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How to use heave in a sentence

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The firemen did heave a sigh of relief after pulling the deer out, but did not settle down and relax.
I once caught a scarf in a lift door as it closed and only just managed to heave it free and save myself from a gruesome end.
Philander then dances down the track, aims an agricultural heave and is stumped!
There was no jugular venous distension, murmur, rub, gallop, thrill, or heave.
With a sigh and a heave, she lifted herself up and meandered over to the filing cabinet.
Nik missed a heave at the buzzer and the Wildcats rushed off the bench and dogpiled Harrison at midcourt.
Each kid was handed a football and told to huck it, heave it as far as you can.
Shouting a victory cry, he gave one mighty heave and shoe, worm, and fish flew from the water in a perfect arc over his boat.
She raced to the elevators, only to heave a sigh of relief once she was ensconced safely inside.
We kids used to say that it was the only vehicle that had the room within into which he could heave his bulky porcine body.
I gave the stick a mighty heave and it swung out in a beautiful, soaring arc.
Half a dozen tree lined boulevards criss-cross the city with French elegance and the streets through the middle heave with traffic of all kinds.
So gathering all the strength he had he gave a mighty heave and broke the chain about his neck.
But as she did so, the ship gave a mighty heave and tossed both young adults backward onto the floor.
The saturated wetland deposits are susceptible to frost heave and subsequent damage to structures.
Patios can also be built with a thickened edge, although frost heave may affect these slabs.
He's a contradiction in that his jump shot, an awkward heave off his right shoulder, is fundamentally flawed.
A loose covering of coarse straw will help prevent frost heave during the winter.
Dad came out of the house with garbage and walked past, carrying the white bag a good twenty feet to heave it into the dumpster.
I finally succeeded unbolting the gate at last and with big heave of satisfaction I turned to the little boy.
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She had a deckload of it, and she'd heave it overboard every time the wind changed.
You have never seen the mighty deep, and the storms that heave and swell in it.
A Vesuvian explosion seemed to heave in his capacious bosom, and found vent in a furious roar.
Then we were able to modify that to heave sand and to let it tap the ionosphere.
They were just getting aboard of the iceboat when they saw another craft heave in sight.
And when the stagecoach came in she would stand with her apron full of horse-chestnuts, and heave 'em at the passengers.
Then there was a concerted heave and the ground tackle broke loose and came up with a rush.
She was quite flushed, and her bodice, generally so still and lifeless, began to heave.
He could see her breast and shoulders heave and twist, and contort in a fury of effort.
If that critter fell overboard I wouldn't heave him no life-preserver.
The bight of the pack-rope under the dead man's shoulders enabled him to heave the body out of the hole.
The heave of the main ocean on the great sandbank out in the bay, was a heave that made no sound.
He would come, and we would heave him overboard, or get killed trying.
But they need a fellow to heave mud, so they put up with him.
I'll heave up my commission and you pay her the fifteen hundred.
The heave and the halt and the hurl and the crash of the comber wind-hounded?
Canst tell a ship's topmast from a squirrel if one should heave in sight?
Well, it was noble to see Launcelot and the boys swarm up onto that scaffold and heave sheriffs and such overboard.
Which two of all these females did they mean to heave into the vasty deep?
We went to work for ten hours on end, laying out anchors in readiness to heave off at high water.
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