How to Use heave in a Sentence

heave

1 of 2 verb
Definition of heavenext
Synonyms for heavenext
  • She heaved the door shut.
  • The quarterback heaved the ball down the field.
  • She sat down and heaved a sigh of relief.
  • The boat heaved back and forwards, and the wind moaned outside.
    — Laurie Hertzel, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2023
  • Sabonis snared the pass, twisted and heaved a shot to tie the game.
    — oregonlive, 10 Jan. 2020
  • Then as now, the days heave with smoke and apocalypse, the howl of sirens.
    — Jason Parham, Wired, 22 Sep. 2020
  • Split any citrus, pop them in the device, then heave down on the lever to see the juice flow.
    — Brittney Morgan and Medgina Saint-Elien, House Beautiful, 25 July 2022
  • Smith caught an inbounds pass beyond the top of the key and heaved in a 28-footer to win the game.
    — Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al, 8 July 2023
  • Play golf, try your hand at archery, or grab an axe and heave it at the target.
    — Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 22 Aug. 2021
  • His hands told the story: swollen knuckles and chafed skin, hands used to lift and to heave and to haul.
    — New York Times, 13 Oct. 2021
  • With Hopkins heaving the ball to the right side from the 28, White jumped for the pick and returned it 27 yards to ice the game.
    — George Henry, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Oct. 2019
  • Minutes later, the heaving line secured to the tower, the six men climbed down the rope to the Vestal.
    — Shaun McKinnon, USA TODAY, 18 Feb. 2020
  • At the edge of a bed of kelp in Monterey Bay, Hazan and two other staffers heaved the crates to the edge of the boat.
    — Dino Grandoni and Melina Mara, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Sep. 2023
  • Wanting to avoid a safety, Jessee, off the ground and in the grips of a defender, heaved a pass.
    — Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Alon, his brother, and their father heaved their weight against the door frame, as the invaders pushed back.
    — Ruth Margalit, The New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2023
  • Ehlinger faked a handoff to Roschon Johnson, rolled right, planted and heaved the ball all the way back across the field.
    — Nick Moyle, ExpressNews.com, 5 Oct. 2019
  • The children often spent days below deck in the dark, waiting out storms while the boat pitched and heaved.
    — Laurie Hertzel, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2023
  • Behind the announcer’s booth, freight trains heave back and forth, betraying the truth of the land.
    — Jose A. Del Real, Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2022
  • The creation heaved salt in its early days, but the kitchen team has since found its way to balance with this one.
    — Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2023
  • The Pioneers forced Wilt to punt out of his own end zone with 6:32 to play and a low snap forced him to heave the ball down field.
    — Hartford Courant, 1 Oct. 2022
  • The 7-foot-1 junior chased it down in mid-air, took a dribble, turned from 30 feet out and heaved the ball as the clock expired.
    — Tony Garcia, Detroit Free Press, 26 Feb. 2023
  • Pinned beneath the beast, the bloody young officer heaves himself to his feet and carries on with the siege.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 15 Nov. 2023
  • With little chance of preventing a run, Duran heaved a throw to the plate.
    — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 4 June 2023
  • With no other choice, Benjamin then heaved the ball into the end zone to no avail.
    — Michelle Gardner, azcentral, 18 Nov. 2019
  • The road heaved, and the bus emerged from a gap in an escarpment into a parched emptiness of plain that stretched to the end of vision.
    — Michael Powell, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2019
  • Some men helped Estrada heave the tub into the back of her 1974 Chevrolet truck.
    — Los Angeles Times, 22 July 2022
  • The thriller was secured when 6-foot-9 big man Maurice Lucas briefly lost the ball and then heaved up a 20-footer that went in at the buzzer.
    — Jr Radcliffe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 25 Apr. 2020
  • The freeze-and-thaw cycle of late winter also can crack soil and heave shallow roots up.
    — Beth Botts, Chicago Tribune, 24 July 2022
  • Without any timeouts, Malik Beasley was left to heave a shot from 74 feet that fell way short at the horn for the T-Wolves (4-9).
    — Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic, 17 Nov. 2021
  • The windows stay black and phlegmatic as the air outside begins to heave with rain.
    — Colin Channer, The New Yorker, 9 Nov. 2020
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heave

2 of 2 noun
  • He gave the rope a mighty heave.
  • We lifted the box onto the table with a heave.
  • The quarterback uncorked a mighty heave.
  • Boum got a half-court heave at the buzzer that clanked off the back iron.
    — Adam Baum, The Enquirer, 11 Feb. 2023
  • Matt Ryan threw up a wild heave at the shot-clock buzzer.
    — Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2022
  • The Wolverines' full-court heave at the buzzer went over the backboard.
    — San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Mar. 2023
  • The new legs reflect the need to deal with the pitch and heave of a barge landing.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 18 Aug. 2023
  • JP Moorman’s 65-foot heave at the buzzer was one of 14 treys the Highlanders hit in the game.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Nov. 2021
  • But Jackson’s half-court heave at the buzzer did not fall.
    — Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2022
  • Brown went up to catch the 39-yard heave and won a battle for the ball with Fitzpatrick.
    — Arkansas Online, 31 Oct. 2022
  • The Cougars had one last chance, but a halfcourt heave by Bamgboye was off the mark.
    — Glenn Graham, baltimoresun.com, 2 Mar. 2022
  • From here, this all looks like one big Hail Mary heave — 2nd and 26 inside the Beltway.
    — Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al, 7 June 2023
  • Amazingly, the lead was cut to one on the Lakhin heave but the clock showed under a second to play.
    — Scott Springer, The Enquirer, 26 Feb. 2023
  • Cleveland, a freshman, had just enough time to catch, turn and get off a long-range heave.
    — Scott Gleeson, USA TODAY, 26 Feb. 2022
  • How about a 60-yard heave from Mayfield to Peoples-Jones.
    — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 7 Nov. 2021
  • The Jaguars had one last prayer, but Javon Franklin’s three-quarter-court heave came nowhere as the buzzer sounded.
    — Creg Stephenson | Cstephenson@al.com, al, 28 Mar. 2022
  • Mike Sainristil made a stunning catch on a 48-yard heave down the middle of the field.
    — Michael Cohen, Detroit Free Press, 9 Oct. 2021
  • Johnson started with a cross-body heave that set up a score.
    — Nick Alvarez | Nalvarez@al.com, al, 12 Nov. 2021
  • The lead would change hands 10 more times down the stretch, the last of those off Cleveland’s desperation heave.
    — Tim Reynolds, Sun Sentinel, 25 Feb. 2023
  • The walls of the place heave and breathe like a living thing when point guard Wendell Green, Jr., lobs an alley-oop.
    — Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al, 20 Jan. 2022
  • But Diogo Seixas’ full-court heave was wide left, and the Aztecs had dodged what would have been their worst loss in many, many moons.
    — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Jan. 2024
  • After the ball twice went out of bounds, Portage missed a heave from midcourt as time expired.
    — Michael Osipoff, chicagotribune.com, 8 Jan. 2022
  • Houston’s last chance, fittingly, was a half-court heave from Brooks that would’ve stolen the game.
    — Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 20 Nov. 2023
  • Cook’s half-court heave at the buzzer sailed high off the backboard, and Auburn survived another gut check on the road.
    — Tom Green | Tgreen@al.com, al, 5 Feb. 2022
  • Gilmore dove into the air and sent Blake Bortles’ last-second heave into the turf.
    — Sportsday Staff, Dallas News, 15 Mar. 2023
  • The fake trophy heave caused Farrell and his son Henry, 13, to erupt in laughter.
    — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 13 Mar. 2023
  • But his three-pointer heave in the final seconds did not land.
    — Andrew Greif, Los Angeles Times, 8 Dec. 2021
  • But Crouser responded with a heave of 75-3¼ to move back into the lead.
    — oregonlive, 17 July 2022
  • For investors, that means buckling down and readying for the heave-ho of stormy seas and mixed returns for a few months yet.
    — Q.ai - Powering A Personal Wealth Movement, Forbes, 11 Nov. 2022
  • At the first-quarter buzzer, Jae Crowder took what Doncic thought was a hack on his half-court heave.
    — Dallas News, 5 May 2022

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