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heave
verb as in lift, throw with effort
Example Sentences
For now, let’s celebrate the end of the most vexing, mean-spirited and household-dividing presidential election in modern times, as it heaves itself across the finish line and crumples in a lousy heap.
Love was attempting to throw the ball away to avoid a sack and a safety, heaving the ball blindly and into McCollough’s arms near the goal line.
Check the base of the hill; if the ground is heaved up, that’s a sign of movement.
None are desirable — especially the one involving heaving something other than a baseball — yet the former Sherman Oaks Notre Dame High star is a serious Cy Young Award contender in his third major league season.
The downstairs room at the club heaved with Ciaran's family and friends, including some who had come as far as Cornwall to support him.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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