Heaving Sentence Examples

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  • He sighed deeply, his whole chest heaving, and was silent for a while.

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  • She skidded to a halt, chest heaving.

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  • Heaving occurs when soil freezes, then thaws.

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  • Chest heaving, Dusty lowered the two-handed sword he'd been using to hack apart one of the practice dummies in the back of the command center.

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  • Blinded, she tripped over a stool and hauled herself into a corner, chest heaving and body slick with sweat and blood.

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  • The buoy was then redeployed in exactly the same spot several hours later, without the heaving line!

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  • They cover stabilization and reduction of waste sludge, and stabilization of residue ground from heaving.

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  • The others agreed and Gieve soon vanished into the heaving throng.

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  • In some cases the ship should be helped round by slacking away on the after warp whilst heaving on the fore warp.

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  • The count listened with closed eyes, heaving abrupt sighs at certain passages.

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  • The buoy was then redeployed in exactly the same spot several hours later, without the heaving line !

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  • Mulch not only keeps moisture near the roots of plants, but it prevents heaving of soil around the base of clematis plants.

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  • She wiped her mouth again and flung the rag against the wall, chest heaving.

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  • Tymkyn, the best tracker in the underworld, stood behind him, hands clasped and chest heaving.

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  • She lay with her hands and head across his chest heaving painful, soul-shattering sobs.

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  • It couldn't make him hurt any more than he did, legs aching and breath heaving as he struggled higher and higher up the Rockies.

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  • This yearning is a dumb unintelligent longing, which moves like a heaving sea in obedience to some dark and indefinite law, and is powerless to fashion anything in permanence.

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  • As fast as Kris ran, he couldn't catch her.  He grew more baffled when she seemed to pull ahead of him without any sign of the exhaustion she'd showed when they stopped.  Desperation could motivate, and so could fear for her sister.  He pushed himself harder to catch her.  Thunder boomed overhead.  Forms he assumed were demons swooped above the canopy, casting shadows.  He caught glimpses of fur and wings through leaves and ran until his chest was heaving.  Hannah remained ahead of him, though he realized he was beginning to gain on her.  He had to reach her before the demons did and swept her away, as they had Kiki.

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  • Not that I looked at her taut heaving bosom or anything like that.

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  • He saw the breasts heave, and the flowers shake with the heaving, and marveled what should so much discompose the girl.

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  • Chest heaving, he gazed around the meat locker to assess how many bodies were present.

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  • Chest heaving, he dropped the machete from his hand as he realized what he.d done.

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  • When this has been done an electrical test is applied, and if the original fracture is between ship and shore the heaving in of cable will continue until the end comes on board.

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  • What sportsmen! and as if scorning to say more to the frightened and shamefaced count, he lashed the heaving flanks of his sweating chestnut gelding with all the anger the count had aroused and flew off after the hounds.

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