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Example sentences for "heaviness"

Lexicographically close words:
heavie; heavier; heavies; heaviest; heavily; heaving; heavings; heaviside; heavy; heavyweight
  1. Joe, who had once come to Frankfort to seek Boone's aid in curbing the violence of Gregory wrath, was going through the capital now on another mission, and he made no effort to conceal his heaviness of heart.

  2. Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad.

  3. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.

  4. Was it the heaviness in the feet, or the lightness in the head, or was it the twitching of the eyelid which Mr. Frabelle used to suffer from?

  5. You know that sort of emptiness in the feet, and heaviness in the head, and that curious kind of twitching of the eyelids that I get?

  6. For a brief space he forgot his sorrowful errand; then it came back to him with its heaviness redoubled by the contrast.

  7. Was it possible that she had felt the charm in this man who was already middle-aged, who was satisfied with the mere concrete form of life, and in whose eyes she could see now the heaviness which grows through self-indulgence?

  8. Then a pleased smile chased the heaviness from his eyes, for he remembered suddenly that he held a firm grip on the promising Chericoke Valley Central stock.

  9. As he closed the door to her room behind him, his eyes burned and there was an aching heaviness in his chest.

  10. He felt the heaviness in his groin and the lightness in his stomach that always accompanied his visits to women when he had done without pleasure for a long time.

  11. A heaviness in the air called forth a dampness from within his flesh.

  12. Was not the Apostle Paul himself a citizen of the heavenly Jerusalem, and was he not so all the more when he had heaviness and continual sorrow of heart for his Israelitish brethren?

  13. Heaviness had suddenly come over me, heaviness of heart, and of body also.

  14. And what pen could tell of his heaviness of heart, and great shame in that he had thrashed a girl.

  15. But before she could satisfactorily arrange her question a great heaviness settled down upon her, and her head nodded and her eyes blinked and blinked and fell too.

  16. I no longer feel in common with you; the very cloud which I see beneath me, the blackness and heaviness at which I laugh--that is your thunder-cloud.

  17. And much heaviness settled on his mind, so that he walked slowly and always more slowly, and at last stood still.

  18. Riminild the maiden is in sore heaviness of spirit, bewailing herself day and night, for on Sunday next she is to be married to a King.

  19. Howbeit Sir Guy would not reveal himself, and Sir Thierry being faint and weary, laid his head upon Sir Guy's knees, and so great a heaviness came over him that he fell asleep.

  20. And that came very hard on Lir, and there was heaviness on his mind after her.

  21. She was as a widow, and yet she was an innocent maiden, full of experience and inexperience, feeling the heaviness of the evening shadows, and yet still in the age of splendour in the grass and glory in the flower.

  22. It went to her heart and dispersed all her heaviness and stupor, and opened the great sealed fountains.

  23. Glyn's heart sank with disappointment, for there was no heaviness about the belt, and he stood waiting now as the winch was steadily turned and the bucket began to rise.

  24. That same evening Singh went down the town to relieve his feelings and the heaviness of one of his pockets, for the day before both he and Glyn had received letters from the Colonel with their monthly allowance.

  25. Heaviness may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning," is no discovery of yesterday.

  26. The robe, again, in its voluminous and snaky coils, and the triangular nimbus of the Deity, convey an effect of heaviness rather than of majesty.

  27. I carried home with me a heaviness of feeling and great restlessness and a fear as if something unknown was threatening me.

  28. There is no heaviness on my eyelids,--I write, and recall memories.

  29. The old care and heaviness was back on his face once more, from the burden of which he had had such a brief respite.

  30. Afer; 'the heaviness of this listless isle is insupportable.

  31. A pleasant breeze from the Jersey shore greeted him with a quickening whisper of springtime and romance, but it did not lift the heaviness of his heart.

  32. The dull heaviness which was the legacy of the Dry-Salters' dinner had begun to change to something more actively unpleasant.

  33. Indeed, what with the lightness of my head and the heaviness of my heart, it took me some time to get upstairs and to bed.

  34. My gamesome temper had soon left me, and I have no words for a description of the heaviness which followed.

  35. They liberated European painting from the heaviness of matter, and rendered it tender and delicate.

  36. And he is as far from gross material heaviness as from academical sterility.

  37. Mason divests them of all the heaviness of earth, takes, as it were, only the flower-dust from reality.

  38. Where there is a delightful subtlety of fleeting nuances in nature, an oppressive opaque heaviness is found in this modern Caravaggio of Franche-Comte.

  39. Even in the colouring of the naked figures it has still the dirty heaviness of the Bolognese.

  40. Where there is a classic quietude and an oily heaviness in Millet, there is in Pissarro palpitating life, transparence, and freshness.

  41. The heaviness of matter is overcome, the absurd pretence of reality not attempted.

  42. He was a serious, almost painfully earnest, but absolutely healthy-minded man of sterling worth, brave and honourable, with a little of the heaviness of the German about him and much of the liveliness of the Frenchman.

  43. In the history of sculpture came a period when, irritated by the heaviness of stone, sculptors endeavoured to compel it to express lightness and airiness; or else, like the mannerists of the rococo period, imitated the art of the painter.

  44. I nearly fell asleep of heaviness of spirit last night over my writing.

  45. During this long interval of years the Duke had lost all his heaviness of build.

  46. And heaviness and grief came upon Math, and much more upon Gwydion than upon him.


  47. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "heaviness" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    apathy; avoirdupois; barbarism; bathos; beef; boredom; cacophony; coarseness; covering; deadness; deadweight; drowsiness; dryness; dullness; emptiness; ennui; fatigue; gravity; greatness; harshness; hebetude; heft; impropriety; impurity; inanity; indifference; infelicity; languor; lassitude; lethargy; listlessness; net; overweight; paleness; pallor; passivity; pathos; phlegm; poundage; pregnancy; roughness; rudeness; sitting; sleepiness; sloth; slowness; solemnity; somnolence; sterility; stiffness; stretching; stuffiness; stupor; superficiality; tenacity; thickening; thickness; tonnage; torpor; toughness; underweight; viscosity; vulgarism; vulgarity; weariness; overweight; paleness; pallor; passivity; pathos; phlegm; poundage; pregnancy; roughness; rudeness; sitting; sleepiness; sloth; slowness; solemnity; somnolence; sterility; stiffness; stretching; stuffiness; stupor; superficiality; tenacity; thickening; thickness; tonnage; torpor; toughness; underweight; viscosity; vulgarism; vulgarity; weariness; yawning