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Example sentences for "heft"

Lexicographically close words:
heereof; heeres; heern; heers; hees; hefted; hefty; hegemony; hegge; heggs
  1. The other gripped the heft of a stone ax, one blow of which would dash to pulp the stoutest skull.

  2. If the handle's gone, I can heft it with green wood.

  3. I gathered that the heft of his spare change had come from dickers in stocks and bonds.

  4. I'd told him the heft of the yarn on the way from the church, and he was interested.

  5. It so happened that the real Carl Heft belonged to another company, and was marked absent on duty at Divisional Headquarters.

  6. Carl Heft was evidently a stenographer, and to the lad's horror he heard a harsh voice calling out the name.

  7. The real Carl Heft was wounded by a shell splinter, and has turned up again over there.

  8. You may hear the roll called out, and they men answer 'Here' as plain as you can wish, at midnight, in the heft of a storm.

  9. It didn't save he even ef she wor, for a big sea rose up, and came thundering down on uz, and he got the full heft of it right upon him, so that it beat the last spunk of life out of him then and there.

  10. He knew the heft and feel of it, and a fresh wave of apprehension swept over him.

  11. This was no proof that he also was there, but some chance had to be taken, and Micky found no slight comfort in the heft of the stout stick in his hand.

  12. The heft of it," said he, "is right down there in Hell Slew.

  13. There the Knight called to one of his men and bade him knock at the porter's lodge with the heft of his sword.

  14. Marry," cried Little John, clapping his palms together for joy, "thy bidding fitteth my liking like heft to blade.

  15. Ef the way a man lights out of this world Helps fix his heft for the other sp'ere, I reckon my old friend Golyer's Ben Will lay over lots of likelier men For one thing he done down here.

  16. He felt that they were capable again of turning the tables on the enemy, despite the fact of their superior heft and experience.

  17. I can heft a pony an' I'm six foot two in my moccasins.

  18. When the time arrives to open the game, the heft of Wolfville's public is gathered at the Red Light.


  19. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "heft" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    avoirdupois; balance; beef; boost; counterbalance; deadweight; elevate; erect; gravity; heave; heft; heighten; hike; hoist; lift; net; overweight; pick; poundage; raise; rear; rise; tonnage; underweight; upheave; uphold; uplift; upraise; weigh; weight