heavy lifting

noun

: a burdensome or laborious duty

Examples of heavy lifting in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Stories were told in chapters the length of an SMS message, meaning that in each installment, writers had about 70-100 words at their disposal and, critically, carte blanche on their arrangement (line breaks and ellipses did a lot of heavy lifting). — Literary Hub, 13 July 2026

The blocks between 42nd and 49th Streets do most of the heavy lifting for a Broadway show visit. — Lauren Schuster, Kansas City Star, 13 July 2026

Wrobleski’s four-seam fastball and slider have done the heavy lifting. — Maddie Lee, Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2026

Contreras also began reshaping his workouts to focus less on heavy lifting and more on agility, power and explosion along with rotational movements. — Jen McCaffrey, New York Times, 9 July 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1980, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for heavy lifting

• drifting
• gifting
• rifting
• shifting
• sifting
• shoplifting
• uplifting