heavy with
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: carrying or having a large amount of (something)
The trees are heavy with fruit.
Her comments were heavy with irony.
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Outside, an edible garden heavy with rhubarb and herbs feeds the on-site restaurant Juliette, while firepits and hammocks tuck beneath the long branches of a 200-year-old willow tree.
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Carrie Honaker, Travel + Leisure, 5 June 2025
Much of Boy Blue’s previous work was darkly dramatic, heavy with messaging.
—Sheldon Pearce, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2025
The coop is empty and cavernous, the air still heavy with the stench of chicken waste.
—Suzy Khimm, NBC news, 21 Mar. 2025
The plan was to go heavy with his four-seam fastball trying to get the Giants, who put the ball in the air a lot, to pop up.
—Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 May 2025
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Carrie Honaker, Travel + Leisure, 5 June 2025
Much of Boy Blue’s previous work was darkly dramatic, heavy with messaging.
—Sheldon Pearce, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2025
The coop is empty and cavernous, the air still heavy with the stench of chicken waste.
—Suzy Khimm, NBC news, 21 Mar. 2025
The plan was to go heavy with his four-seam fastball trying to get the Giants, who put the ball in the air a lot, to pop up.
—Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 May 2025
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“Heavy with.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/heavy%20with. Accessed 17 Jun. 2025.
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