heavy with
idiom
: carrying or having a large amount of (something)
The trees are heavy with fruit.
Her comments were heavy with irony.
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At dusk, the sky was heavy with wildfire smoke that had blown down from New Jersey.
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Antonia Hitchens, New Yorker, 15 June 2025
The starting pitching is not just top heavy with an ace doing the heavy lifting.
—Larry Fleisher, Forbes.com, 29 May 2025
In springtime, there are trees heavy with fruit blossoms and bright yellow rapeseed fields.
—Hannah Howard, Travel + Leisure, 17 May 2025
Ser Gareth ignored him, scanning the treeline where the ancient sentinels stood like silent watchers, their branches heavy with snow that had fallen three days past and showed no sign of melting.
—Kelsey Piper, Vox, 12 May 2025
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Antonia Hitchens, New Yorker, 15 June 2025
The starting pitching is not just top heavy with an ace doing the heavy lifting.
—Larry Fleisher, Forbes.com, 29 May 2025
In springtime, there are trees heavy with fruit blossoms and bright yellow rapeseed fields.
—Hannah Howard, Travel + Leisure, 17 May 2025
Ser Gareth ignored him, scanning the treeline where the ancient sentinels stood like silent watchers, their branches heavy with snow that had fallen three days past and showed no sign of melting.
—Kelsey Piper, Vox, 12 May 2025
See All Example Sentences for heavy with
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“Heavy with.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/heavy%20with. Accessed 15 Jul. 2025.
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