How to Use heavy lifting in a Sentence

heavy lifting

noun
  • Third, a lot of the heavy lifting will be done by the iPhone 14 Max.
    Gordon Kelly, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2022
  • In fact, the mentee should be doing a lot of the heavy lifting.
    Gracey Cantalupo, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Virgo moons do most of the heavy lifting for the rest of us.
    Glamour, 31 May 2022
  • In the end, as is so often the case, the Americans and the British did the heavy lifting.
    The Editors, National Review, 12 Jan. 2024
  • There will be weeks when the offense will be asked to do the heavy lifting.
    Dan Labbe, cleveland, 10 Sep. 2023
  • In the second quarter of 2020, Big Tech did the heavy lifting.
    Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 15 July 2022
  • But [Brittany Snow] does most of the heavy lifting there.
    Evan Romano, Men's Health, 21 Oct. 2022
  • Lucky for you, Women's Health did all the heavy lifting.
    Olivia Evans, Women's Health, 11 July 2023
  • Expect some of the heavy lifting to take place behind the scenes.
    Helene Elliott, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2023
  • But a lot of the heavy lifting in terms of building this thing was the three of us with band input.
    Ron Hart, SPIN, 3 Oct. 2022
  • And, looking to the future, AI could also help with some of the heavy lifting.
    Barnaby Lashbrooke, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
  • A lot of the heavy lifting was being done very quickly.
    Ian Gotts, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Thomas did the heavy lifting in the morning, when the wind was raging and limbs were swaying.
    Doug Ferguson, Chicago Tribune, 21 May 2022
  • The pop up is a lot of work, a lot to coordinate, lots of heavy lifting.
    Amber Love Bond, Forbes, 7 Jan. 2023
  • Yet much of the heavy lifting was done by Orton and Orton alone.
    Matthew Richards, Chicago Tribune, 7 Nov. 2022
  • Sanogo did most of the heavy lifting, capping the run with a ferocious dunk.
    Akeem Glaspie, The Indianapolis Star, 18 Dec. 2022
  • And the ones that are in the position to do the heavy lifting, the ones that risk life and limb out there on the football field are the players.
    Mirjam Swanson, Orange County Register, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Meanwhile, Nick Chubb and Kareem Hunt did the heavy lifting.
    Dan Labbe, cleveland, 11 Sep. 2022
  • What happens [to] the original gangsters who did a lot of the heavy lifting?
    David Viramontes, Los Angeles Times, 23 Nov. 2022
  • My partners were going to be doing most of the heavy lifting.
    Emma Balter, Chron, 13 July 2022
  • The sets did a lot of the heavy lifting, so even the flatter segments still stirred fond memories.
    The New York Times, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2024
  • This machine does all of the heavy lifting in the form of deep-keading, compression, and heat.
    Roxanne Adamiyatt, Town & Country, 15 Nov. 2022
  • The art and artists do the heavy lifting while the curators, among them an Aussie comic, go trite and tiresome.
    Brian T. Allen, National Review, 15 June 2023
  • But taking the effort wider will need some heavy lifting.
    Kevin Fagan, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Jessie said in 2018 that doing squats and heavy lifting has helped transform her body.
    Korin Miller, Women's Health, 15 June 2023
  • Instead, let the data and discovery do the heavy lifting for you.
    Zachary Hardison, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2022
  • The assistant city clerk, who reports to the city manager, does the heavy lifting.
    East Bay Times Editorial, The Mercury News, 13 Jan. 2024
  • Ideally, cheese obsessives should have two sets of cheese knives: one to show off for guests, and one to stay in the kitchen and do the heavy lifting.
    Devra Ferst, Bon Appétit, 10 Nov. 2023
  • The top helps keep tootsies cozy while the bottoms do the heavy lifting, removing dirt and debris from floors as the wearer walks about the house.
    Cailey Lindberg and Brigitt Earley, Good Housekeeping, 6 Dec. 2022
  • But that car’s massive V12 does most of the heavy lifting, not its three electric motors and tiny 3.8-kWh battery pack.
    WIRED, 6 Sep. 2023

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