How to Use heavy with in a Sentence

heavy with

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  • Crisp air hangs heavy with the promise of rain.
    Christina Fang, Travel + Leisure, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Late in the season, the trees are still heavy with fruit.
    Shaun McKinnon, AZCentral.com, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Outside, the air was heavy with the smell of smoke and death.
    Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, 10 Oct. 2023
  • The sun had started to sink in the sky, which was heavy with light.
    Karl Ove Knausgaard, Harpers Magazine, 29 Apr. 2025
  • Your words are heavy with mood, Virgo.
    Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 7 Oct. 2025
  • The rise and fall of my chest was heavy with the dull ache of a broken heart.
    Nora Walsh, Travel + Leisure, 21 Sep. 2024
  • But in a moment this heavy with emotion and rage, few moves are safe.
    Aaron Gregg, Washington Post, 14 Oct. 2023
  • However, that leaves just two spots on a team heavy with wings and guards.
    Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Our dear Iryna left this world far too soon, and our hearts are heavy with grief.
    Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, FOXNews.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The fish was a seven-pound female, heavy with eggs, that took the lure five feet down.
    Anthony A. Ciuffa, Outdoor Life, 7 Aug. 2025
  • The high court is in the midst of a term heavy with social media issues.
    Mark Sherman, Fortune, 18 Mar. 2024
  • In the backyard, an orange tree hangs heavy with overripe fruit.
    Zoë Bernard, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2023
  • Rain could be heavy with a few claps of thunder and winds again look to gust over 40 mph.
    Ashley Smith and Steve Horstmeyer, The Enquirer, 9 Jan. 2024
  • The green tree outside my window grew white overnight, heavy with blossoms.
    Grady Chambers, The Atlantic, 1 Nov. 2023
  • The coop is empty and cavernous, the air still heavy with the stench of chicken waste.
    Suzy Khimm, NBC news, 21 Mar. 2025
  • The words hang in the air, heavy with implication.
    Bryan West, USA Today, 12 Dec. 2025
  • This range is chock full of towering peaks, bowls, and forest, heavy with snow.
    Brent Rose, Outside, 28 Feb. 2026
  • The starting pitching is not just top heavy with an ace doing the heavy lifting.
    Larry Fleisher, Forbes.com, 29 May 2025
  • And across from that, a peach tree, heavy with small roundish puffs that in the fresco symbolize old age.
    Mark Schapiro, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Oct. 2024
  • Then something shifts, becomes heavy with intent.
    Literary Hub, 14 Apr. 2026
  • This is a Christmas aesthetic that is heavy with mood, just like you.
    Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 18 Dec. 2025
  • The chef’s knife was a standout for being nice and heavy with an easy to grip rubber handle.
    Cai Cramer, Peoplemag, 20 Apr. 2023
  • And while this draft is heavy with talent at tight end, the receiver group might see four go in the first round.
    Calvin Watkins, Dallas News, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Pancho had a broad brass collar, heavy with pointed studs, such as bulldogs wear.
    Frank C. Hibben, Outdoor Life, 15 July 2026
  • In springtime, there are trees heavy with fruit blossoms and bright yellow rapeseed fields.
    Hannah Howard, Travel + Leisure, 17 May 2025
  • At dusk, the sky was heavy with wildfire smoke that had blown down from New Jersey.
    Antonia Hitchens, New Yorker, 15 June 2025
  • In mid-May the air is heavy with tree pollen, and the leaves are still unfolding, still bright, still soft.
    Verlyn Klinkenborg, The New York Review of Books, 6 July 2022
  • They will still be run heavy with Jonathan Taylor, but Ryan can make the big plays.
    Scott Horner, The Indianapolis Star, 6 Sep. 2022
  • Unlike turf grass, many varieties of moss thrive in shade and acidic soils that are compact and heavy with clay.
    Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Apr. 2026
  • The drumming clashed, the chants overlapped, the air hung heavy with incense — and yet no one was confused.
    Vibhas Ratanjee, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025

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