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How to use heavily in a sentence

40 example sentences · adverb

Heavily means with a great weight. Example: “She fell heavily into bed.”

Examples of heavily by meaning

adverbWith a great weight.

  • She fell heavily into bed.
  • He clomped heavily up the stairs in his boots.
  • The great clod trod heavily on my toes!

adverbTo a considerable degree, to a great extent.

  • He relied heavily on the data collected by the others.
  • Your advice still weighs heavily with me.
  • This problem weighs heavily on my mind.

adverbIn a manner designed for heavy duty.

  • heavily armed soldiers; heavily armoured tanks; heavily reinforced walls
  • Just under the ceiling there were three lunette windows, heavily barred and blacked out in the normal way by centuries of grime.1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 14, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC

adverbSo as to be thick or heavy.

  • heavily built young men; his heavily muscled arms

adverbIn a laboured manner.

  • he breathed heavily

More sentences with heavily

  • The criteria governing the choice of candidate were heavily weighted in his favor.From the entry weight
  • When the car crashed into a house, the driver was heavily injured.From the entry crash
  • Her father told her to phone him to pick her up in case it started raining heavily.From the entry phone
  • She decided the eggnog was lacking in flavor, so she decided to nutmeg it heavily.From the entry nutmeg
  • He has this irksome habit of racing up to red lights, so he has to brake heavily.From the entry irksome
  • Michael's heavily whiskered face hadn't seen a razor in some days.From the entry whiskered
  • The law firm relied heavily on Charlotte as its main rainmaker to bring in new clients.From the entry rainmaker
  • The reporter drew heavily on interviews with former members of the secretive group.From the entry draw on
  • The special forces operating in the area were relying heavily on night vision and smart weapon systems.From the entry night vision
  • We need to cut back heavily on office supplies. Is there another vendor we can use?From the entry cut back
  • The newly-appointed border czar is expected to heavily curtail illegal immigration.From the entry border czar
  • The convenience store was a heavily travelled point in her daily orbit, as she purchased both cigarettes and lottery tickets there.From the entry orbit
  • She's really heavily into Shakespeare right now.From the entry into
  • Coventry twinned with Dresden as an act of peace and reconciliation, both cities having been heavily bombed during the war.From the entry twin
  • The ship is listing heavily to one side.From the entry listing
  • The man was so heavily tattooed that it was almost impossible to find any bare skin on his body.From the entry tattooed
  • The region depends heavily on forestry for employment.From the entry forestry
  • The wind blew fiercely and the rain fell heavily.From the entry fiercely
  • The claim that when you have a cold, drinking heavily will get rid of it is just a mythconception.From the entry mythconception
  • Certain routes of the city are heavily jammed.From the entry jammed
  • He was heavily criticised for his bullish behaviour.From the entry bullish
  • The student celebrated his exam success by drinking heavily and finally was arrested for being drunk and disorderly.From the entry drunk and disorderly
  • Our tobaccos are heavily dutied in England, Sweden, France, and prohibited in Spain and Portugal. — Thomas Jefferson.From the entry dutied
  • The heavily discounted initial engine sales were offset by the follow-on sales of engines and highly profitable spare parts.From the entry follow-on
  • They have her training new hires pretty heavily, and the rampant skill issues are shaking her faith in the educational system.From the entry skill issue
  • The crown jewels in the United Kingdom are heavily guarded and anyone trying to steal them will certainly have a hard time.From the entry crown jewels
  • One of them was a hulking brute of a man, heavily tattooed and with a hardened face that practically screamed "I just got out of jail."From the entry brute
  • Companies that are well known advertise heavily and have attention-getting ads that tend to receive the highest top of mind awareness scores in ad tracking studies.From the entry top of mind awareness
  • Leaving from my home in Alameda, the heavily BART-assisted journey took fewer than five hours round trip.2026 May 7, Peter Hartlaub, “This former Bay Area rail line is a biking paradise. And you don’t need a car to get there”, in San Francisco…. From the entry fewer
  • Corsica was heavily tuscanized in the Middle Ages, during which native vocabulary may have been lost.2025, Cid Swanenvleugel, The Pre-Roman Elements of the Sardinian Lexicon, page 520. From the entry Tuscanize

Meaning of heavily

  1. adverb With a great weight.
  2. adverb To a considerable degree, to a great extent.
  3. adverb In a manner designed for heavy duty.

Full definition of heavily

Questions about heavily in a sentence

How do you use heavily in a sentence?
Heavily is used as an adverb. For example: “She fell heavily into bed.”
What is a short sentence with heavily?
“he breathed heavily”
What does heavily mean?
Heavily means with a great weight.

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