How to Use heavily in a Sentence

heavily

adverb

• He sat down heavily on the couch.
• She drank and smoked heavily for years.
• He was leaning heavily on the table.
• Our flowers were heavily damaged by a late spring frost.
• He relies heavily on his wife for advice.
• These artists borrow heavily from Picasso.
• At least a dozen states have moved to ban or heavily restrict abortions since Dobbs.
  — Adela Suliman, Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2023
• Newark is a tough city, and Prudential has stuck with it and invested pretty heavily in it.
  — Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 17 Mar. 2023
• Officers who responded to the crash arrived to find the two vehicles heavily damaged in the center of the road.
  — Adam Sennott, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Mar. 2023
• Musk’s approach to leadership has been heavily criticized, of course, but far from everyone is dismissing it out of hand.
  — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 2 Mar. 2023
• As its civil space program collapses, Russia has been heavily investing in its military one.
  — WIRED, 20 Mar. 2023
• Harris has leaned heavily on presenting Trump as unstable, unhinged, and dictatorial in the final weeks of the campaign.
  — W. James Antle Iii, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 5 Nov. 2024
• Trump supporters voted heavily on Election Day in 2020.
  — W. James Antle Iii, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 4 Nov. 2024
• The Knicks must now lean heavily on Robinson to shoulder the load at the five.
  — Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 1 July 2024
• The group was featured heavily on a day where the heat was at the forefront of a lot of minds in Owings Mills.
  — Timothy Dashiell, Baltimore Sun, 28 July 2023
• Most likely, the cold has heavily damaged your sea grape and may be dead to the ground.
  — Tom MacCubbin, Orlando Sentinel, 25 Mar. 2023
• Of course, the global wine list focuses heavily on rosé — what the South of France is known for.
  — Kaitlyn McInnis, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
• In this case, the small buy was heavily justified as the stock fell like a rock thrown out of the Empire State Building.
  — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 29 Sep. 2024
• At the show, the first and last hour is open to networking, which is heavily emphasized throughout the night.
  — Okla Jones, Essence, 4 Jan. 2024
• Back then, the Tigers had recruited Texas players more heavily as a member of the Big 12, which was based in Texas and had four teams in the state.
  — Brent Schrotenboer, USA TODAY, 19 Aug. 2023
• Aiken and Studdard wanted the 20-year tour to lean in heavily into that sense of time travel.
  — Emily Yahr, Washington Post, 23 Nov. 2023
• Rinna constantly stirred the pot on the show, and feuded heavily with Kathy Hilton.
  — Manori Ravindran, Variety, 13 June 2023
• The fabric pilled heavily after the first wash, but the texture and quality of the towel remained the same.
  — Molly Blanco, Better Homes & Gardens, 31 May 2023
• Meistrowitz, who is about to go on parental leave herself, was heavily involved in planning for her time away.
  — Emily McCrary-Ruiz-Esparza, Quartz, 3 May 2023
• This is the first generation of the company's watch to be cleared by the FDA, and it's now heavily discounted.
  — Nena Farrell, WIRED, 22 Nov. 2023
• In the third set, the city’s water tower appears to have been toppled and heavily damaged, amidst a sea of rubble.
  — Samuel Granados, Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2023
• Instead, New World picked up the original and used that heavily.
  — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Apr. 2023
• Down the ballot, the Senate race is tilted heavily in Democrats’ favor, with about 84 cents of every ad dollar on their side of the ledger.
  — Philip Elliott, TIME, 8 Aug. 2024
• In what could be the most intriguing series of the playoffs, the Clippers will have to rely heavily on Leonard, who played in 24 of the team’s final 28 games and is healthy.
  — Gary Washburn, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Apr. 2023
• In Georgia, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution has invested heavily in statewide polling and stationed reporters across the city and state.
  — Brian Stelter, CNN, 5 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 1 Dec 2024