How to Use heavy lifting in a Sentence

heavy lifting

noun

• There's a lot of heavy lifting in Australia when things go wrong.
  — Tim Ellis, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2024
• Tomorrow’s leaders will be left with the heavy lifting of these carbon cuts, and that could be too late.
  — Solitaire Townsend, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2021
• Both songs depend on the other Beatles to do heavy lifting.
  — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 22 Oct. 2021
• The device should do all the heavy lifting and optimize itself in the background to for the user, not the other way around.
  — Steven Aquino, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024
• Sophomore running back Davion Gause has done much of the heavy lifting on offense, and the defense has been stingy.
  — Adam Lichtenstein, sun-sentinel.com, 13 Oct. 2021
• Although the 220-pound Williams was just as happy, when freed in open space, to do the heavy lifting himself.
  — Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 6 Oct. 2024
• With the action part of the action comedy mostly a wash, the comedy and the romance have to do a lot of heavy lifting.
  — Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 12 Sep. 2024
• Though the trek is self-guided, meaning groups hike on their own and at their own pace, owners David and Phebe Novic do all the heavy lifting to make sure the trip is a success.
  — Sarah Kuta, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Oct. 2021
• Stroud looked calm and comfortable last week, picking apart Rutgers with short and intermediate passes, and letting his star receivers do the heavy lifting.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 9 Oct. 2021
• Rather than include contemporary works so that current artists could do the heavy lifting of responding and telling more critical stories, curators wanted the works to speak for themselves.
  — April Wallace, arkansasonline.com, 12 Sep. 2024
• The optional rear-wheel steering system does the heavy lifting, turning the rear wheels opposite to the front wheels, tightening the turning radius under 30 mph.
  — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 6 Oct. 2021
• With a tongue-in-cheek tone and colorful aesthetic, Yars Rising has a pleasant vibe that does a lot of heavy lifting for the areas where the moment-to-moment action is just good enough.
  — Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 10 Sep. 2024
• There is a better quality of depth this time around Bradley Beal, but no one else capable of the heavy lifting achieved by Russell Westbrook at the end of last season.
  — Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 16 Oct. 2021
• 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
• Marte’s out was only the start of the bullpen’s heavy lifting.
  — Doug Padilla, Orange County Register, 28 June 2024
• There still is a lot of heavy lifting to do and the draft to look forward to.
  — Brad Biggs, chicagotribune.com, 23 Mar. 2022
• 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
• Yavuz Gultekin did the heavy lifting on the glass, each pulling down 12 boards.
  — Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Jan. 2022
• Expect some of the heavy lifting to take place behind the scenes.
  — Helene Elliott, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2023
• And on both nights, their fastball did the heavy lifting.
  — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2024
• 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
• Lose to struggling Utah -- even on the road -- and the Ducks would have undone a lot of heavy lifting.
  — John Canzano, oregonlive, 5 Feb. 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

Last Updated: 28 Oct 2024