Synonym: hard, heavy, intemperately, to a great extent. Similar words: civil, saving, civilian, gravity, behavior, family, weave, leave. Meaning: ['hevɪlɪ] adv. 1. to a considerable degree 2. in a heavy-footed manner 3. with great force 4. in a manner designed for heavy duty 5. slowly as if burdened by much weight 6. indulging excessively.
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241. It's quite a strain on me when he's drinking heavily.
242. Officials of the CIA depend heavily on electronic mail to communicate with each other.
243. Prune the shrub heavily now and fresh green growths should appear in March and April.
244. Avoid cashing in a policy early as you could lose out heavily.
245. The courts are going to come down heavily on young criminals.
246. North Korea is said to be the world's most heavily militarized country, with over 1 million men in the armed forces.
247. The desire for peace will weigh heavily on the negotiators.
248. The ship was rolling heavily to and fro on the rough seas.
249. Oil companies were heavily criticized when they made large profits during the oil crisis of the 1970s.
250. The doctor fixed the rib, dosed him heavily with drugs, and said he would probably get better.
251. He drew heavily on his cigarette and puffed out a cloud of smoke.
252. I couldn't resist a touch of Schadenfreude when he was defeated so heavily in the election.
253. The judges have been heavily criticized for their partiality in the whole affair.
254. Our team put up a poor show in the final and lost heavily.
255. The recent rise in prices there tells heavily on low - salaried employees.
256. Grace sighed so heavily that Trish could hear it in the next room.
257. The events of the leader's life were heavily embellished by his biographers.
258. After heavily losing the election the party threw their leader overboard.
259. A young man was bending low to push a heavily loaded barrow up a slope.
260. I fell and landed heavily at the bottom of the stairs.
261. He was a big man of about forty, wide-shouldered and heavily built.
262. Sid was heavily into drugs by the time he left school.
263. He fell heavily to the floor, his eyes bulging wide with fear.
264. Estimates of the amount of money needed to decontaminate the heavily polluted chemical installations vary.
265. Like so many companies at that time, we had to borrow heavily to survive.
266. His solicitor said he committed the offence because he was heavily in debt.
267. The door was built of oak, heavily reinforced with iron.
267. Sentencedict.com is a sentence dictionary, on which you can find excellent sentences for a large number of words.
268. The popular schools — the sort you really might drive across town for — tend to be heavily oversubscribed.
269. His work draws heavily on learning theories of the 1980s.