Examples of how to use the word “heavily” in a sentence. How to connect “heavily” with other words to make correct English sentences.
heavily (adv): to a great degree
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| The building was heavily damaged by fire. |
| It rained heavily yesterday afternoon.
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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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1. He that climbs high falls heavily. 
2. The company invested heavily in new technology.
3. Misfortunes have rained heavily upon the old man.
4. The roads to Bordeaux were heavily congested.
5. The word «not» was heavily underlined.
6. His back was heavily braced.
7. He’s given to drinking rather heavily.
8. Many self-employed people are heavily taxed.
9. Japanese has borrowed heavily from English.
10. They had doped the patient heavily before the operation.
11. They invested heavily in 3G mobile phone networks.
12. The organization depended heavily on voluntary help.
13. He was panting heavily as he ran.
14. The approaches to the garrison have been heavily mined.
15. The military-backed government has heavily censored the news.
16. The hijackers were heavily disguised.
17. The town was heavily fortified.
18. He took the heavily laden tray from her.
19. Tap water is usually heavily treated with chemicals.
20. His novels draw heavily on his childhood.
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21. She became heavily involved in politics.
22. These products have been advertised very heavily.
23. He is heavily insured against death.
24. He regularly goes to the races and bets heavily.
25. Snow was falling heavily as we entered the village.
26. The goose flapped heavily away.
27. I became heavily involved in politics.
28. The city was heavily defended against attack.
29. Environmental law heavily intertwined with administrative law.
30. The service has become heavily reliant on government support.
More similar words: civil, saving, civilian, gravity, behavior, family, weave, leave, civil rights, readily, happily, behavioral, steadily, jauntily, leave out, leave off, primarily, leave alone, leave behind, be available, hear, heal, head, cheat, wheat, cheap, heart, hear of, head for, head up.
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Sentence Examples
And then one day, you too can be the proud proprietor of a very heavily mortgaged, roadside brothel and wish you were dead.
All switchbacks, heavily guarded on all three sides.
Settings like this depends heavily on the compatibility between the men and women here.
Sore from constant speech, throats breathe heavily and unevenly.
Edm├®e being unable to speak, suspicion rested heavily on Bernard whose fiery temper and stormy past caused tongues to wag.
What had been preserved was, however, a heavily damaged copy of the film that had been printed to 16mm film stock, lacking the full frame of the picture’s original aspect ratio.
Yes, if the pharmacy weren’t so heavily mortgaged — !
# And one stands in front of her house, # looks up to her windows, # and one sighs heavily and wanders up and down # in front of the window.
She fell out of public view until 1950, when, heavily sedated with sleeping pills, she was badly burned in a Hollywood bedroom fire, bringing a flurry of lurid press attention.
The food is heavily seasoned with a lot of spices and garlic.
We lost heavily at Chancellorsville.
Why do you suppose she leans on him so heavily?
He borrowed heavily from Dr. Racine… who, after the tomb was finally located… quite naturally felt he was entitled to a share of the finds.
You know committing perjury is a major sin, heavily punished.
Well, the Merry Fern’s heavily insured, just like the ship that sank last year.
If my company hangs so heavily on your hands… why did you make me leave Biarritz and come all this way? — I’m expecting a visitor.
The fog is gathering heavily in the valley, in whirls without rest.
Front right fender heavily dented.
If I were the government, I’d tax heavily those who don’t spend their incomes.
After a while, you saw rain heavily so, do it slowly
Ah, but perhaps the mouse drink too heavily of his own cocktails… and then become not afraid of the lion.
«At times this hereditary flaw weighed heavily upon him. He felt he was paying the price for the generations of his forefathers whose drinking had poisoned his blood.
Well, I’m sorry if you prefer it like that, but you’re already heavily billed as Herkimer.
The responsibility lies more heavily upon Mr. Stevens than he cares to admit.
[Breathing heavily] There.
All I want is that she shan’t pay too heavily.
You see how heavily the weight of his duties press upon the poor child?
It is the custom here for the dead to drink heavily.
Or you discover too late that they have relied too heavily on science and that this has become a monster whose final triumph is man own destruction.
I heavily drugged your mother, pronounced her dead but she is not dead.
Fortunately, the deceased was heavily insured.
heavily crossed T’s in note to Boggs… not evident in stock notations.
She’s been drinking heavily, and they are both quarreling something awful.
Outgoing ships will be detained, incoming ships heavily convoyed… at least for the next few days.
And the night will be heavy with perfume, and I’ll hear a step behind me… and somebody breathing heavily.
I do know he always went heavily armed, and he never went to sleep without covering the floor around his bed with newspapers so that nobody could come silently into his room.
Now this time you should bet heavily on eight.
It’s just Bovril rather heavily laced with sherry.
When your whole world is your papers, they weigh heavily.
Won’t cost you more than $50… that is, of course, if you don’t tip too heavily.
Patient is asleep, breathing very heavily.
She began speculating pretty heavily, and he tried to stop her, but-
They’ll be heavily armed… and bristling with large-caliber cannon.
She disposed of four heavily insured husbands.
Very unfortunate that you should lose so heavily your first time here.
It’s being heavily bombed these nights.
Excellency, this man’s vessel was patrolling an area which the navy has heavily mined.
And then one day, you too can be the proud proprietor of a very heavily mortgaged, roadside brothel and wish you were dead.
All switchbacks, heavily guarded on all three sides.
Settings like this depends heavily on the compatibility between the men and women here.
Sore from constant speech, throats breathe heavily and unevenly.
Edm├®e being unable to speak, suspicion rested heavily on Bernard whose fiery temper and stormy past caused tongues to wag.
What had been preserved was, however, a heavily damaged copy of the film that had been printed to 16mm film stock, lacking the full frame of the picture’s original aspect ratio.
Yes, if the pharmacy weren’t so heavily mortgaged — !
# And one stands in front of her house, # looks up to her windows, # and one sighs heavily and wanders up and down # in front of the window.
She fell out of public view until 1950, when, heavily sedated with sleeping pills, she was badly burned in a Hollywood bedroom fire, bringing a flurry of lurid press attention.
The food is heavily seasoned with a lot of spices and garlic.
We lost heavily at Chancellorsville.
Why do you suppose she leans on him so heavily?
He borrowed heavily from Dr. Racine… who, after the tomb was finally located… quite naturally felt he was entitled to a share of the finds.
You know committing perjury is a major sin, heavily punished.
Well, the Merry Fern’s heavily insured, just like the ship that sank last year.
If my company hangs so heavily on your hands… why did you make me leave Biarritz and come all this way? — I’m expecting a visitor.
The fog is gathering heavily in the valley, in whirls without rest.
Front right fender heavily dented.
If I were the government, I’d tax heavily those who don’t spend their incomes.
After a while, you saw rain heavily so, do it slowly
Ah, but perhaps the mouse drink too heavily of his own cocktails… and then become not afraid of the lion.
«At times this hereditary flaw weighed heavily upon him. He felt he was paying the price for the generations of his forefathers whose drinking had poisoned his blood.
Well, I’m sorry if you prefer it like that, but you’re already heavily billed as Herkimer.
The responsibility lies more heavily upon Mr. Stevens than he cares to admit.
[Breathing heavily] There.
All I want is that she shan’t pay too heavily.
You see how heavily the weight of his duties press upon the poor child?
It is the custom here for the dead to drink heavily.
Or you discover too late that they have relied too heavily on science and that this has become a monster whose final triumph is man own destruction.
I heavily drugged your mother, pronounced her dead but she is not dead.
Fortunately, the deceased was heavily insured.
heavily crossed T’s in note to Boggs… not evident in stock notations.
She’s been drinking heavily, and they are both quarreling something awful.
Outgoing ships will be detained, incoming ships heavily convoyed… at least for the next few days.
And the night will be heavy with perfume, and I’ll hear a step behind me… and somebody breathing heavily.
I do know he always went heavily armed, and he never went to sleep without covering the floor around his bed with newspapers so that nobody could come silently into his room.
Now this time you should bet heavily on eight.
It’s just Bovril rather heavily laced with sherry.
When your whole world is your papers, they weigh heavily.
Won’t cost you more than $50… that is, of course, if you don’t tip too heavily.
Patient is asleep, breathing very heavily.
She began speculating pretty heavily, and he tried to stop her, but-
They’ll be heavily armed… and bristling with large-caliber cannon.
She disposed of four heavily insured husbands.
Very unfortunate that you should lose so heavily your first time here.
It’s being heavily bombed these nights.
Excellency, this man’s vessel was patrolling an area which the navy has heavily mined.
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adverb
with a great weight or burden: a heavily loaded wagon.
in a manner suggestive of carrying a great weight; ponderously; lumberingly: He walked heavily across the room.
in an oppressive manner: Cares weigh heavily upon him.
densely; thickly: heavily wooded.
in large amounts or in great quantities; very much: It rained heavily on Tuesday.
without animation or vigor; in a dull manner; sluggishly.
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Origin of heavily
before 900; Middle English hevyly,Old English hefiglīce.See heavy, -ly
OTHER WORDS FROM heavily
o·ver·heav·i·ly, adverbun·heav·i·ly, adverb
Words nearby heavily
heavenwards, heave-off hinge, heaves, heave to, heavier-than-air, heavily, Heaviside, Heaviside layer, Heaviside unit function, heavy, heavy artillery
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Words related to heavily
densely, massively, thickly, dejectedly, dully, gloomily, ponderously, profoundly, sluggishly, tediously, wearily, weightily
How to use heavily in a sentence
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Walmart may also be able to push e-commerce more heavily on TikTok, and turn it into more of a livestream shopping app.
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People who experienced childhood trauma are more likely to smoke or drink heavily, it found.
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Similar to learning from our own experiences, this social learning circuit generates a “social prediction error”—one that heavily guides how we learn from others, but surprisingly, also how we learn from ourselves.
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However, employment fears continue to weigh heavily everywhere.
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Of course, these scores aren’t perfect either, as they’re heavily influenced by which bills actually get to the floor and which don’t, but they’re still useful for helping us distinguish conservatives from liberals from moderates.
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That fantasy, however, is still heavily regimented by all sorts of norms.
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The scene was heavily cordoned off to traffic and anyone not with the police, press, or residents.
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His later books drew heavily from experiences and people he encountered at the bar, including the cruel captain in The Sea-Wolf.
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I mean my background weighed heavily, because I was brought up in this orthodox way.
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But, under the hawkish eye of the media and through a heavily active social media presence, she carried on as usual.
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The left heel followed like lightning, and the right paw also slipped, letting the bear again fall heavily on the ice below.
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Even New Zealand Brigade which has been only recently engaged lost heavily and is to some extent demoralised.
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One heavily-laden boat was dragged into the stream, and a few officers and men clambered on board.
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He was flung down heavily, and pinned prone in a corner by one of those bullies who knelt on his spine.
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But before he reached it there was the shriek of a whistle, a violent shock, and he was hurled heavily into the opposite seat.
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: slowly and laboriously : dully
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Example Sentences
He relies heavily on his wife for advice.
These artists borrow heavily from Picasso.
Our flowers were heavily damaged by a late spring frost.
She drank and smoked heavily for years.
He sat down heavily on the couch.
He was leaning heavily on the table.
She sighed heavily then said “Okay, I’ll do it.”
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While Netflix has made plenty of mistakes over the years, one absolutely genius decision by them was to invest this heavily into Korean content.
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Paul Tassi, Forbes, 27 Mar. 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
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
Toshiba is also involved in the decommissioning effort at the Fukushima nuclear plant heavily damaged by an earthquake and tsunami in March 2011.
—Yuri Kageyama, ajc, 24 Mar. 2023
If such an object would be going down directly over a city, this would be a problem: The whole city would likely be heavily damaged, and should be evacuated.
—Amy Woodyatt, CNN, 24 Mar. 2023
Social media platforms, once solely windows into smaller worlds, are now heavily trafficked gateways to wider audiences and revenue streams.
—John Marshall, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Mar. 2023
Russia has invested heavily in its submarine fleet, making its boats quieter and more lethal, analysts say.
—Tom Costello, NBC News, 23 Mar. 2023
And that’s well up from the pre-pandemic $1.12 billion spent in local film and TV expenditures in 2019 in and around Toronto as major studios and streamers invested heavily in content for new direct-to-consumer platforms.
—Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Mar. 2023
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Word History
First Known Use
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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The first known use of heavily was
before the 12th century
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“Heavily.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/heavily. Accessed 14 Apr. 2023.
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