How to Use heavy chain in a Sentence

heavy chain

noun
  • Young went to the bench to sit down, no doubt tired by the heavy chain.
    — Dave Hyde, Sun-Sentinel.com, 3 Sep. 2017
  • Llamas, camels, and sharks all use only a pair of heavy chains.
    — Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 5 Nov. 2018
  • Others were also found in the rain in outdoor pens or on heavy chains.
    — Joseph P. Smith, USA TODAY, 7 Apr. 2024
  • For docking or heavy conditions, add a length of heavy chain equal to the length of the boat.
    — Ric Burnley, Field & Stream, 9 Jan. 2023
  • Goff uses sandbags and knows of growers who rely on heavy chains.
    — Washington Post, 13 Nov. 2019
  • Lunn took out a small key and struggled for a long while to open a padlock that secured a heavy chain around the door handles.
    — Patricia Marx, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2024
  • As the anchor drags across the bottom, the heavy chain forces the anchor shaft down and pushes the flukes into the bottom.
    — Ric Burnley, Field & Stream, 9 Jan. 2023
  • Their small, fragile bodies bore the signs of a cruel life—shivering in the bitter cold and snow, each one trapped by the heavy chains around their necks.
    — Tj MacIas, Miami Herald, 7 Feb. 2025
  • Scorpion tanks followed the soldiers; heavy chains mounted on the front flailed the ground and exploded the mines as the tank moved forward.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 8 Jan. 2025
  • Trident has taken steps to manage that pile, such as dragging the seafloor with heavy chains or pipes to push it back under one acre, Gebhardt said.
    — Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Mar. 2018
  • Designed to be worn across two fingers, two gold bands are connected by a heavy chain representing the strength of connection.
    — Caitie Kelly Kin Woo Kate Guadagnino Nicole Demarco Megan O’Sullivan, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Strangely, the students found only heavy chain proteins in the blood even though antibodies were supposed to also have light chains.
    — Christina Szalinski, Discover Magazine, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Nobody, however, denies that the heavy chain was used as punishment by an all-white group of instructors on a Black cadet.
    — USA Today, 14 Apr. 2021
  • One of the city’s stock characters was the fearless bicycle messenger, wearing a heavy chain lock around the waist and whipping through traffic with supreme confidence.
    — Steven Higashide, The Atlantic, 1 Mar. 2018
  • Scientists still don’t know why camelids and cartilaginous fishes, like sharks, are the only animals known to make heavy chain antibodies.
    — Christina Szalinski, Discover Magazine, 22 Feb. 2023
  • In addition to these standard antibodies, sharks and camels and their relatives make antibodies with only heavy chains (middle and right).
    — Christina Szalinski, Discover Magazine, 22 Feb. 2023
  • As with the cemetery in Tunis, the gates of Bassatine were locked with a heavy chain and the graveyard was surrounded by a wall, this one at least 12 feet high.
    — Michael David Lukas, New York Times, 8 June 2018
  • Kunzweiler gestured toward the defense table, where Wilkens sat in a striped orange jail jumpsuit, her handcuffs padlocked to a heavy chain at her waist, her ankles shackled together in leg irons.
    — Pamela Colloff, ProPublica, 24 Mar. 2026
  • Before filming the Avengers movies, Brie went from being out of breath on an uphill walk, per People, to being able to casually burst out a set of pushups with a heavy chain wrapped around her waist.
    — Jacqueline Tempera, Women's Health, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Anyone who knows the significance of the November 1938 date on the Buck Hill bunker or that of the heavy chain nearby may contact this column.
    — Paula Allen, San Antonio Express-News, 29 May 2021

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