How to Use heavy lifting in a Sentence

heavy lifting

noun
  • But the heavy lifting is done for now.
    — Eric Cortellessa, Time, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Gosling has to do a lot of heavy lifting.
    — G. Allen Johnson, Houston Chronicle, 19 Mar. 2026
  • The grounds do much of the heavy lifting.
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Trust, the bangs will do the heavy lifting for you.
    — Amanda Le, InStyle, 26 Feb. 2026
  • His testing did the heavy lifting for his case.
    — Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Apr. 2026
  • The myth was doing some heavy lifting that night.
    — Monti Carlo, AJC.com, 15 Mar. 2026
  • Let the freezer aisle do the heavy lifting with this recipe.
    — Mary Shannon Wells, Southern Living, 7 May 2026
  • Lock in this deal today and let your phone do the heavy lifting!
    — Juhi Wadia, PC Magazine, 13 Apr. 2026
  • Macbeth was a lot of heavy lifting.
    — Reshma Gopaldas, Vogue, 17 Feb. 2026
  • The fish does the heavy lifting; just choose your cooking method.
    — Ashlyn Ware, Midwest Living, 1 May 2026
  • That’s where flower choice does the heavy lifting.
    — Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Miami Herald, 13 May 2026
  • No roof racks, heavy lifting, or guessing which pole goes where.
    — Erica Zazo, Outside, 14 Oct. 2025
  • In other words, these are the items that do the heavy lifting day in and day out.
    — Amber Rambharose, InStyle, 3 Apr. 2026
  • The Panthers have done a lot of heavy lifting over the past week.
    — Mike Kaye march 16, Charlotte Observer, 16 Mar. 2026
  • But even the best formula isn’t meant to do all the heavy lifting.
    — Christa Joanna Lee, Allure, 2 May 2026
  • Lamar Jackson needs to do heavy lifting.
    — Michael Salfino, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Rely on your web team to do the heavy lifting, and trust their advice.
    — Peter Boyd, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
  • And the show’s visual style is doing a lot of the heavy lifting.
    — Hanna Wickes, Charlotte Observer, 4 Mar. 2026
  • Tailgating beer must do a lot of heavy lifting.
    — Hudson Lindenberger, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
  • In most games, the Mets need their offense to do the heavy lifting to win.
    — Will Sammon, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2025
  • While many brands have done the heavy lifting to create a skirt-pants hybrid—skants?
    — Aemilia Madden, Glamour, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Make your success stories do the heavy lifting.
    — Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2025
  • Here are the high-impact, low-effort moves that do the heavy lifting for you.
    — Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Miami Herald, 16 Apr. 2026
  • These uniforms are doing the same heavy lifting.
    — Kevin Sintumuang, Outside, 16 Dec. 2025
  • There was a lot more heavy lifting in the early going to just work out what the episodes were.
    — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 17 Nov. 2025
  • Let public transport do the heavy lifting.
    — Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Few pieces do more heavy lifting in a living room than the coffee table.
    — Lauren Jones, Southern Living, 8 June 2026
  • Space travel has long involved heavy lifting.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 9 Apr. 2026
  • On the other end of the ice, goaltending has done a lot of the heavy lifting.
    — Shayna Goldman, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2026
  • The solution is to let your keyboard do more of the heavy lifting.
    — Ken Colburn, AZCentral.com, 19 Jan. 2026

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