How to Use heavy lifting in a Sentence
heavy lifting
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Third, a lot of the heavy lifting will be done by the iPhone 14 Max.
—Gordon Kelly, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2022
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In fact, the mentee should be doing a lot of the heavy lifting.
—Gracey Cantalupo, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
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That means that the ECB must do the heavy lifting this year.
—The Economist, 20 June 2020
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Virgo moons do most of the heavy lifting for the rest of us.
—Glamour, 31 May 2022
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Save the heavy lifting — fighting and such — for the men.
—Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 3 Sep. 2020
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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
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Marte’s out was only the start of the bullpen’s heavy lifting.
—Doug Padilla, Orange County Register, 28 June 2024
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There still is a lot of heavy lifting to do and the draft to look forward to.
—Brad Biggs, chicagotribune.com, 23 Mar. 2022
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There will be weeks when the offense will be asked to do the heavy lifting.
—Dan Labbe, cleveland, 10 Sep. 2023
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So proud of @jescanyon for doing all of the heavy lifting!
—Georgia Slater, PEOPLE.com, 5 July 2021
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In the second quarter of 2020, Big Tech did the heavy lifting.
—Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 15 July 2022
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Alan is much more the business side of things, and does the heavy lifting there.
—Nancy Tartaglione, Deadline, 1 Nov. 2024
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Here are our best one-pot meals that do the heavy lifting for you.
—Joe Sevier, Bon Appétit, 8 Jan. 2025
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With that said, there’s still a few things on the 49ers’ plate now that most of the heavy lifting has been done.
—Vincent Frank, Forbes, 7 May 2021
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But [Brittany Snow] does most of the heavy lifting there.
—Evan Romano, Men's Health, 21 Oct. 2022
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This cordless opener takes the stress out of the process and does all the heavy lifting for you.
—Mia Maguire, StyleCaster, 11 Dec. 2024
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Lucky for you, Women's Health did all the heavy lifting.
—Olivia Evans, Women's Health, 11 July 2023
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France did most of the heavy lifting to set up a G7 call on the pandemic.
—Stephen Collinson, CNN, 4 June 2020
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Yavuz Gultekin did the heavy lifting on the glass, each pulling down 12 boards.
—Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Jan. 2022
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Expect some of the heavy lifting to take place behind the scenes.
—Helene Elliott, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2023
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And on both nights, their fastball did the heavy lifting.
—Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2024
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Teggart’s teammates had done the heavy lifting, fighting the Bulls to a 16-16 tie.
—Dom Amore, courant.com, 8 Dec. 2020
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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
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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
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And, looking to the future, AI could also help with some of the heavy lifting.
—Barnaby Lashbrooke, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
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That will tell where this rebuild goes, since most of the heavy lifting is done.
—Dave Hyde, sun-sentinel.com, 13 Sep. 2021
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Reams said the cook had a helper, nicknamed a hoodlum, who did the heavy lifting and chores.
—Vincent T. Davis, ExpressNews.com, 15 Feb. 2020
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From there, the gossipmongers did the rest of the heavy lifting.
—Tori Telfer, refinery29.com, 23 Feb. 2021
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The play lets old Welch, up there so familiarly on screen, do the heavy lifting.
—Greg Evans, Deadline, 3 Apr. 2025
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There are some mattress styles that don’t require the heavy lifting required to flip a mattress.
—Kristi Kellogg, Architectural Digest, 31 Mar. 2025
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