1
: to a great degree : severely
2
: slowly and laboriously : dully
3
archaic
: with sorrow : grievously
4
: in a heavy manner
Examples of heavily in a Sentence
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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Scaling up a young audience Kirk’s early messaging at Turning Point focused heavily on traditional conservative tenets of free market economics and limited government.
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Lily Mae Lazarus, Fortune, 20 Sep. 2025
Jax was booed heavily for that line.
—Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 20 Sep. 2025
Ishika Samant/Getty Images While Thibodeau leaned heavily on two-time All-NBA Knicks point guard Jalen Brunson to bail the team out with clutch buckets late in shot clocks, Brown is expected to employ a bit more variety in his offensive sets.
—Alex Kirschenbaum, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Sep. 2025
Ortega said the greatest price impact is on foods that either rely heavily on immigrant labor to produce in the United States, such as fruit and vegetables, or those grown almost exclusively in other countries and subject to steep tariffs, like coffee and bananas.
—Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Money, 20 Sep. 2025
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Lily Mae Lazarus, Fortune, 20 Sep. 2025
Jax was booed heavily for that line.
—Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 20 Sep. 2025
Ishika Samant/Getty Images While Thibodeau leaned heavily on two-time All-NBA Knicks point guard Jalen Brunson to bail the team out with clutch buckets late in shot clocks, Brown is expected to employ a bit more variety in his offensive sets.
—Alex Kirschenbaum, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Sep. 2025
Ortega said the greatest price impact is on foods that either rely heavily on immigrant labor to produce in the United States, such as fruit and vegetables, or those grown almost exclusively in other countries and subject to steep tariffs, like coffee and bananas.
—Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Money, 20 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for heavily
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“Heavily.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/heavily. Accessed 22 Sep. 2025.
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