(adv.) In a heavy manner; with great weight; as, to bear heavily on a thing; to be heavily loaded.
(adv.) As if burdened with a great weight; slowly and laboriously; with difficulty; hence, in a slow, difficult, or suffering manner; sorrowfully.
Example Sentences:
(1) Yesterday's flight may not quite have been one small step for man, but the hyperbole and the sense of history weighed heavily on those involved.
(2) However, self-efficacy (defined as confidence in being able to resist the urge to drink heavily) assessed at intake of treatment, was strongly associated with the level of consumption on drinking occasions at follow-up.
(3) 5 heavily pretreated patients with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia or non-Hodgkin lymphoma resistant to alkylating agents were treated with low-dose cytosine arabinoside (ARA-C).
(4) As it was, Labour limped in seven points and nearly two million votes behind the Conservatives because older cohorts of the electorate leant heavily to the Tories and grandpa and grandma turned up at the polling stations in the largest numbers.
(5) Modeling in epidemiological investigations depends heavily on work in experimental radiobiology.
(6) The Nigerian government has been heavily criticised for failing to protect civilians in an increasingly violent conflict that left about 10,000 dead last year.
(7) But in Annie Hall the mortality that weighs most heavily is the mortality of his love affair.
(8) [U-14C]Glucose failed to label choline-containing lipids in T. foetus but did so in T. vaginalis, with phosphatidylethanolamine again being heavily labeled.
(9) The practice of community nursing was heavily emphasized, and it was endeavored to strike a balance between hospital experience and work in communities themselves.
(10) The R&D team at Unilever, the British-Dutch behemoth that makes 40% of the ice creams we eat in the UK – Magnum, Ben & Jerry's, Cornetto and Carte D'Or among them – has invested heavily to create products that are both healthier and creamier.
(11) "There were around 50 attackers, heavily armed in three vehicles, and they were flying the Shebab flag," Maisori added, speaking from the town, where several buildings including hotels, restaurants, banks and government offices were razed to the ground.
(12) Paradigm relies heavily on social science research and analysis to help companies identify and address the specific barriers and unconscious biases that might be affecting their diversity efforts: things like anonymizing resumes so that employers can’t tell a candidate’s gender or ethnicity, or modifying a salary negotiation process that places women and minorities at a disadvantage.
(13) These occurred in the more heavily pretreated members of the cohort.
(14) PCB residues occurred only in snakes collected near a heavily-traveled highway.
(15) Ultrastructural examination of lepromatous nerves, on the other hand, showed the predominance of macrophages with large nucleus, heavily bacillated Schwann cells, and a few lymphocytes.
(16) Basic foodstuffs, such as flour, sugar and edible oils, are heavily subsidised.
(17) Light and electron microscopic analysis showed a high concentration of this enzyme in stellate cells, particularly heavily distributed under the organ capsule and scattered in the parenchyma, where they form a widespread three-dimensional network.
(18) Whereas granulosa cells in developing follicles were either unstained or lightly stained, the heavily luteinized granulosa cells of the preovulatory stimulated follicle were strongly positive for immunoreactive renin and angiotensin II.
(19) Self-reported abuse in the 6 months before interview had similar psychosocial correlates in both samples (heavily drinking friends, a positive attitude to heavy drinking, etc.).
(20) A thirty-seven year old male patient with heavily pretreated metastatic testicular carcinoma received escalating doses of recombinant human erythropoietin (EPO) before and throughout chemotherapy.
Plunk
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) 2.12am BST Pirates 3 - Reds 0, top of 4th Shin-Soo Choo is hit by a Liriano pitch, and that happens a lot - he led all of baseball in that esteemed category by being plunked 26 times.
(2) And plunk them down in a place where their friends are murdered and they are constantly attacked and threatened.
(3) Not boxing’s browbeaten but devoted fans, at least 300,000 of whom are sure to plunk down $75 for a fight no less one-sided than Death Star v Alderaan.
(4) It appeared, oddly, as though he was doing mostly nothing that afternoon, just clicking in slow, methodical plunks.
(5) A final word about Anna and Bates, who are plunked back into the same kind of silence and mutual misunderstanding that defined their early relationship and which seems to be driving them inevitably toward a wholly evitable bad end.
(6) Read more As a cigarette packet designer, John Digianni, explains in an interview on the tobacco industry website Tobacco Today : “A cigarette package is part of a smoker’s clothing, and when he saunters into a bar and plunks it down, he makes a statement about himself.
(7) Even worse, shortstop Hanley Ramirez, so important to the LA lineup, still has rib issues after being plunked by Joe Kelly in Game One and missing Game Two - he'll be in the lineup but can he be effective?