(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.
Torrential
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Torrentine
Example Sentences:
(1) Kerry McQuade whose home perched high up on Blenheim Street avoided the worst effects, said: "We had two hours of a torrential downpour, followed by continual rain, from lunchtime.
(2) Three patients could not undergo sclerosis, one because of torrential bleeding and two because of ulcer location.
(3) The freezing New Year rain drove into the dug-outs in such torrential fashion that he initially sheltered in the tunnel but such inclement weather quickly proved the least of his problems.
(4) After days of torrential rains, the French government has issued an orange alert for central Paris.
(5) This rare, potentially curable cause of torrential upper gastrointestinal hemorrhage is usually secondary to perforation of a gastric ulcer into the distal thoracic aorta.
(6) Roads and railway lines were submerged in water after torrential rain and flash flooding hit one small town for the second summer in a row .
(7) García glanced in from a free-kick after 20 minutes to give Bilbao the least they deserved from a match played in torrential rain and on a saturated pitch at the Estadio de San Mamés.
(8) My worst day so far – torrential rain – provided just 7p; the last £2 day was a month ago; will I see its like again before spring?
(9) Torrential hemorrhage is rare in tuberculous affection of the bowel.
(10) Our massively complex society relies on the ability to plant crops knowing that they will grow, and build cities and infrastructure in places that won't be flooded by incoming tides or washed away by torrential rains.
(11) It would have been a daisycutter had the torrential rain not already flattened the wee flowers.
(12) Earthworks were started in late 2011, while the route was still being finessed, and continued despite the difficulties caused by torrential rain that has fallen in the region over the last year.
(13) The UN report said torrential rains caused severe damage to homes, public buildings, infrastructure and farms, affecting maize, soybean and rice fields.
(14) There were eight exclusions: four were inaccessible, one was a torrential haemorrhage and three were excluded for non-technical reasons.
(15) The failure of cessation of hemorrhage to improve survival is thought to be due to the degree of advancement of the underlying disease, to the torrential nature of the hemorrhage, to the frequency of recurrent hemorrhage, and to the use of intraarterial vasopressin in some patients in the conventional treatment group in whom conventional therapy had failed.
(16) Widespread torrential downpours battered the UK coast on Saturday with up to an inch of rain falling in some places.
(17) The strange thing was that the rain in Port Elizabeth was so torrential at that stage that most of the fans in the lower sections had already deserted the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium.
(18) Severe flood warnings have been issued in the north and east of England, the Midlands and much of Wales, with non-stop torrential rain expected for the next 24 hours and into Saturday in what forecasters are predicting could be the most serious weather conditions yet this year.
(19) Torrential rain fell on the queue of people waiting outside parliament to go through security.
(20) Severe floods around Europe after torrential rain – in pictures Read more People in Nemours were evacuated after the Loing river burst its banks and submerged the high street.