Advertisement
Advertisement
heave into sight
Idioms and Phrases
Rise or seem to rise into view. For example, We waited and waited, and finally the rest of our party heaved into sight . This expression was at first used for ships rising over the horizon. [Late 1700s]Example Sentences
To the west, new architectural baubles heave into sight — “Look, it’s that iceberg building,” one woman exclaimed, catching sight of Frank Gehry’s IAC headquarters on the West Side Highway.
He would have been glad to see a rescuing vessel heave into sight.
When large numbers heave into sight, zooming along the road in a spaced-out phantasmagoria of a caravan, they can set the innocent motorist to gaping and muttering, "What is going on here?"
Hanging around until you should heave into sight.
Natalie, leaping from stone to stone across the stream, suddenly saw Garth's figure heave into sight around a bend in the path.
Advertisement
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Browse