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very busy or full of people (The city was heaving with shoppers. • In an average year the place is heaving with foreign visitors. • The mine became one of the circles of Dante's Inferno, a London tube, a heaving labyrinth.  ldoceonline.com); extremely crowded (of a place: The foyer was absolutely heaving with people. • In the heaving streets, people don't seem to carry shopping bags, though the bars and restaurants are bursting. • The soldiers will find a heaving city of misery, mortars and stray bullets. • I would have been happier if he had used his persuasive powers with the Lord to heal the heaving roads of Bangalore. • The meltingpot that makes up this heaving city offered us a chance to blend - to the extent we were asked directions by visiting American hillbillies. • With increasing desperation, he looked for it, scanning the heaving landscape before him for something to hold onto. • As the artists working in the print studio pack away their things, the Jute cafe bar on the other side of the glass wall begins to fill with the heaving pre-club crowd. • Some teenage fans were in raptures as the chart-topper sang yards from them and played along for the heaving crowd which spilled out into the city centre. • Teenagers wept as the singing sensation sang inches from their faces and played along for the heaving crowd, which spilled out into the city centre. • Despite the heaving crowds the policemen and women on duty were all good natured and didn't seem to mind a bit of gentle ribbing from the stage. • The other man stared down at the heaving crowd with a morbid curiosity. • So much so they had no problem selling out the Olympia Theatre last night with screaming fans and even a number of celebrity faces in the heaving crowd. • Trapped in a hot, heaving crowd, I suffer the most terrifying claustrophobia of my life. • They all made up part of a heaving 8,000 strong crowd at the first of two Irish gigs as parts of their Licks tour. • Rarely crowded, it's a place to chill and have drinks with friends without having to bash your way through a heaving crowd just to go to the bathroom. • I glanced back out at the heaving crowd and debated slamming the door shut and hiding in here. • The usually hushed tunnels of the Washington metro turned into a heaving mass of cowboy hats, eel-skin boots and crocodile formations of ecstatic schoolgirls with tooth braces. • From the heaving Princes Street pavement between Hanover Street and Frederick Street the access to number 86 is nothing to boast about. • Despite not having been able to book, we didn't have long to wait before we were led through the heaving restaurant to a tiny table for two in a far corner. • And the sun did shine upon them, perhaps a bit too strongly, and the heaving throng had a most excellent time. • A food market that is usually heaving with bustling shoppers was deserted. lexico.com); full of people (The bar was absolutely heaving. cambridge.org); very busy and full of people (The fish market was absolutely heaving. macmillandictionary.com); crowded with people (Kinlochewe was heaving with cyclists and their vehicles on Saturday morning but somehow, the organisers had found space for everyone and the main roads were kept clear. • The pool was heaving with screaming kids. By contrast the beach was virtually deserted, apart from the one day a cruise ship docked & a group of about 10 people appeared. • At this time it was pissing down and by the time Joe Satriani came on the tent was heaving with people just coming in to keep dry. wiktionary.org) |
