With heavy steps

Usage examples of leadenly.

Her thin body lay stiff in the bed, her husband sprawled leadenly beside her.

The climb up the bank seemed endless, my feet dragging leadenly and a hot hushed silence persisted in which the engines of the Land-Rovers seemed muted, but our footsteps pounded like stampeding hooves.

Abduction therapists are puzzled when their patients describe crying out in terror while their spouses sleep leadenly beside them.

He was standing in the center of a large low tent of air, which was floored by the velvety sea-muck in which he had sunk to his ankles and roofed by the leadenly gleaming undersurface of the water -- not evenly though, but in swells and hollows with ominous downward bulges here and there.