To a great degree

Usage examples of heavily.

Jenings and Digges were somewhat shadowy figures who may have been double agents like Edward Bancroft, but Adams trusted both, relied heavily on them, and the system worked with great efficiency.

But then neither did Adams write of his own increasing worry and sorrow over his son Thomas, who, having failed in the law, was drinking heavily and employed now primarily as a caretaker for his father and the farm.

As Bollux sat heavily into the acceleration chair, Max extended an adaptor, the one Chewbacca had repaired after the encounter with the slavers.

Rostow, Mac, Bundy and Hot Stick were standing by with their weapons pointed at the congregation of Aguaruna as casually as it could be done without being rude, trying to provide comfort for Felix, who crouched next to the Stele, perspiring heavily over a soldering iron, a converter and a picnic cooler full of two dozen size-D batteries.

But now that it looked certain the Dyson aliens had been confined, shipboard speculation was heavily focused on the reason.

Hasina was being treated, Amani had found little time to worry about the future, but Zinsa knew it weighed heavily on her and hoped the offer of employment would ease her mind a bit.

Many alcoves opened off that huge chamber, with its vaulted ceiling that was painted bright blue, and the walls that were paneled with ebonized wood inlaid with Amboina in a heavily gilded floral pattern, the center panels containing olive-colored Wedgwood plaques.

The Americano turned, sprang through an opening, climbed a metal barricade and jumped to the ground, falling heavily.

Iraq, and its society is too heavily penetrated by Iraqi intelligence for Amman to be able to easily handle the risks of participating openly.

The antinuclear protests in Asia during the past decades had been heavily funded by Japan, and had succeeded in spite of rumors in the Western press that Japan itself was working on a new type of nuclear weapon.

Abandoned buildings, crumbling streets, and rundown neighborhoods prevailed along both sides of the busy road that many Austinites used to go from north to south and back, avoiding the more heavily trafficked I-35 and Mopac.

As we lumbered along, I realized we were so heavily loaded that an autorotation would be a lot rougher than anyone would like when carrying more than a ton of high explosives.

On it lay a figure so heavily draped in copper ornament that Adica could barely make out that she had hair and features beneath a headdress of beaten copper, a broad pectoral, armbands, bracelets and a wide waistband worked into the shape of two axheads crossing.

With considerable hilarity on the part of the girls, they passed noisily through the hall, past the big open doorway leading into the enormous barroom, and Awl- THE POODLE DOG 81 on up the heavily carpeted stairs to room number 10, at the head.

Vellain flopped heavily into a capacious basketwork chair in their bedroom.