get heavy
Frequency: 7.065.7 per million words
To start to be heavy; also used for things like rain or traffic becoming more intense.
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- You're getting too heavy to carry!
- The rain started to get heavy just as we left the house.
- My backpack got so heavy after I added the textbooks.
- The traffic usually starts to get heavy around 5 PM.
- The atmosphere in the room got heavy when they started arguing.
- As the evening wore on, my eyelids began to get heavy.
- The snowfall got heavier and heavier throughout the night.
- If the patient's breathing gets heavy, call the nurse immediately.
- Things started to get heavy between them after the argument.
- My heart gets heavy whenever I think about their suffering.