Heft in a sentence as a noun

Like the tip of an iceberg, their great heft can remain unseen.

They may not have the heft of the NYT or TC, but are a great way to actually drive your business.

Not claiming that such a thing does not exist, rather would be happy to give such a thing a try. It would also lend more heft to your comment.

It probably won't have the same heft in the hand, nor the feel of the keyboard as the original.

That marketing heft is likely move to Win8, leaving Play in a very weak position.

He's also probably violating the building code for short term rental units, which could mean very heft fines.

Your point is well served without the analogy of heft and the financial industry being added.

The tablet experience is stunted by the awkwardly long screen in portrait mode, anemic app ecosystem, and size/heft.

The heft of Android adoption was due to marketing and promotion from device manufacturers and carriers blocked out of the new wave Apple/ATT smart phones.

Heft in a sentence as a verb

"Standard" carries with it a significant heft in meaning, especially authority, that "Something" else is unlikely to carry.

To produce a physical artifact that has the right balance, heft, lines, and finish requires the integration of a lot of different skills that when done properly, is deeply satisfying.

Something bothersome about desktop monitors is that, unlike televisions, they are manufactured with serious heft.

But a portion of it is that authors are told, by their publishing companies, they need to target a certain size to get their books published, because a book needs to have a certain heft or it will never leave the shelf.

Even now, you think that quoting someone adds heft to your evidence when the even more obvious question -- why are you limiting your analysis to intra-household dynamics only?

It is men who heft and weld the giant steel beams that frame our office buildings, and it is men who do the hair-raising work of insetting and sealing the finely tempered plate-glass windows of skyscrapers 50 stories tall.

"Whereas individual gun owners, 5 million, a million more than before Newton, are the ones who belong to the NRA, and who, along with the gun owners who listen to us, are the ones who give it such political heft.

Sports is a very important part of many people's lives; surely that alone lends it sufficient heft to be a defensible use of Silver's talent?As for why, Silver got started in sabermetrics, and going back to working on sports stats is almost certainly because he likes it.

Heft definitions

noun

the property of being large in mass

See also: heftiness massiveness ponderousness ponderosity

verb

lift or elevate

See also: heave

verb

test the weight of something by lifting it