heave in sight
To move or rise in view, especially from a distance. We had been walking for hours in the barren desert when finally a small town heaved in sight. The governor's mansion heaved in sight as we drove up the road. We were all very relieved to see the shoreline finally heave in sight.
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heave in(to) sight
Fig. to move into sight in the distance. As the fog cleared, a huge ship heaved into sight. After many days of sailing, land finally heaved in sight.
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heave in sight (or into view)
come into view. informal Heave meaning ‘rise up, as on the swell of a wave’ occurs in several nautical expressions; here the allusion is to the way that objects appear to rise up over the horizon at sea. The past form of heave in this sense is hove , but because most English-speakers are completely unfamiliar with the verb in its literal usage, hove is often used as a present form (and a new past form, hoved , is created from it).
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