How to Use headed in a Sentence
headed
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Most headed downtown, all appeared to skip the fare.
—Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 7 Dec. 2025
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Some critics panned the group as soft-headed and self-indulgent.
—Time, 20 Jan. 2023
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That’s two 12 seeds and two 13 seeds moving on, two fours and two fives headed home.
—Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 23 Mar. 2024
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Yeah, the bald-headed guy from Letterman?
—EW.com, 28 Aug. 2025
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This 61-year-old, bald-headed, white guy in Opelousas is two spots ahead of Aretha.
—Herman Fuselier, The Seattle Times, 24 Dec. 2017
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The lion is decisive, bold, and clear-headed.
—Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
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Patton Oswalt stars as the big-headed creep himself, whose life is going down the tubes.
—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 21 Apr. 2021
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Feel terrible, cry, vent, but come out clear-headed and ready to accept whatever the world brings to you next.
—Wayne and Wanda, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Aug. 2022
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And be clear-headed, and cold-blooded, about that regime’s senior partner, in Moscow.
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 8 July 2021
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Who else writes songs about sleepy, smiling, bald-headed girls in a coffee shop, in a small town, getting hostile glances from the locals?
—Jonathan Van Meter, SPIN, 8 Apr. 2023
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Beautiful bench in your double-headed shower?
—Mary Catherine McAnnally Scott, Southern Living, 24 Aug. 2025
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Evander threatened again with his playmaking in the 69th minute, a headed pass that made it through to Moreno.
—oregonlive, 23 Apr. 2023
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This time, the multi-headed Hydra was sent to the exit of Fox’s popular show.
—Lars Brandle, Billboard, 7 Apr. 2022
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Tarling was particularly clear-headed about that risk.
—Kate Hardcastle, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
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King left Chamonix disappointed, and also clear-headed.
—Andy Wacker, Outside, 14 Dec. 2025
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Groggy, foggy-headed, dragging through the afternoon?
—Hunter Boyce, AJC.com, 11 Feb. 2026
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Portland scored the winner in the 79th minute when Evander drilled a headed pass from Mora into the net past Melia.
—Daniel Sperry, Kansas City Star, 26 May 2024
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Only Manchester United’s Casemiro has scored more than his six headed goals across Europe’s top-five leagues this term.
—Thom Harris, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2026
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His headed goal in the subsequent friendly against Athletic Club suggests the message is getting through.
—Sukhman Singh, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2025
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Miami gave up an easy goal by unmarked Milan Iloski in the third minute after a headed pass from Frankie Westfield.
—Miami Herald, 25 May 2026
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The moviegoers who participate will match Emma Stone‘s bald-headed character in the film.
—Lexi Carson, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
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Asprilla’s first touch in the 67th minute was a headed goal, fed in by the head of McGraw after a long throw-in by Eric Miller.
—oregonlive, 2 Sep. 2023
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For the uninitiated, the show features three slick-headed, silent, slightly twitchy Blue Men who communicate through music and movement.
—Dewayne Bevil, The Orlando Sentinel, 22 May 2026
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That definition more-or-less correlates with what Opta considers ‘headed clearances’.
—Michael Cox, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2026
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Ian Ousley plays the humorously hot-headed, strategic Water Tribe warrior and brother of Katara, Sokka.
—Skyler Trepel, PEOPLE, 27 June 2026
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The peculiar requirement is an homage to Emma Stone’s character in the film, who is a bald-headed CEO who ends up kidnapped and suspected of being an alien.
—Andrew McGowan, Variety, 18 Oct. 2025
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At the time the two co-headed Viejas Entertainment and booked Viejas Concerts in the Park, Humphrey’s biggest competitor.
—George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Mar. 2026
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Xavier Becerra Becerra appears to have an even-headed, deliberate management style, according to his former associates who spoke with Politico for a recent profile of the former California attorney general.
—William Melhado, Sacbee.com, 3 June 2026
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After Zinedine Zidane’s two headed goals set Les Bleus on their way to a 3-0 win against Brazil in the final, over a million people streamed onto the Champs-Elysees in central Paris for the biggest party the country had seen since the liberation of 1944.
—Tom Williams, New York Times, 9 June 2026
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Like the tongues of a multi-headed snake, the Trail of Tears hissed through Chattanooga, Northern Alabama, Western North Carolina, Middle Tennessee and up through Southern Illinois, down through Missouri, across Arkansas before stopping in what is now Eastern Oklahoma.
—Keith Sharon, USA Today, 19 Apr. 2026
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