How to Use heading in a Sentence

heading

noun
  • What is your current heading?
  • His paintings usually fall under the heading of realism.
  • We organized all the recipes under different subject headings.
  • That is the heading over this obit in the New York Times.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 24 June 2024
  • All three teams are state-ranked heading to the playoffs.
    Jason McDaniel, Houston Chronicle, 16 Feb. 2018
  • That is the heading over a story in the Wall Street Journal, here.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 26 Sep. 2024
  • App State led 5-0 heading to the bottom of the fifth before Troy scored five times.
    Creg Stephenson | Cstephenson@al.com, al, 24 May 2023
  • Women have won 45 (and were the top vote-getters in 2 more heading to runoffs).
    Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 25 May 2018
  • The Celtics drop to 57-15 on the season but still own the league’s best record heading towards the postseason.
    Sam Joseph, CNN, 26 Mar. 2024
  • But the venue is still drawing big shows for the fall and heading into spring next year.
    Troy L. Smith, cleveland.com, 26 Feb. 2018
  • Now, the daughter is a high school senior heading to college in the fall.
    Linda Robertson, Miami Herald, 26 Jan. 2025
  • The Bucks — at the top of the league heading into that matchup — had their weaknesses laid bare.
    Matt Velazquez, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 Feb. 2020
  • The Sox were up 3-0 heading in the ninth inning, and the game (along with any money on the Red Sox or the under) seemed safe.
    Nestor Ramos, BostonGlobe.com, 17 May 2018
  • This falls under the same heading as making light of tragedies.
    Maia Niguel Hoskin, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2021
  • This falls under the same heading as making light of tragedy, so steer clear.
    Sam Escobar, Good Housekeeping, 26 June 2020
  • This feels like it’s still wide open heading into the summer.
    Stephen Means, cleveland, 7 May 2022
  • The rest of the season is a chance for Fox to cement his place as the leader on the court heading into the summer.
    Jason Jones, sacbee, 1 Apr. 2018
  • Check the box under the Offline heading, and your recent Docs, Sheets, and Slides files will start to be synced.
    David Nield, WIRED, 24 July 2024
  • The Chargers were rolled by the Ravens, but the Chargers staff is quite pleased with their 4-2 record heading into their off week.
    Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2021
  • It’s not only the defense that’s healthy heading into the game.
    cleveland, 6 Sep. 2021
  • But this program's heading to Texas with a trophy on its mind.
    Nick Baumgardner, Detroit Free Press, 25 Mar. 2018
  • Within a year of the youngest heading off to school, my mom retired from teaching.
    Erin Sauder, Elgin Courier-News, 8 June 2018
  • Tanks were also fitted with wind sensors to detect the speed and heading of the wind.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 28 Jan. 2022
  • Dallas shot nine of 10 from the stripe in the third, cutting the deficit to nine heading into the final quarter.
    Akeem Glaspie, Indianapolis Star, 8 June 2019
  • Murray plowed in for a pair of short rushing touchdowns of his own, and the Saints led 35-21 heading in the fourth quarter.
    Jeff Nowak, NOLA.com, 4 Oct. 2020
  • For each, the leash already was short heading into the World Series.
    Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2019
  • Emerging from the jungle, Wang took a canoe heading for a refugee camp.
    Yong Xiong, Selina Wang and Nectar Gan, CNN, 17 Aug. 2022
  • That’s huge heading into @Big12Conference play for Bears.
    Michael Haag, Dallas News, 7 Jan. 2023
  • Michigan State is likewise red hot heading into this matchup, as the Spartans have won their last four games, including a dramatic 58-55 win over Maryland just this week.
    Dan Perry, Newsweek, 2 Mar. 2025
  • An EasyJet flight heading to England was forced to make an emergency landing in Greece after the pilot reportedly collapsed.
    Escher Walcott, People.com, 10 Feb. 2025

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