How to Use headless in a Sentence

headless

adjective

• All that was left of the plant was its roots and a headless trunk.
  — Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Oct. 2023
• Next, unwrap your headless body from its shroud.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 27 Aug. 2025
• Jon is the headless creature there.
  — EW.com, 19 Aug. 2025
• Inside was a headless body hung up like a deer that had been hunted.
  — Stephanie Nolasco, Fox News, 24 Sep. 2023
• Two headless corpses were found hanging from a highway bridge.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 May 2022
• Its headless neck is the perfect place to rest your weary head after a long day of work.
  — Liz Stinson, Curbed, 11 Oct. 2018
• But it's widely believed that the headless corpse wasn't hers.
  — Domenica Bongiovanni, The Indianapolis Star, 7 July 2021
• The statuette of a woman’s headless torso sits on the bar in front of them.
  — Amanda Hess, New York Times, 17 Dec. 2019
• Among the last items to remain were the headless mannequins in a far corner.
  — Abha Bhattarai, Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2019
• Attach the walls to each other with wood glue and 32mm headless pin nails.
  — Duane Bruton, Popular Mechanics, 25 Apr. 2018
• The show opened on an eerie gallery, a room full of headless human torsos cast in plaster.
  — Jeff Yang, CNN, 3 Mar. 2023
• Bag four’s tail feels heavy — though not enough to tip the still-headless body — and it’s finished with a clever tail flick.
  — Matt Gardner, Forbes.com, 26 Jan. 2026
• Next, attach the walls to each other with wood glue and 32mm headless pin nails.
  — Duane Bruton, Popular Mechanics, 29 Feb. 2020
• If anything, they’ve been downgraded to headless — in a box.
  — Jann Blackstone, Boston Herald, 26 Apr. 2026
• In one, the hands of a headless corpse grasp at the earth; most of the skin seems melted away by acid that has stained the earth blue.
  — Time, 2 Feb. 2018
• Fred is dead, his headless body hanging on the wall where miscreant handmaids were hung.
  — Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 16 June 2021
• That was before Egg’s headless body was found last year decomposed in a fish tank.
  — Heather Knight, SFChronicle.com, 13 July 2019
• The cadavers had been hacked into headless torsos and piles of limbs.
  — Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2018
• Extra points for a headless giant turtle corpse.
  — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 9 Apr. 2026
• One of these ancient statues has been sitting there headless — perhaps not for much longer.
  — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 16 May 2024
• The event also showcased the creators’ looks on headless mannequins of all body types.
  — Anne D'innocenzio, Fortune, 7 Sep. 2023
• Lotto places Odoni among headless torsos and a torso-less head.
  — J.s. Marcus, WSJ, 6 July 2018
• A week after our trip up the river, Ulseth went out on the same stretch again and found fifteen headless goats.
  — Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2022
• On its own, the headless statue measures nearly four feet tall with a shoulder width of almost two feet.
  — Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Mar. 2025
• In one image too gruesome to show, the man's headless body lies motionless on the rubble.
  — Matthew Acton, Fox News, 1 May 2018
• An astronaut makes an appearance, as does a headless man with a lobster.
  — Classical Music Critic, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2026
• There have been sightings of headless figures and shadowy figures, as well as reports of screams on the bridge.
  — Jessica Poitevien, Travel + Leisure, 25 Oct. 2021
• The resulting photos show her headless body in a long dark dress, her slender arms outstretched and shiny with the stuff.
  — Eryn Loeb, Longreads, 9 Aug. 2019
• The Romans described them as wild, headless barbarians, with faces on their chests.
  — Jo Marchant, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 June 2024
• The 80s was also a time when finding a headless corpse wasn't that uncommon.
  — Christine Pelisek, Peoplemag, 28 Sep. 2022