How to Use subhead in a Sentence

subhead

noun
  • Try keeping copy on the short side and breaking it up with subheads, graphics and sidebars.
    Elizabeth Baskin, Forbes, 9 Sep. 2024
  • Branum breaks up her novel into fragments, some only a paragraph long, and each with its own subhead.
    Washington Post, 25 Jan. 2022
  • The paragraphs that followed that subhead also followed suit.
    Frank Bruni, Star Tribune, 22 Feb. 2021
  • If that subhead just gave you a sensory overload, beeline to Cranston.
    Lauren Daley, BostonGlobe.com, 16 June 2022
  • On the screen, a little essay appeared, with sections, subheads, and emojis.
    Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Break things up into concise points and, where necessary, insert subheads — as there are in this article.
    Harry Guinness, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2020
  • The language of the headline and the subhead promise disquieting news.
    Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2020
  • Kevin Dopart and Tom Witte both submitted the honorable-mentions subhead.
    Pat Myers, Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2022
  • The only edits the professors made were adding subheads for the paper’s different sections and some references.
    Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 23 Mar. 2023
  • In a regular article, subheads are important so people can easily search for a topic.
    As Told To Patricia R. Olsen, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2017
  • The headline for this week’s results is by Kevin Dopart; Chris Doyle wrote the honorable-mentions subhead.
    Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2019
  • But even without a provocative subhead on this year’s poster, Waters has a guess as to why fans continue to spend at least one night of their holiday with him year after year.
    Scott McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Dec. 2022
  • This story has been updated to correct the spelling of Mission Barns in the subhead and the amount of venture capital the company has raised so far.
    Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 7 Apr. 2021
  • And these sites look almost identical, with representations of analog newspaper headlines and subheads on white backgrounds.
    Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 31 Oct. 2019
  • The headline for this week’s results is by Jon Ketzner; Chris Doyle wrote the honorable-mentions subhead.
    Washington Post, 20 May 2021
  • An earlier subhead of the story incorrectly stated the model was developed by the parent company.
    Kimberly Chin, WSJ, 27 Aug. 2018
  • The claim in the subhead, which says early tax reporting shows low-income men spent most of their money on NFTs in 2021, is also wrong.
    Sudiksha Kochi, USA TODAY, 23 Nov. 2021
  • Jeff Contompasis and William Kennard sent the honorable-mentions subhead.
    Washington Post, 15 July 2021
  • Subheads detailed new service levels on the rails, changes to bus schedules and fare increases, all of which riders have particularly bemoaned given three major service disruptions over four days.
    Rachel Siegel, Washington Post, 26 June 2017
  • The subhead in particular uses poor grammar throughout, inconsistent with a news operation on the scale of Fox Business Network.
    Eric Litke, USA TODAY, 11 Sep. 2020
  • As part of the morbid support of the rapper’s upcoming 12th studio album, the obit shrewdly has quote marks around the subhead that had fans thinking Slim Shady was dropping a hint about the project’s possible lead single.
    Michael Saponara, Billboard, 14 May 2024
  • Where male winners for the paper saw their names rendered in the subhead of an article announcing the year’s Pulitzers, McCormick’s was not, nor did the article mention her prize until the story’s fifth paragraph.
    Literary Hub, 24 Feb. 2026

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