HEADING in a Sentence

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272 example sentences for HEADING, such as:

1. Two heads are better than one.
2. The jet zoomed low over our heads.
3. The machine gun hailed over our heads.
4. The data can be grouped under four heads.
5. Somebody lopped the heads off our tulips.

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 Meanings and Examples of HEADING
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
heading
 n.  course or direction in which a ship or aircraft is moving; title, subtitle, or topic that stands at the top or beginning
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  One of the articles had a pencil mark at the heading, and I naturally began to run my eye through it.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
2  There was Mrs. Manresa, with Giles at her side, heading the procession.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 9
3  Here is the first heading upon which I come.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In III. A CASE OF IDENTITY
4  It rested upon a heading which sent a chill to my heart.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS
5  Blindly we ran through the gloom, blundering against boulders, forcing our way through gorse bushes, panting up hills and rushing down slopes, heading always in the direction whence those dreadful sounds had come.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12. Death on the Moor
6  It was undoubtedly heading away from the school.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In V. THE ADVENTURE OF THE PRIORY SCHOOL
7  Mrs. Merriwether felt that the South was heading for a complete moral collapse and frequently said so.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
8  Tashtego reporting that the whales had gone down heading to leeward, we confidently looked to see them again directly in advance of our bows.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 47. The Mat-Maker.
9  But suddenly reined back by some counter thought, he hurried towards the helm, huskily demanding how the ship was heading.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 124. The Needle.
10  He started to speak again, but she rushed on frantically, heading him off.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15
11  The next time it come I see I warn't heading for it, but heading away to the right of it.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV.
12  He gave an angry thrust to his horse, which had grown restive under him, and plunged into the water, heading for the deepest part where the current was swift.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER II
13  The captain of the distressed vessel, at last heading the injunction, cast down his bucket, and it came up full of fresh, sparkling water from the mouth of the Amazon River.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XIV.
14  The clumps of trees in the snow seemed to draw together in ruffled lumps, like birds with their heads under their wings; and the sky, as it paled, rose higher, leaving the earth more alone.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
15  They had the vigor and alertness of country people who have spent all their lives in the open and troubled their heads very little with dull things in books.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
Example Sentence: (62 in 5 pages)
16  The task force is comprised of congressional leaders, cabinet heads and administration officials.
17  We beat their heads off at an English competition.
18  The Prime Minister was received with all the traditional pomp and ceremony that is laid on for visiting heads of government.
19  Two heads are better than one.
20  The data can be grouped under four heads.
21  He went over the heads of union officials, appealing directly to the workforce.
22  The machine gun hailed over our heads.
23  At last they hurled huge stones at enemy's heads.
24  If you two boys don't stop quarrelling immediately, I'll knock your heads together.
25  The jet zoomed low over our heads.
26  Mrs Meddeman heads the fund-raising committee.
27  Enormous apples open to reveal singing heads inside, as smaller apples dance along ropes like bouncing musical notes.
28  Somebody lopped the heads off our tulips.
29  Standard examples were drummed into students' heads.
30  Alice cried with a sudden burst of tears, 'I do wish they WOULD put their heads down! I am so VERY tired of being all alone here!'