How to Use a big/swelled head in a Sentence

a big/swelled head

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  • Tyreek Hill is willing to race Adam Schefter... and give him a big head start.
    — Andy Nesbitt, USA TODAY, 3 Dec. 2020
  • Stretch is built with pieces from Spot and Atlas and that gave us a big head start.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 29 Mar. 2021
  • Hudson Rowan drew a big head with kooky, red eyes and a pink and purple face.
    — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 13 July 2022
  • This breed is almost always all white (some pups have a dark patch by their eye) and has a big head and neck.
    — Jennifer Aldrich, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 May 2021
  • King said Milwaukee has a big head start in the process, securing the event two years ahead of time.
    — Bill Glauber, Journal Sentinel, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Other countries figured this out and have gained a big head start.
    — WSJ, 8 Feb. 2022
  • Dimukeje had a big head on an undersized body, but his hands were huge.
    — Mike Preston, baltimoresun.com, 23 Mar. 2021
  • Redistricting put a third of that district into the 38th, which gave Hunt a big head start.
    — Michael Cloud, Dallas News, 24 Feb. 2022
  • The Texas Rangers manager wears a size 8 1/8 baseball cap but no one can accuse him of having a big head.
    — Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2023
  • No problem: Jonathan muscled them through the physical part of the night’s challenge, giving them a big head start on the puzzle part.
    — al, 13 Apr. 2022
  • The wideout appreciates the praise, but is hardly getting a big head.
    — Eric Walden, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Sep. 2023
  • Eventually, Orange also gets their safe open and moves on too but Purple has a big head start on the rocky climb up the mountain.
    — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 16 Dec. 2021
  • Euhaplorchis californiensis, for one, is a trematode flatworm that, in its larval stage, looks a bit like a sperm, with a big head and long tail.
    — Rachel Nuwer, Scientific American, 28 Apr. 2022
  • With a tough journey to overcome, this gelding started to gather a big head of steam heading into the turn when saving all the ground running on the rail throughout.
    — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2021
  • Kristen Bell is definitely not getting a big head at home.
    — Tracey Harrington McCoy, Peoplemag, 9 Nov. 2022
  • Even with all the adulation showered on Zappe, Meyers said there was no fear of the kid getting a big head over his newfound fame and popularly.
    — Karen Guregian, Hartford Courant, 10 Oct. 2022
  • The shared anatomy hints that being a meat-eater with a big head led dinosaurs like Meraxes to evolve a similar body plan to T. rex, with small arms that could be kept out of the way of struggling prey.
    — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Dec. 2022
  • As Gilly, the actress plays a troublemaking elementary school student with a big head of hair and a habit of disrupting class.
    — Georgia Slater, PEOPLE.com, 20 Dec. 2020
  • Ernie Kranias, Linda’s widower, will tell you that a big head was the last thing Linda would have ever exhibited, in any aspect of life.
    — Amanda Loudin, Outside Online, 7 Nov. 2019
  • This phony resemblance allows the virus to get a big head start on infecting cells before the immune system ever recognizes a threat.
    — Anna Funk, Discover Magazine, 11 Sep. 2020
  • Starlink has a big head start, however, and the service is expected to represent the majority of SpaceX’s revenue at some point next year, according to Bloomberg.
    — Steve Mollman, Fortune, 2 Dec. 2023
  • But in a business with huge capital costs and thin profit margins, Chinese companies have a big head start after years of state funding and experience.
    — Keith Bradsher, New York Times, 16 May 2023
  • The acquisition of National Instruments gives Emerson a big head start on building out that market segment.
    — Thomas Black, Bloomberg.com, 12 Apr. 2023
  • The community is invited to pick up one or all three kits: A gingerbread house felt ornament kit, a big head gingerbread foam ornament kit, and a gingerbread house picture frame.
    — courant.com, 19 Nov. 2020
  • For 20 years, Marlow Foods held patents over the fermentation process used to produce Quorn, and although those patents are now expired, the company has had a big head start in producing mycoprotein at an industrial scale.
    — Matt Reynolds, Wired, 8 Aug. 2021
  • Vaccines work, broadly speaking, by teaching your body how to fight off specific infections, essentially giving your immune system a big head start.
    — Jayme Fraser, USA TODAY, 10 Aug. 2021
  • Democrats were already going to have a hard time holding the seat with Manchin as their standard bearer; now, Republicans are virtually guaranteed to flip it, giving them a big head start in their race to recapture a Senate majority.
    — Nathaniel Rakich, ABC News, 10 Nov. 2023
  • The comedian opines on how having a big head (both physically and metaphorically) can affect one's use of personal protective equipment.
    — CBS News, 5 Nov. 2020
  • Amazon is betting its system advances the state of the art, and can offer the capacity and internet speeds to compete not just with Starlink, which has a big head start, but with terrestrial telecommunications companies.
    — Matt Day, Fortune, 18 Dec. 2023

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