How to Use heady in a Sentence
heady
adjective
- The plane soared to heady heights.
- They were heady with their newfound success.
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Art in New York in the early 1960s made for a heady mix.
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New York Times,
21 July 2022
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This is heady stuff, and Berger goes deep in the weeds.
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Neil Senturia,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
28 Mar. 2022
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The questions from the audience weren’t all on the heady side.
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Chris Willman,
Variety,
31 Mar. 2023
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This is heady stuff (the pointillist dots on his sleeve!).
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Sebastian Smee,
Washington Post,
1 June 2023
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The last few weeks have been both heady and humbling for the Biden White House.
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Rick Klein, Averi Harper,
ABC News,
25 Mar. 2021
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Smart was a heady point guard and three-year starter for the Panthers.
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Ben Steele,
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel,
27 Mar. 2021
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At the most, a glass of heady red wine to sip together.
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Silvia Marchetti,
CNN,
21 June 2021
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Late 2022 was all about the heady discovery of what AI could do for us.
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WIRED,
11 Aug. 2023
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Notes of lime help balance this heavy and heady blend of aromas.
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Felipe Schrieberg,
Forbes,
10 Oct. 2022
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His heady statements match what he’s put onscreen and on the pages of his comics over the last 60 years.
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Carlos Aguilar,
Los Angeles Times,
15 May 2024
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In this sense, a gold rush is an apt metaphor for those heady days of the early social web.
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Sam Venis,
The New Republic,
30 July 2023
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Sure, this all sounds like heady stuff, maybe even hoity-toity, but none of it would work if the whole thing weren’t so fun.
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Vulture,
2 May 2022
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It’s heady stuff, if given a moment or two to think about it.
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oregonlive,
29 Mar. 2021
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All this is a heady way of saying: Let’s pit ’em against each other!
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Kyle Buchanan,
New York Times,
2 Aug. 2023
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So are the echoes from those heady times when the cheers were deafening and bounced off the walls and into fans’ souls.
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Freep.com,
11 Apr. 2021
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Viewers love the glitz and glamor of the races, and the heady sounds of roaring engines and screeching tires.
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Reina Sasaki,
Fortune Europe,
17 Apr. 2024
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Somehow, the writer, and her favorite hat, survived the heady days and nights of youth.
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Erin Overbey,
The New Yorker,
22 Aug. 2021
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Katchouk has been the best of the bunch trying for the few roster spots open, and his goal was a result of heady two-way play.
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Eduardo A. Encina,
orlandosentinel.com,
3 Oct. 2021
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The heady daytime scent has smooth base notes of cedar and vetiver.
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Demetrius Simms,
Robb Report,
15 Sep. 2022
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This, then, is the heady point in time, the cultural crux, in which the Clapton letters were written.
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Guy Martin,
Forbes,
28 Feb. 2024
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Auerbach’s new work emerged from no less heady a quandary than the existence of free will.
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Julia Felsenthal,
New York Times,
16 Mar. 2023
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That's heady stuff, but exactly the kind of idea young people reckon with all the time.
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Christian Holub,
EW.com,
23 July 2022
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The powder is a rather novel and heady invention, an anecdote of the glossy leaves on his trees.
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Erica Zora Wrightson,
Los Angeles Times,
5 Jan. 2023
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It’s a heady mix, equal parts hope and belief tinged with just enough worry to keep it real.
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BostonGlobe.com,
15 May 2021
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The heady mix of sweet saffron, black pepper, amber, vanilla and more will set a cozy scene.
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Monique Valeris,
Good Housekeeping,
20 Dec. 2022
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Other flacons filled with heady notes of amber or essences of grass mark the turning of a new leaf.
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Bianca Salonga,
Forbes,
5 Sep. 2024
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This is a heady, serious work whose story nods to bioethics, toxic fungi, and a mysterious green paradise in the heart of a desert.
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Lewis Gordon,
Vulture,
5 Dec. 2024
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As the debate opened, the Assemblée was rowdy and restless, crackling with the heady feeling of history being made.
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Lauren Collins,
The New Yorker,
7 Dec. 2024
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