How to Use heady in a Sentence

heady

adjective
  • The plane soared to heady heights.
  • They were heady with their newfound success.
  • The heady heights of a show court could await.
    — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 27 Aug. 2025
  • That’s a pretty heady place to live.
    — Scott Feinberg, HollywoodReporter, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Fox will launch the new service at a heady time.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 5 Aug. 2025
  • If all of this sounds a little heady, that is the point.
    — Britt Julious, Chicago Tribune, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Indeed, these are heady times for Kouts.
    — Michael Osipoff, Chicago Tribune, 20 Jan. 2026
  • But the heady linebacker read his eyes from the get-go and jumped the ball.
    — Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Keep in mind your brain doesn’t have to such a heady subject alone, so to speak.
    — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Notes of lime help balance this heavy and heady blend of aromas.
    — Felipe Schrieberg, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2022
  • The tip of a knife will cause the heady filling to burst forth, to be spooned around.
    — David Tanis, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2018
  • This is heady with ripe peach, guava and a hint of pineapple.
    — Laura Ness, Mercury News, 13 Apr. 2025
  • And that heady thrust is available across a much wider powerband.
    — Lawrence Ulrich, Robb Report, 12 June 2026
  • The two can’t shake that old heady attraction.
    — Nora Dahlia, PEOPLE, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Smart was a heady point guard and three-year starter for the Panthers.
    — Ben Steele, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 Mar. 2021
  • Tillman is a heady, savvy big man who has an innate feel for the game.
    — Mike Singer, The Denver Post, 11 Apr. 2020
  • Regardless, those heady days are long gone.
    — Andrew Carey, CNN Money, 20 Jan. 2026
  • In this sense, a gold rush is an apt metaphor for those heady days of the early social web.
    — Sam Venis, The New Republic, 30 July 2023
  • This is the headiest, most in-love song on the album.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 26 Sep. 2025
  • The heady daytime scent has smooth base notes of cedar and vetiver.
    — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 15 Sep. 2022
  • The questions from the audience weren’t all on the heady side.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 31 Mar. 2023
  • All of which brings a heady mix of East and West to Hardy’s work.
    — Robert Taylor, The Mercury News, 23 July 2019
  • For heady listeners, this will be a field day; for others, a test of faith.
    — Lily Goldberg, Pitchfork, 22 May 2026
  • Those heady days of yore have been in the rearview mirror for Issa for some time.
    — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Dec. 2025
  • Even though the recent gains for gold have been heady, the price has been climbing for the past few years.
    — Eshe Nelson, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2025
  • The ideas here are heady but compelling, and the prose stays grounded and rich and lovely.
    — Constance Grady, Vox, 21 Dec. 2018
  • 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.
    — Vulture, 2 May 2022
  • The sauce for the tofu tacos was a heady, smart mix of peanut butter, gochujang and sesame oil.
    — Jenn Harrisstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2020
  • These are heady ideas, and Silent Friend is certainly a brainy film.
    — Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 6 Sep. 2025
  • The heady days when Merseyside was a centre of global trade may be long gone.
    — Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2025

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