HEADING in a Sentence

Learn HEADING from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
272 example sentences for HEADING, such as:
1. Here is the first heading upon which I come.
2. This item belongs under a different heading.
3. It was undoubtedly heading away from the school.
4. They detoured around the traffic jam by heading south.
5. It rested upon a heading which sent a chill to my heart.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of HEADING
heading
 n.  the direction or path along which something moves or along which it lies
 n.  a line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
Example Sentence: (62 in 5 pages)
1  Union leaders are heading for victory in their battle over workplace rights.
2  Researchers have determined that heading a football can cause permanent injury.
3  The coach driver made several pickups before heading for the airport.
4  On current / present form the party is heading for another election victory.
5  Scientists are warning that unless carbon emissions are cut, we could be heading for an environmental catastrophe.
6  This item belongs under a different heading.
7  I've told him that he's heading for trouble, but he doesn't listen - it's just water off a duck's back.
8  I was heading on a secret mission that made my flesh crawl.
9  They detoured around the traffic jam by heading south.
10  She is accused of attempting to embezzle $405 million from the state while heading a gas company in the 1990s
11  I will be on a train heading north to the American Library.
12  Nokia opted to flesh out its range of Lumias and give us an early look at where it's heading for 2013.
13  Australian naval vessel Ocean Shield would be heading to the latest search area once it had investigated a third acoustic detection elsewhere.
14  The enemy's planes circled round and round above our heads.
15  Sometimes our hearts just need time to accept what our heads already know.