How to Use heady in a Sentence

heady

adjective
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  • When the pot lid is lifted, the aromas and experience are heady.
    — Sheri Castle, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 May 2024
  • Viewers love the glitz and glamor of the races, and the heady sounds of roaring engines and screeching tires.
    — Reina Sasaki, Fortune Europe, 17 Apr. 2024
  • Their heady scent is especially pronounced on warm summer evenings.
    — Dawn Pettinelli, Hartford Courant, 13 July 2024
  • All At Once, the heady multiverse-centric thriller from filmmakers the Daniels.
    — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Oct. 2022
  • This recipe relies on a heady blend of North African spices muddled with oil, lemon and runny honey to create a soupy, fragrant paste.
    — Lynda Balslev, The Mercury News, 15 Apr. 2024
  • Meanwhile, Delta 8 is psychoactive and may offer you a somewhat heady experience.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 2 Apr. 2024
  • The offerings, which change daily, are always heady with anise and often tempered with orange blossom, violet or basil syrup, which complement the richly spiced food.
    — Becky Cooper, New York Times, 7 May 2024
  • These are heady days for studying exotic materials, from scrutinizing the second sound of heat to time crystals that persist longer than ever before.
    — Isaac Schultz / Gizmodo, Quartz, 12 Apr. 2024
  • Its intoxicating blend of sinewy R&B, skittering rock and heady psychedelia should be enhanced on an outdoor concert stage under the stars.
    — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Apr. 2024
  • The reason for this lack of your normal drive is a heady combination of Mercury and Chiron in your typically efficient 6th house.
    — Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 20 Mar. 2024
  • The questions from the audience weren’t all on the heady side.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 31 Mar. 2023
  • This is heady stuff (the pointillist dots on his sleeve!).
    — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 1 June 2023
  • Late 2022 was all about the heady discovery of what AI could do for us.
    — WIRED, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Notes of lime help balance this heavy and heady blend of aromas.
    — Felipe Schrieberg, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2022
  • His heady statements match what he’s put onscreen and on the pages of his comics over the last 60 years.
    — Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2024
  • 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
  • All this is a heady way of saying: Let’s pit ’em against each other!
    — Kyle Buchanan, New York Times, 2 Aug. 2023
  • This, then, is the heady point in time, the cultural crux, in which the Clapton letters were written.
    — Guy Martin, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024
  • Auerbach’s new work emerged from no less heady a quandary than the existence of free will.
    — Julia Felsenthal, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2023
  • The powder is a rather novel and heady invention, an anecdote of the glossy leaves on his trees.
    — Erica Zora Wrightson, Los Angeles Times, 5 Jan. 2023
  • The heady mix of sweet saffron, black pepper, amber, vanilla and more will set a cozy scene.
    — Monique Valeris, Good Housekeeping, 20 Dec. 2022
  • Other researchers are less gung ho about such heady prospects.
    — Daniel Garisto, Scientific American, 10 Aug. 2023
  • In the heady days following the Battle of Gettysburg, the press exalted Meade as the savior of the Union.
    — Nicholas Liu, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 July 2023
  • From this heady story, the film tackles themes of class, refugee crises, migration, grief, and change.
    — Marcus Jones, IndieWire, 19 June 2024
  • The heady and forward-looking serenity is too good to last.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2023
  • When the pot lid is lifted, the aromas and experience are heady.
    — Sheri Castle, Charlotte Observer, 30 Jan. 2024
  • That heady milieu would cause most young people (say, her bus-mates) to lose themselves in the fame bubble.
    — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 7 July 2024
  • Front fender flares, the black trim coming off the fenders, are wider to cover the big rubber and 6.5-inch-wide wheels—this was heady stuff for a Golf.
    — Tony Quiroga, Car and Driver, 25 Jan. 2023
  • In the heady world of campaign finance, there’s everywhere else, and then there’s Georgia.
    — Maya King Jonathan Weisman Ken Bensinger Reid Epstein Reid Epstein Maya King Reid Epstein Maya King Jonathan Weisman Jonathan Weisman Jonathan Weisman Richard Fausset Richard Fausset Jonathan Weisman Maya King Maya King Richard Fausset Maya King Maya King Reid Epstein Reid Epstein Richard Fausset Nate Cohn Richard Fausset Jonathan Weisman Maya King Nate Cohn Maya King Jonathan Weisman Nate Cohn Na, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2022
  • The regroup came after a heady and exhausting few days.
    — J.j. McCorvey, NBC News, 16 Mar. 2023

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