Example sentences for: headed

How can you use “headed” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In 1543 Portuguese explorers reached Tanegashima Island, off southern Kyushu, followed over the next decade by Portuguese traders and Jesuit missionaries, headed by St Francis Xavier, who landed at Kagoshima in 1549.

  • When you fear a man approaching you may be a mugger, you may not be able to find out in the next five seconds whether he happens to be a University of Chicago intellectual headed for the New York Times editorial board.

  • He grew up in Tacoma, Seattle's soporific little-sister city, and headed first back East, and then to Venice, to study in the emerging studio glass movement.

  • Despite the fact that the local land was rich in silver, by 1865 most of the mining traffic through Las Vegas was of prospectors headed to California or Northern Nevada in search of gold.

  • On Sunday morning, I jumped out of bed early and headed to the Maxwell Street Market, the city's famous once-a-week open-air bazaar.


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