Example sentences for: headline--

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

  • The story's headline--"Feds Triple Health Fraud Cases"--commits the sin of a vacuous comparison, but the body explains that the baseline year for the comparison with current prosecutions is 1993.

  • The headline over the NYT 's online version doesn't mention the homosexual angle, while the WP 's headline--"FRANCE LEGALIZES GAY UNIONS"--doesn't mention the heterosexual angle.

  • While the WP is optimistic--"The ceremony fulfilled the hopes of organizers who wanted the event to provide a grand gesture of reconciliation"--the NYT story takes the tone of its headline--"Russia's Conflicts on Display at Burial."

  • The WP downplays the casualties as well, running its Bosnia story at the bottom of the front page, omitting mention of them in its headline--"Bosnian Serb's Backers Stone American Troops"--and not getting to them in the piece until the seventh paragraph.

  • It's USAT that recognizes this as the most damaging detail, emphasizing it above all else in its headline--"Soldiers Lack Confidence in Their Officers"--and lead: "Soldiers have deep misgivings about their commanders and don't feel confident about following them into combat, a harsh Army report said Thursday."


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