Example sentences for: heed

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

  • A U.N. secretary-general is a CEO, someone who needs to be independent enough to take the initiative but tractable enough to heed his board members (that is, the member states).

  • None of the day's coverage of the Willey letters pays the slightest heed to the well-known phenomenon of even physically abused women having trouble expressing their animosity towards their abusers or physically separating from them.

  • As I suggested above, they should not be paid much heed, being either the result of misconception, ignorance, lack of understanding, just plain bigotry and prejudice, or—surely later on during the dictionary controversy of the 1960s—the mere business of parroting others' Webster -bashing.

  • On Meet the Press , National Organization for Women President Patricia Ireland scoffed that the public wouldn't heed attacks on Clinton "from a Bob Barr, who's been married three times and lied under oath."

  • If Colorado's representatives were to heed term limits, the state's congressional delegation would be less powerful than the delegations from states that don't recognize term limits.


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