heeded; heeding; heeds
: to pay attention
: to give consideration or attention to : mind
heed what he says
heed the call
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Examples of heed in a Sentence
Verb
It may be possible to desensitize a cat to being petted for extended periods. … A safer solution is to consistently limit petting time, and to heed the cat's cues that she's had enough.
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Cat Watch, August 2008
In-line skating is not for everyone, and even those for whom it is ideally suited can skate into trouble, especially if they fail to heed safety precautions.
—Jane E. Brody, New York Times, 2 May 1991
However, he should heed an axiom from the pretelevision age: physician, heal thyself.
—George F. Will, Newsweek, 17 Mar. 1986
She failed to heed the warnings.
if we had heeded the ranger's advice, we might not have gotten lost
Noun
Neither the British ministry nor the British Parliament welcomed American voices in determining policy in 1763, or ever. The British government paid little heed to the public press on either side of the water.
—Edmund S. Morgan, New York Review of Books, 16 Nov. 2006
She retrained as a doctor and it was through her pioneering research with cancer patients in the early 1960s (she showed how narcotics could be used without adverse effect) that the medical profession began to take heed.
—Kate Kellaway, Prospect, January 2003
Imagine swimming along with playful seals and then diving down to see such rarities as batfish. … Fleets of hammerhead sharks pay divers no heed, nor do the penguins move out of the way.
—Town & Country, January 1983
took heed of the student's learning disability so as to arrive at reasonable expectations for him
pay heed to what you're doing with that knife while you're talking
Cat Watch, August 2008
In-line skating is not for everyone, and even those for whom it is ideally suited can skate into trouble, especially if they fail to heed safety precautions.
—Jane E. Brody, New York Times, 2 May 1991
However, he should heed an axiom from the pretelevision age: physician, heal thyself.
—George F. Will, Newsweek, 17 Mar. 1986
She failed to heed the warnings.
if we had heeded the ranger's advice, we might not have gotten lost
Noun
Neither the British ministry nor the British Parliament welcomed American voices in determining policy in 1763, or ever. The British government paid little heed to the public press on either side of the water.
—Edmund S. Morgan, New York Review of Books, 16 Nov. 2006
She retrained as a doctor and it was through her pioneering research with cancer patients in the early 1960s (she showed how narcotics could be used without adverse effect) that the medical profession began to take heed.
—Kate Kellaway, Prospect, January 2003
Imagine swimming along with playful seals and then diving down to see such rarities as batfish. … Fleets of hammerhead sharks pay divers no heed, nor do the penguins move out of the way.
—Town & Country, January 1983
took heed of the student's learning disability so as to arrive at reasonable expectations for him
pay heed to what you're doing with that knife while you're talking
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Greg O'Keeffe, The Athletic, 20 Dec. 2024
Tragically, the child’s family heeded the mandatory evacuation imposed two months ago, but then returned and were in hiding in their home village at the time of the attack.
—Katya Soldak, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 12 Dec. 2024
Big picture Amazon’s slate of custom chip announcements last week sent a signal to Wall Street about its preferred path forward in the AI computing boom — and Bank of America took heed, as evidenced by the downgrade.
—Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 9 Dec. 2024
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Verb
Promisingly, their pleas for more dialogue appear to have been heeded, with technical director Florent Ghisolfi and his colleagues speaking more often in recent weeks, offering more context on the decision-making.
—Greg O'Keeffe, The Athletic, 20 Dec. 2024
Tragically, the child’s family heeded the mandatory evacuation imposed two months ago, but then returned and were in hiding in their home village at the time of the attack.
—Katya Soldak, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
Noun
So take heed from Bella Hadid and abandon your contacts for your glasses.
—Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 12 Dec. 2024
Big picture Amazon’s slate of custom chip announcements last week sent a signal to Wall Street about its preferred path forward in the AI computing boom — and Bank of America took heed, as evidenced by the downgrade.
—Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 9 Dec. 2024
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“Heed.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/heed. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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