How to Use headman in a Sentence

headman

noun

• And then late in the first, Kaprizov went for a headman pass that Rask skated into but again Fleury blocked the attempt.
  — Sarah McLellan, Star Tribune, 26 May 2021
• Thompson has been the headman at Belfry for eight years and has been coaching high school basketball for 24.
  — Hayes Gardner, The Courier-Journal, 12 Mar. 2021
• Lunana’s headman, Kaka, who goes by one name, said the most important part of the vaccination campaign was not on the ground, but in the sky.
  — New York Times, 18 Apr. 2021
• The village headman said his neighbors were discussing how best to maintain their neighbor’s Trump shrine.
  — New York Times, 14 Oct. 2020
• Chickens, dogs, and small children scatter as the chief walks solemnly toward a seating area outside the headman’s hut.
  — Abigail Haworth, Marie Claire, 19 Mar. 2018
• Emerging as the headman of the peaceful protest movement, Stefan Perez, the 16-year-old leader of Monday's protest, held a bullhorn and urged people to go home just before the 8 p.m. curfew.
  — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 2 June 2020
• The headman of the first flood-prone Fijian community resettled by the government bemoans the burial grounds abandoned to the sea.
  — The Economist, 17 Aug. 2019
• Alan Koch, who was hired in December as an assistant coach and director of scouting and analytics, was the new headman.
  — Charlie Hatch, Cincinnati.com, 21 Oct. 2017
• The headman was a strikingly handsome, muscular man, wearing a beaded antelope hide tied over one shoulder, a pair of denim shorts and tire-tread sandals.
  — WSJ, 9 Oct. 2018
• Zurga prods his townspeople into urgent business: A new village headman must be chosen.
  — Anthony Tommasini, New York Times, 1 Jan. 2016
• Robin Naiding, the mild-mannered gaonbura, or headman, of Baga Dima, a village in the jungled hills northeastern India, isn’t sure why much of humanity enjoys imbibing drinks through a small plastic tube.
  — National Geographic, 22 Jan. 2020
• The Labuschagnes also gave radios to community headmen around the park, encouraging them to phone in suspicious activities, and promising tighter security in the region.
  — Brent Stirton, National Geographic, 28 Jan. 2017
• In a hamlet nestled deep in Sumatra’s palm country, headman Slamet — who, like many Indonesians, goes by only one name — was eagerly showing off a 267-meter stretch of concrete to the nation’s minister for villages one recent March afternoon.
  — Andy Mukherjee | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2019
• Western Michigan football will temporarily be without its headman.
  — Tyler J. Davis, Detroit Free Press, 21 Sep. 2021
• Village headmen are influential figures in their communities.
  — Kankanit Wiriyasajja, The Seattle Times, 11 July 2017

Last Updated: 28 Sep 2024