How to Use heady in a Sentence

heady

adjective

• The plane soared to heady heights.
• They were heady with their newfound success.
• Art in New York in the early 1960s made for a heady mix.
  — New York Times, 21 July 2022
• This is heady stuff, and Berger goes deep in the weeds.
  — Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Mar. 2022
• The questions from the audience weren’t all on the heady side.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 31 Mar. 2023
• This is heady stuff (the pointillist dots on his sleeve!).
  — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 1 June 2023
• At the most, a glass of heady red wine to sip together.
  — Silvia Marchetti, CNN, 21 June 2021
• Late 2022 was all about the heady discovery of what AI could do for us.
  — WIRED, 11 Aug. 2023
• Notes of lime help balance this heavy and heady blend of aromas.
  — Felipe Schrieberg, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2022
• His heady statements match what he’s put onscreen and on the pages of his comics over the last 60 years.
  — Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2024
• In this sense, a gold rush is an apt metaphor for those heady days of the early social web.
  — Sam Venis, The New Republic, 30 July 2023
• Sure, this all sounds like heady stuff, maybe even hoity-toity, but none of it would work if the whole thing weren’t so fun.
  — Vulture, 2 May 2022
• It’s heady stuff, if given a moment or two to think about it.
  — oregonlive, 29 Mar. 2021
• All this is a heady way of saying: Let’s pit ’em against each other!
  — Kyle Buchanan, New York Times, 2 Aug. 2023
• So are the echoes from those heady times when the cheers were deafening and bounced off the walls and into fans’ souls.
  — Freep.com, 11 Apr. 2021
• Viewers love the glitz and glamor of the races, and the heady sounds of roaring engines and screeching tires.
  — Reina Sasaki, Fortune Europe, 17 Apr. 2024
• Somehow, the writer, and her favorite hat, survived the heady days and nights of youth.
  — Erin Overbey, The New Yorker, 22 Aug. 2021
• Katchouk has been the best of the bunch trying for the few roster spots open, and his goal was a result of heady two-way play.
  — Eduardo A. Encina, orlandosentinel.com, 3 Oct. 2021
• The heady daytime scent has smooth base notes of cedar and vetiver.
  — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 15 Sep. 2022
• This, then, is the heady point in time, the cultural crux, in which the Clapton letters were written.
  — Guy Martin, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024
• Auerbach’s new work emerged from no less heady a quandary than the existence of free will.
  — Julia Felsenthal, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2023
• That's heady stuff, but exactly the kind of idea young people reckon with all the time.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 23 July 2022
• The powder is a rather novel and heady invention, an anecdote of the glossy leaves on his trees.
  — Erica Zora Wrightson, Los Angeles Times, 5 Jan. 2023
• It’s a heady mix, equal parts hope and belief tinged with just enough worry to keep it real.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 15 May 2021
• The heady mix of sweet saffron, black pepper, amber, vanilla and more will set a cozy scene.
  — Monique Valeris, Good Housekeeping, 20 Dec. 2022
• Other flacons filled with heady notes of amber or essences of grass mark the turning of a new leaf.
  — Bianca Salonga, Forbes, 5 Sep. 2024
• The heady growth forecasts feel far away for Nikita Jagad, who was out of work for over eight months.
  — New York Times, 16 Apr. 2021
• Other researchers are less gung ho about such heady prospects.
  — Daniel Garisto, Scientific American, 10 Aug. 2023
• Alongside is a sidecar of vanilla-tonka bean maple syrup, heady with the almond-y, fresh-hay scent of coumarin — a naturally occurring chemical in the seeds of the kumaru tree.
  — Stephanie Breijo, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2024
• Gloria obliged, balancing out Jay’s heady rhymes with spoken reminiscences, making the track feel like a mini oral history.
  — Zach Schonfeld, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 23 Dec 2024