How to Use heed in a Sentence

heed

1 of 2 verb

• She failed to heed the warnings.
• 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.
  — Cat Watch, August 2008
• While the vote wasn’t binding, the GE board did heed the call.
  — Laurie Hays, Fortune, 23 Mar. 2022
• Sponsored: The proper way to heed the call of nature while in the wild.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 21 Sep. 2021
• Maybe some will hear, and heed, the warning in Hernández’s words.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 7 Sep. 2021
• Ba didn’t heed the mess while living and in death his mean squint goes right past it.
  — Longreads, 3 Aug. 2017
• So the next time your phone is buzzing with an alert, heed the warning and stay safe.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 10 Feb. 2021
• The world should heed the real message of this Olympic bid.
  — Paul Newberry, ajc, 5 Feb. 2021
• The portrait offered a warning that the king did not heed.
  — Jenny Uglow, The New York Review of Books, 9 Mar. 2022
• But heeding the wisdom of the crowd this year might not be all that wise.
  — Ben Cohen, WSJ, 13 Mar. 2018
• Those in the front of the group saw and heeded her warnings and alerted a man who was in the back of the pack, closer to the croc.
  — Travis Hall, Field & Stream, 21 Sep. 2023
• Those who want to avoid these mistakes should heed these lessons well.
  — Sophia Benoit, WSJ, 8 Sep. 2023
• Just a handful of games remain to see how the Buckeyes heed it.
  — Megan Ryan, Star Tribune, 27 Nov. 2020
• Whether or not politicians will heed these words is one thing.
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 25 Jan. 2019
• But few were awake to hear it, and the rest were too busy dreaming of dorado to heed.
  — Robert Gauthier, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2022
• Bottom pleaded guilty to failure to heed to the blue lights.
  — CBS News, 30 Apr. 2021
• And it’s not just the discount store or website that needs to heed this warning.
  — Jayme Deerwester, USA TODAY, 25 May 2022
• The second thing that the show started out with was the doctor not heeding the call.
  — Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Nov. 2017
• If a lender isn’t picking up your calls in the beginning, that may be a sign to heed.
  — Susan Naftulin, Forbes, 9 Nov. 2021
• But as in past storms, some refused to heed the warnings.
  — NBC News, 1 Nov. 2020
• And, of course, if your car has an oil-life monitor, heed that.
  — Jack Keebler, Car and Driver, 26 Apr. 2022
• Failure to heed the commands could mean death at the hands of Russian forces.
  — Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2022
• The fans heeded his call, though I’m told the scene was even more chaotic on opening day.
  — Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 7 Nov. 2023
• Rather than heed that advice, the pair decided to hedge their bets and do both.
  — Andrea Wurzburger, PEOPLE.com, 29 Oct. 2019
• The film’s warning is one the world is only beginning to heed.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 14 June 2022
• The Steers have every reason to heed their head coach’s advice.
  — Brian Gosset, star-telegram, 26 Sep. 2017
• The oldest of six, Wills did not heed her parents’ wishes.
  — Washington Post, 24 Mar. 2021
• More than 50 years later, its lessons have yet to be heeded.
  — Peter Keough, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Mar. 2018
• The board continues to fail to heed the outcry from survivors.
  — Radhika Seth, Vogue, 23 Jan. 2023
• But keeping it small is likely a piece of advice many won’t heed.
  — oregonlive, 20 Nov. 2021

Advertisement

heed

2 of 2 noun

• 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
• The fish paid no heed to a drag cinched down to the max.
  — Steve Meyer, Alaska Dispatch News, 31 Oct. 2017
• So pay heed to Moses’ and Kitch’s use of the word over the course of the play.
  — Barbara Ellis, The Know, 14 Sep. 2019
• Scan the area and try to locate the snake, then take heed and back away.
  — Mary Forgione, latimes.com, 7 June 2019
• So take heed, adults (and kids that will grow up to be adults).
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 16 Oct. 2019
• Taking heed, the MLB told its players not to take the field in Venezuela.
  — Fox News, 9 Jan. 2020
• As Brown pointed out, few gave much heed to that part of the Celtics’ first two months of the year.
  — Sean Deveney, Forbes, 3 June 2022
• In her dissent, Judge Wood urged the justices to pay heed.
  — Adam Liptak, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2023
• Britons would quite like their politicians to take heed.
  — Shafi Musaddique, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 July 2021
• As for the identity of the killer, Pearce pays little heed to the progress of the murder mystery.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 4 May 2018
• If the court in Hangzhou sides with Mr Guo, other Chinese firms will need to pay heed.
  — The Economist, 9 Nov. 2019
• Pump followed her friend’s lead; the squirrel took heed and fled.
  — Time, 23 Sep. 2022
• Twitter, which had less than 700 people on the H-1B didn’t seem to pay much heed to their plight.
  — Quartz, 9 Nov. 2022
• And even its liberals pay heed to the meaning of the law as written.
  — Jon Healey, Star Tribune, 5 Apr. 2021
• So take heed: Check to be sure that the rod is completely straight and level.
  — Devin Alessio, ELLE Decor, 18 July 2016
• But take heed to the shopper's warning and make sure to check the incense every now and then.
  — Tainaya Nash, House Beautiful, 25 June 2019
• The protesters paid little heed and vowed to press ahead.
  — Salman Masood, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2021
• In the meantime, Lee said, take heed of weather warnings.
  — Eleanor McCrary, The Courier-Journal, 26 July 2022
• So far the government has paid little heed to such gloomy talk.
  — The Economist, 14 June 2018
• Mom paid us little heed, but the cubs were very curious.
  — Colin Diltz, The Seattle Times, 9 Aug. 2017
• Rice is one of the figures who took heed of chronic flooding in her city and led a drive to adapt to climate change.
  — Katie Mettler, Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2017
• Only after the epidemic had peaked did the world pay heed.
  — The Economist, 24 May 2018
• Please take heed to the advice being shared in this letter, find a new nanny.
  — Breanna Edwards, The Root, 23 Oct. 2017
• The pitcher in those videos is the master of the mound, a man who paid little heed to batsman opposing him.
  — Zach Buchanan, Cincinnati.com, 27 June 2017
• Now the prescient Gottlieb is sounding the alarm again, and Americans ought to take heed.
  — Star Tribune, 18 Jan. 2021
• The homes, some built without heed to code, lack ties to the electricity grid and sewage systems.
  — Simon Romero, New York Times, 25 May 2018
• World leaders need to pay heed to the climate change warning signs that have been flashing for decades.
  — Alice Hill, STAT, 24 Apr. 2021
• Take heed when Indianapolis-area schools decide to close for the day.
  — Justin L. MacK, Indianapolis Star, 24 Jan. 2018
• Those who seek to unseat President Trump in the next election should take heed.
  — Maurice Samuels, Time, 15 May 2020
• Maybe, if shows like the Emmys wind down this annual war against the clock, more winners will take heed.
  — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 19 Sep. 2021

Last Updated: 9 May 2024