How to Use loggerhead in a Sentence

loggerhead

noun
  • The prose is at loggerheads with itself in the same way.
    Sam Sacks, WSJ, 29 Sep. 2017
  • In sum, the White House and the Fed are likely to find themselves at loggerheads.
    Sebastian Mallaby, The Atlantic, 15 May 2017
  • This is hardly the first time that the U.S. and China have been at loggerheads.
    Richard N. Haass, WSJ, 19 Oct. 2018
  • Assange and the embassy have been at loggerheads for a while.
    Alex Ward, Vox, 19 Oct. 2018
  • The Senate and House are at loggerheads over how to implement the tax break.
    Gromer Jeffers Jr., Dallas News, 15 June 2023
  • The loggerhead had gained weight since the Coast Guard rescued her from a tangle of fishing nets.
    Charles Graeber, Travel + Leisure, 6 Mar. 2021
  • Blur and OpenSea were at loggerheads in the days and weeks leading up to the latter’s decision.
    Callan Quinn, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2023
  • These loggerhead sea turtles are about half her age and size.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 10 Apr. 2024
  • Denial of Golsteyn's request could put the Army at loggerheads with the White House.
    NBC News, 10 Jan. 2020
  • The two-headed loggerhead sea turtle was one of three live babies found in a nest.
    Alaa Elassar, CNN, 31 July 2021
  • That's how the loggerhead came to the center's attention.
    Alaa Elassar, CNN, 5 Oct. 2019
  • There was no hint in the message that the two sides are at loggerheads, or that the union intends to seek a strike authorization.
    Gene Maddaus, Variety, 17 May 2024
  • Up to 40% of loggerhead turtle nests in the world are laid in Florida, according to the FWC.
    Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 14 May 2021
  • Trump is at loggerheads with Beijing over trade and has tried to put pressure on China, to be sure.
    Jen Kirby, Vox, 21 Dec. 2018
  • And, on the rough shores of the Great Barrier Reef, Kolbert watches a loggerhead turtle try and fail to find a place to lay an egg.
    Nicole Lamy, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2017
  • For starters, the two sides remained at loggerheads over what to discuss at this week’s talks, a person briefed on the matter said.
    Bob Davis, WSJ, 23 Aug. 2018
  • He and the president, who is the focus of the hearings, continue to be at loggerheads.
    Marco Della Cava, USA TODAY, 15 Dec. 2019
  • The tech and auto industries have been at loggerheads for years.
    Tim Higgins, WSJ, 11 Sep. 2017
  • The two sides have been at loggerheads for months, trading threats of tariffs and other sanctions.
    Bob Davis, WSJ, 14 May 2018
  • The loggerhead sea turtles of Florida’s Space Coast are on track to set higher records for nests.
    Fox News, 22 July 2022
  • The nests include 104 loggerheads, four green, two Kemp’s Ridley, and now one leatherback.
    Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 27 June 2023
  • The world’s two most powerful nations, the U.S. and China, are at loggerheads.
    Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Mar. 2023
  • The 170-pound loggerhead turtle lies at the bottom of his tub and waits for the perfect moment to pop his head out of the water, wave his fins and splash the dozens of onlookers.
    Catie Wegman, sun-sentinel.com, 26 June 2019
  • Watch for some of the 175 species of birds that live along the ocean and salt marsh, or other local animals like gators, dolphins, and loggerhead turtles.
    Elizabeth Rhodes, Travel + Leisure, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Other animals at the lab, two sharks and a loggerhead sea turtle, were sent to Atlanta before the storm hit.
    Doug Criss, CNN, 11 Sep. 2017
  • The United States and China, the world’s two largest economies, are increasingly at loggerheads over trade.
    Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 27 July 2018
  • At any time, there could be loggerheads, green sea turtles or other species on the mend amid the various treatment pools.
    Richard Tribou, OrlandoSentinel.com, 6 May 2018
  • The fight is taking place over beaches used for thousands of years by female loggerhead, green and leatherback turtles.
    David Fleshler, sun-sentinel.com, 8 May 2021
  • The two sides remain at loggerheads because the Council’s digging in its heels on a push to avert various spending cuts the mayor has enacted or proposed, the sources said.
    Chris Sommerfeldt, New York Daily News, 18 June 2024
  • After a slow, steady recovery in Florida, a 375-pound loggerhead sea turtle named Bubba is swimming free in the Atlantic Ocean.
    Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 13 July 2024

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