How to Use headless in a Sentence

headless

adjective

• All that was left of the plant was its roots and a headless trunk.
  — Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Oct. 2023
• In one, the hands of a headless corpse grasp at the earth; most of the skin seems melted away by acid that has stained the earth blue.
  — Time, 2 Feb. 2018
• The statuette of a woman’s headless torso sits on the bar in front of them.
  — Amanda Hess, New York Times, 17 Dec. 2019
• Among the last items to remain were the headless mannequins in a far corner.
  — Abha Bhattarai, Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2019
• Another time, the headless corpse of a man washed ashore.
  — Kevin Sieff, Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2019
• Attach the walls to each other with wood glue and 32mm headless pin nails.
  — Duane Bruton, Popular Mechanics, 25 Apr. 2018
• Its headless neck is the perfect place to rest your weary head after a long day of work.
  — Liz Stinson, Curbed, 11 Oct. 2018
• Next, attach the walls to each other with wood glue and 32mm headless pin nails.
  — Duane Bruton, Popular Mechanics, 29 Feb. 2020
• But it's widely believed that the headless corpse wasn't hers.
  — Domenica Bongiovanni, The Indianapolis Star, 7 July 2021
• Inside was a headless body hung up like a deer that had been hunted.
  — Stephanie Nolasco, Fox News, 24 Sep. 2023
• A week after our trip up the river, Ulseth went out on the same stretch again and found fifteen headless goats.
  — Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2022
• The headless dog can detect how many people are around.
  — Andrea Romano, Travel + Leisure, 14 May 2020
• The show opened on an eerie gallery, a room full of headless human torsos cast in plaster.
  — Jeff Yang, CNN, 3 Mar. 2023
• A couple of hours later, and less than a mile away, a burned, headless body was discovered in the woods by some kids.
  — Doug Criss, CNN, 12 June 2017
• Strapped to the camel’s back was a headless skeleton, as if the Red Ghost was being commanded from beyond the grave.
  — Scott Craven, azcentral, 24 Oct. 2019
• The event also showcased the creators’ looks on headless mannequins of all body types.
  — Anne D'innocenzio, Fortune, 7 Sep. 2023
• The headless body was buried in a lime pit, and the head was impaled on a spike and exposed for more than two decades at the south end of Westminster Hall.
  — Keith Thomas, The New York Review of Books, 8 June 2022
• Two headless corpses were found hanging from a highway bridge.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 May 2022
• A few months later, his headless body was found in a forest outside Kyiv.
  — Adam Entous, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2019
• The 80s was also a time when finding a headless corpse wasn't that uncommon.
  — Christine Pelisek, Peoplemag, 28 Sep. 2022
• That was before Egg’s headless body was found last year decomposed in a fish tank.
  — Heather Knight, SFChronicle.com, 13 July 2019
• This house, though, has a stuffed two-headed rabbit, four-legged duck and headless chicken.
  — Richard Tribou, OrlandoSentinel.com, 6 May 2018
• Things are looking brighter for Jacques, a 30-foot-tall fiberglass waiter who lost his hands, and his headless twin, Pierre.
  — Clare Ansberry, WSJ, 8 Sep. 2022
• When the skeletal remains of a torso and a headless body washed ashore at the beach below the Headlands, Sophia Lander took charge.
  — Erika I. Ritchie, Orange County Register, 10 Mar. 2017
• While Delia grieves in her very artsy way, Charles – headless and with a gurgly voice that sounds sort of like Jones – ends up in the Afterlife.
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 7 Sep. 2024
• The resulting photos show her headless body in a long dark dress, her slender arms outstretched and shiny with the stuff.
  — Eryn Loeb, Longreads, 9 Aug. 2019
• In one image too gruesome to show, the man's headless body lies motionless on the rubble.
  — Matthew Acton, Fox News, 1 May 2018
• After the seventh headless body turned up, the city government brought Ness onto the case.
  — Sam Kean, Washington Post, 16 Sep. 2022
• The cadavers had been hacked into headless torsos and piles of limbs.
  — Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2018
• An Arizona man has been charged with the murder of his childhood friend after the headless body of Alijah Bradley was found in the desert, police said.
  — Mollie Markowitz, Fox News, 10 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024