How to Use heady in a Sentence

heady

adjective

• The plane soared to heady heights.
• They were heady with their newfound success.
• Top cognac notes blend with saffron and leather over a base of patchouli, vanilla, and musk for a heady, unique aroma.
  — Michael Stefanov, Robb Report, 13 Aug. 2024
• That heady mix of meta-humor and real terror was right in the sweet spot of their own sensibilities.
  — Adam B. Vary, Variety, 14 Jan. 2022
• In some cases, what’s onscreen now is a time capsule from the heady early days of vaccine optimism.
  — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2022
• Yet analysts are unconvinced that the banks’ heady pace of deal-making can continue.
  — Charley Grant, WSJ, 21 Dec. 2021
• Irving is back, adding to the bottom line that really matters in sports: winning and the heady financial rewards that come with it.
  — Kurt Streeter, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2022
• That’s pretty heady stuff for someone who is 28 starts into his NFL career.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Dec. 2021
• Young Kirsten runs into the snowy woods with a vial of the poison’s antidote, compelling the adult version of herself to play a heady round of tag.
  — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 30 Dec. 2021
• And while that might seem a little heady, the experience itself is actually quite visceral.
  — oregonlive, 23 Dec. 2021
• Their collaboration suffuses the whole affair with a heady romanticism.
  — Elazar Sontag, Bon Appétit, 9 Sep. 2024
• Loki hit the ground running with a very heady premise: The God of Mischief has been recruited to help maintain the integrity of the time-space continuum.
  — Ew Staff, EW.com, 15 Dec. 2021
• 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
• 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
• All this is a heady way of saying: Let’s pit ’em against each other!
  — Kyle Buchanan, New York Times, 2 Aug. 2023
• 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
• For the uninitiated, Vegemite is a thick, dark brown, supremely salty spread that is made from a heady mix of leftover brewer’s yeast and a few other additions, including malt, folate, and riboflavin.
  — Kate McAuley, Bon Appétit, 29 Dec. 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
• On the one hand, cherries represent the simple sweetness of youth and capture the heady nostalgia of long summer days (life is but a bowl of cherries, after all).
  — Esther Newman, refinery29.com, 6 Sep. 2024
• On the page, all this may scan as intense, as Hoover’s breathless prose communicates that Lily is stuck in a heady and confusing situation.
  — Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 10 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 30 Sep 2024