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head

adjective as in most important; chief

noun as in top part of an animate body

noun as in front, beginning

noun as in ability, intelligence

noun as in turning point

verb as in manage, oversee

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Example Sentences

The gunman hardly broke stride as he nonetheless shot Merabet in the head, killing him.

The scheme has been condemned by civil liberties groups and queried by the National Association of Head Teachers.

He closed his eyes, imagining the virgins, imagining away the pain in his head and groin.

I think all the traveling and all the nationalities put that stuff in my head.

“I usually see people head to the stationary bikes,” Steinbrick says.

Madame Ratignolle, more careful of her complexion, had twined a gauze veil about her head.

Only in the carnage of the head, the tilt of the chin, was the insolence expressed that had made her many enemies.

Old Mrs. Wurzel and the buxom but not too well-favoured heiress of the house of Grains were at the head of the table.

She sat straight up in bed, and jerked her hands to her head, and screamed long and terribly.

A fancy came into my head that I would entertain the king and queen with an English tune upon this instrument.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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