headlines

nounhead

Synonyms for headlines

noun head

Word Origin & History

1670s, from head (n.) in sense "heading of a book or chapter" (c.1200) + line (n.). Originally a printers' term for the line at the top of a page containing the title and page number; used of newspapers from 1890, and transferred unthinkingly to broadcast media. Headlinese "language peculiar to headlines" is from 1927. Headlines "important news" is from 1908.

Example Sentences for headlines

Then suddenly it burst forth again in the headlines of the world.

These headlines stared at me as I opened the paper at the restaurant table.

By pressing tightly against the mesh Bentley could see the headlines.

At the top of the first column of the first page were the headlines.

He snatched at the paper, read the headlines, standing there in the middle of the room.

As for the headlines, the sensational proclamations—they will come at the end.

It seemed to me that the whole paper was headlines, it was in such a state of excitement.

These were the headlines which everywhere caught the public eye, and drew the crowds.

"Oh, I suppose I had glanced at the headlines," says Hartley.

It made more than the headlines of the college campus at Mentioch.

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