Thesaurus / level-headed

level-headed

How to use level-headed in a sentence

"Here's my authority, yuh blasted runt," he yelled, and jerked his six-shooter to a level with the policeman's breast.

RAW GOLDBERTRAND W. SINCLAIR

But he forgot the stagnant town, the bald-headed man at the club window, the organ and "The Manola."

BELLA DONNAROBERT HICHENS

Yet a child coming under the humanising influences of culture soon gets far away from the level of the savage.

But the nasty part of the whole thing was, that Haggard had won eleven thousand pounds from a weak-headed boy.

The height of the tower from the level of the street is 105 feet, the slated towers over the lateral pediments being smaller.

SHOWELL'S DICTIONARY OF BIRMINGHAMTHOMAS T. HARMAN AND WALTER SHOWELL

We were about nine hours of fair daylight traversing 160 miles of level or descending grade, with a light passenger train.

By its operation Gordon Wright, the most sensible man of our acquaintance, is reduced to the level of infancy!

CONFIDENCEHENRY JAMES

I'd have enjoyed punching his proud head, for all that; it was a dirty way to serve a man who had done his level best.

RAW GOLDBERTRAND W. SINCLAIR

It is not quite so level nor so perfectly cultivated as central Belgium, but is generally fertile and promises fairly.

Then, in heaven's name, do not put such a noble creature as Doa Inez on a level with a mere little trifling coquette.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985