(a.) Willful; rash; precipitate; hurried on by will or passion; ungovernable.
(a.) Apt to affect the head; intoxicating; strong.
(a.) Violent; impetuous.
Example Sentences:
(1) Britons certainly divided over that strange, heady Diana week in 1997 and again over how to mark the millennium.
(2) But the continued uncertainty over those two World Cups adds a heady new dynamic to the mix and makes that ever more unlikely even at this early stage.
(3) They included Lena Heady (Queen Cersei Lannister), Kit Harington (Jon Snow), Conleth Hill (Lord Varys), Rose Leslie (Ygritte), 17-year-old Maisie Williams (Arya Stark) and 18-year-old Sophie Turner (Sansa Stark).
(4) Primark’s heady pace of expansion has bolstered ABF, which is grappling with lower sugar prices that have reduced profits in its core business.
(5) The cash-strapped firm, which used to be owned by the US private equity group Blackstone, emerged with some 750 homes and 31,000 residents after a period of heady growth over the last decade.
(6) Involves a heady mix of patriotism, folksy childhood memories, at least four moving montage packages and tears.
(7) Pony trekking in Glenshiel Think soft velvety noses, shaggy mains, the heady smell of saddle soap and the reassuring squeak of leather as you saddle up for a trek into the mountains on a sturdy, sure-footed Highland pony.
(8) Oxfam's Lucy Brinicombe is blogging for the Guardian from Cancún, and here's a bit of her first post : There's an air of uncertainty here, of controlled hope mixed with a hefty dose of pragmatism compared with the heady days before last year's UN climate talks in Copenhagen, where a deadline to secure a fair, safe and legally binding climate deal came – and went.
(9) Whatever the precise facts, a heady cocktail of gender, religion and alleged terrorism feeds into the story of the "white widow", making it likely to provide fodder for tabloid front pages for some time to come.
(10) The decision to shoot in monochrome, which is all too often linked to a photographic nostalgia for the heady days of reportage, is fully justified here.
(11) While white Washington experienced a heady construction and property boom, the population of the District fell from over 700,000 to half a million, while the metropolitan area, with its ring of white suburbs, became one of the wealthiest areas in the US.
(12) Even their characteristic aroma - a heady mix of singed rubber, day-old sweat, urine and Gauloise smoke - has a certain appeal.
(13) Cast your mind back to the heady days after the 1997 election.
(14) A mid an abundance of food and drink, flickering candles and a heady air of altered states,100 or so people in north London’s New Unity church watched John, a mop-haired Irishman in his late 20s, tell the story of how he learned to love through therapy, poetry and ayahuasca.
(15) "Add in ultra-low interest rates, together with the fact that not only is London outside the eurozone but the pound is weak, and you have the perfect ingredients for that heady cocktail – the safe haven investment."
(16) Those heady days may be over (if sentimentally recalled by every retailer in these communities) but cross-border shopping remains a vital source of investment for towns such as Strabane, in the west, where unemployment has historically been among the highest in the UK.
(17) In all the heady talk about changing the constitution to enshrine social rights and find a place for Catalonia, however, it is easy to lose sight of the everyday priorities of many Spaniards.
(18) With its heady media mix of graphic violence and utopian idylls, Isis has sought recruits and supporters who are further down the path toward ideological radicalisation or more inclined by personal disposition toward violence.
(19) The other reaction in South Africa has been one of apathy, partly because all attention is on Mandela, partly because excitement about Obama in Africa has waned since the heady days of 2008.
(20) In 2010 there was nothing much to lighten the hearts of those who had flocked to vote for us in the heady days of 13 years ago.
Tending
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tend
Example Sentences:
(1) These results suggest that the pelvic floor is affected by progressive denervation but descent during straining tends to decrease with advancing age.
(2) It comes in defiant journalism, like the story televised last week of a gardener in Aleppo who was killed by bombs while tending his roses and his son, who helped him, orphaned.
(3) In this study, a potassium nitrate-polycarboxylate cement was used as a liner and was found clinically to tend to preserve pulpal vitality and significantly eliminate or decrease postoperative pain.
(4) Current recommendations regarding contraception in patients with diabetes are not appropriate for the adolescent population and therefore tend to support this phenomenon rather than relieve it.
(5) Swedes tend to see generous shared parental leave as good for the economy, since it prevents the nation's investment in women's education and expertise from going to waste.
(6) Ad-infected infants tended to have earlier gestations and lower birth weights.
(7) With such protection, Dempster tended professionally to outlive those inside and outside the office who claimed that he was outdated.
(8) Fibrinolysis tended to be depressed in resting ANO patients.
(9) Treatment failures tend to occur early in the course of follow-up, permitting easy identification of candidates for alternative therapeutic approaches.
(10) Furthermore, [K+] tended to be the highest in the first sweat sample after MCh stimulation, reaching as high as 9 mM.
(11) Historically, councils and housing associations have tended to build three-bedroom houses, because that has always been seen as a sensible size for a family home.
(12) Triglyceride (Trigly) in female dogs, glutamic-pyruvic transaminase (GPT) and urea nitrogen (Urea-N) in male dogs tended to increase.
(13) The percentage of energy from fat and added sugars and the amount of sodium and fibre in the diet tended to increase with energy intake.
(14) From the third day to the fourth week after this treatment, there was some recovery of the SF rate, and the SCR tended to reappear with a marked slowing down of its habituation.
(15) Urinary Hg excretion was variable during the first 24 h after HgCl2 injection and tended to be higher with higher dosage unless the animals became anuric early on.
(16) In analyzing the results with any regimen it is important to have long follow-up since late relapses do occur and initial very positive results tend to decay with greater numbers of patients treated.
(17) The more the OKT8+ and B1+ lymphocytes infiltrated, the longer the survival (rate obtained) whereas, the infiltration of some kinds of plasma cells tended to have a negative correlation with the prognosis of the case.
(18) This fact is due to the characteristic of IgE which tends to fix itself to basophil membrane.
(19) SHR control and in-fostered animals responded similarly in the open field; however, SHR cross-fostered rats (particularly females) tended to be more active than controls.
(20) In contrast, mean diameter of normal epicardial coronary artery tended to decrease and that of irregular epicardial coronary artery decreased significantly after intracoronary injection of acetylcholine.