Example Sentences

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“You can shear a sheep for life, but you can only slaughter it once” goes an old saying that sportsbooks seem to have heeded.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 2026

Considering all of his injury issues during his eight-year Dodgers career, fans have heeded that call.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 14, 2025

The majority, she wrote, should have heeded the act’s “sweeping purpose”—to eradicate widespread disability discrimination—and read the statute’s “text in light of its aims.”

From Slate • Jun. 23, 2025

A less skilled swimmer would have heeded the warnings and not risked their life.

From Salon • Jun. 9, 2025

But even had Florence been able to find a language unmistakable in which to convey her prophecies, Elizabeth could not have heeded her because Gabriel had become her strength.

From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin