Example Sentences

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One of the crew members said ships were heeding the warning.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 18, 2026

In Germany, there were signs that households and small and medium-sized businesses were heeding calls to cut energy usage as consumption last week fell below the average of previous years, helped by warmer weather.

From Reuters • Oct. 13, 2022

Jammed highways in the New Orleans area showed many were heeding the warnings.

From Fox News • Aug. 29, 2021

Few were heeding the experts who insisted that the nation, the world, had become one ocean of disease and that its currents might be delayed but would eventually reach every shore.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 12, 2020

I was glad the girls were heeding my advice not to embellish because at that moment nothing we could have said would have made things better for them.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall