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Example sentences for "head first"

  • She felt rustling dry leaves under her boots, and stood ready to receive Jimmy, who came in head first, like one diving into an unknown sea.

  • She looked over Mabel's head first, as if she expected to see some one taller.

  • Breaching fin whales often reenter the water with a resounding splash, much like humpback whales, but sometimes smoothly, head first, as minkes sometimes do.

  • Minkes sometimes breach, leaping completely clear of the water and entering smoothly, head first, or with a substantial splash like humpback whales.

  • When they do leap clear of the water, fin whales usually reenter with a resounding splash, like that made by humpback and right whales and not smoothly, head first, as minke whales often do.

  • And Freddie wants to put him in head first, and he'll get dizzy same as I did in the swing!

  • Into the water they splashed, head first, disappearing under the waves.

  • In our act we do a long drop from the top of the tent, where you shoot straight down, head first, for fifty or sixty feet and never move a muscle until you are two feet over the net.

  • It seemed incredible that a man shooting down, head first, at such velocity would wait before turning until only two feet separated him from the net.

  • The second wasp came up head first to the entrance of her hole at two minutes after nine, as though she had been influenced, in some subtle way, by her neighbor’s example; but after looking about for a moment she went back.

  • The closing is sometimes effected by pushing the earth up backwards, with the end of the abdomen; but the hole is rather too large for this method, and more frequently the wasp comes up head first, carrying a load of earth in her front legs.

  • She entered an empty hole, head first, and at once began to gnaw at the wood, kicking it out backwards with considerable violence.

  • On arriving, the prey was placed, head first, near the entrance, while the wasp went in, probably to reassure herself that all was right.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    each carrying; good face; head and; head black; head clerk; head court; head dark; head down; head full; head quarters; headache powders; headed arches; headed arrow; headed people; headed serpent; headed snake; headed windows; headed woodpecker; headlong speed; headquarters were; looking north; make people; pour the sauce over; real gentleman; white ground; wife being