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Example sentences for "her head"

  • Instead of these, a tiger's hide o'erspread Her back and shoulders, fasten'd to her head.

  • Her heavy, dun-coloured hair was coiled on top of her head.

  • Then, often very late indeed, she came in, with her long stride, her head bowed, her face hidden under her bat of dark green velvet.

  • Clara wore a blouse of fine silk chiffon, with narrow black-and-white stripes; her hair was done simply, coiled on top of her head.

  • A grief and shame made her bend her head.

  • In this room a small woman with a red serge blouse, and her black hair done on top of her head, was waiting like a proud little bantam.

  • Then the nurse dressed her in a robe of pale green and gold brocade, and combed out her long fair hair till it floated round her like a golden mantle, and put on her head a crown of roses and jasmine with emerald leaves.

  • He reached up for her big, rough straw hat that hung on a peg outside the door, and put it on her head.

  • The hat rested any way on her yellow-brown hair, that waved a little, was heavy, and clung close to her head.

  • Her head began to ache, and the lights on the altar swayed before her eyes.

  • She clasped her hands easily above her head, and it was thus she fell asleep.

  • She bust out crying while she was talking, but I reckon that is better than being out of her head.

  • The girl, as she passed, seized one end of the basket and helped the old woman to raise it to her head, where it rested solidly on the cushion of her head-kerchief.

  • Green heard Rena running on while she was out of her head, and I reckon he must have suspicioned something, for he looked kind of queer and went away without saying nothing.

  • And here they found Circe bathing her head in the salt sea-spray, for sorely had she been scared by visions of the night.

  • Thus she spake, and straightway a torrent of tears gushed forth and low down she clasped her sister's knees with both hands and let her head sink on to her breast.

  • Her hair was tousled by wind and bushes, her face flushed, and she lifted her arms above her head, working to loosen a cocoon she had found.

  • But in deference to her mother's feelings the girl set her teeth, and bound her hair closely to her head with a shoe-string.

  • What this radiant young creature, gowned in the most recent style, her smooth skin flushed with excitement, and a rose-set coronet of red gold on her head, had to do with the girl they knew was difficult to decide.

  • Then she untied the narrow black ribbon, wet the comb and plastered the waving curls close to her head, bound them fast, pinned on the skimpy black hat and opened the back door.

  • Elnora forgot everything save her books, and that she was where she could use them intelligently--everything except one little thing away back in her head.

  • She carried a pot on her head, of red and black earthenware.

  • Oh, the slow cold drip of the minutes on her head!

  • It was as though a great blaze of electric light had been turned on in her head, and her poor little anguished self shrank and cowered in it, without knowing where to take refuge.

  • She paused a moment, and as he seemed to await a farther explanation, added with a quick lift of her head: "You will perhaps excuse me from giving you these reasons.

  • She preferred to carry her little hat of sewed straw, with its long white strings, in her hand rather than on her head.

  • She had gold and pearls for her dowry; but her gold was on her head, and her pearls were in her mouth.

  • She wove garlands of poppies, which she placed on her head, and which, crossed and penetrated with sunlight, glowing until they flamed, formed for her rosy face a crown of burning embers.

  • She had a smart little straw hat on her head, with a white veil twisted round it.

  • She has told me with her own lips (this, dear lady, is between ourselves) that she loves another man, and that her only idea in marrying me is to try and put that other man out of her head.

  • The girl's face was all in a flush as she made me that answer; and she walked away with a toss of her head and a look of self-importance which I was quite at a loss to account for.

  • Her head dropped on the cushions; and she burst out crying.

  • If ever he forgets it--if ever he injures a hair of her head!

  • And a good job too," cried the housekeeper, with a toss of her head.

  • Her head drooped as she walked, and one of the nurses, with her arm round her waist, was whispering consolation in her ear.

  • He saw the feminine droop of her head, and the curve of her beautiful throat.

  • She had thrown aside her hat, and in doing so had half released some of the heavy strands of hair coiled at the back of her head.

  • She beckoned him with a gesture of her head, and he followed her up a broad staircase, magnificent in its structural appointments of inlaid woods, and carpeted with what to his feet felt like down.

  • It was Alice who spoke, opening the door from the kitchen, and putting in her head with a pretence of great and solemn caution, but with a correcting twinkle in her eyes.

  • I'll not wake him,' she said, covering her face and hanging down her head.

  • Much better,' interposed Susan, with another emphatic shake of her head.

  • Drunk and scared, she struggled to remember the something-something-one number in her head, but no rhyme came.

  • She opened her eyes and shook her head, then smiled slowly, joyfully.

  • Touching her hand to her head for an instant, she relaxed a little, felt a little laugh begin in her chest at the comedy of his panic.

  • Unaware of her own action she had raised her head, as though all of him would become clearer if she trained her closed lids in his direction.

  • Then her eyes bulging as her head splashed up out of the sea's redness.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "her head" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    came the; cutting machine; her beautiful; her brain; her brow; her cheeks; her countenance; her course; her cousin; her daughter; her eye; her first; her forehead; her grandfather; her mind; her people; her room; her shoulder; her uncle; her with; her work; here speaking; here the; here translated; heroic poetry; herself again