Sample Sentences for
heed
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    The boy swore that, every time he heard the alarm, he would heed its message.  (source)
    heed = pay attention (and do what the alarm requires)
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    Beorn seemed to be growing drowsy and paid little heed to them.  (source)
    heed = attention
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    You are a fool if you do not heed my words.  (source)
    heed = do what is suggested by
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    Now, if the white men had taken heed to what the river was trying to say to him then, it would have saved a lot of pain later.  (source)
    heed = paid close attention
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    Little Ann would jump and bounce and try to get Old Dan to play, but the solemn old boy just jogged along, heedless of everything.  (source)
    heedless = ignoring (not paying attention)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-less" in heedless means without. This is the same pattern you see in words like fearless, homeless, and endless.
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    I think he would have been surprised to know that I actually heeded his warning,  (source)
    heeded = paid attention to
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    It rolled unheeded and broke against the fender.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unheeded means not and reverses the meaning of heeded. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    Although at my mother's heeding I had gone through all the required Sacraments, some years back I stopped religious instruction, making confession or attending Mass.†  (source)
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    The bush boy walked on: unheeding, apparently unhearing: like a sleep-walker.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unheeding means not and reverses the meaning of heeding. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    The last house in the subdivision was still under construction, but the shoeless boy dashed heedlessly through the lumber and loose nails.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-lessly" in heedlessly means in a manner that is without. This is the same pattern you see in words like harmlessly, fearlessly, and remorselessly.
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    Ancient poetry and mythology suggest, at least, that husbandry was once a sacred art; but it is pursued with irreverent haste and heedlessness by us, our object being to have large farms and large crops merely.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-lessness" in heedlessness means in a state without. This is the same pattern you see in words like fearlessness, powerlessness, and harmlessness.
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    For the rest of the week he heeds his own advice: keeps his head down, does what he is asked, never argues.†  (source)
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    At the ending-stave then it after befalleth That the shell of his body sinks fleeting away, And falleth all fey; and another one fetcheth, E'en one that undolefully dealeth the treasure, The earl's gains of aforetime, and fear never heedeth.†  (source)
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-eth" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She heedeth" in older English, today we say "She heeds."
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