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noun

header

a line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about

In a sentence

Six example sentences with header, each labelled with its topic.

  • Skim the bold header on each section and you will find the migration steps without reading the whole manual.

    Technology

  • Dickens gave every chapter a playful header promising exactly which disaster the reader was about to meet.

    Literature

  • The clerk rejected the filing because the header omitted the case number the court uses for indexing.

    Law

  • Each slide in the deck opens with a header that states its conclusion, so a rushed executive can skim the argument.

    Business

  • The journal requires a header above each section, and reviewers complained that Methods and Results had been merged under one.

    Science

  • The manifesto's bold header on housing promised more than the three short paragraphs beneath it ever delivered.

    Politics

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