The head used to come off about half the time.

"I remember that head used to be very particular about its clothes."

And you haven't got that twiddly bit any more where your head used to go.

The company's new head of operations, in fact, used to be the postmaster general.

How can the head of our most high-profile national department not use e-mail as the powerful communication tool that it is?

A cooler head might have used the wound to his advantage.

A big heavy knife quivered from the wooden wall right where Calvin's head used to be.

"I'm getting used to looking in the mirror and seeing a pile of coleslaw where my head used to be."

She shook her head in the mock playfulness one might use toward a child who had done ill but did not under- stand.

Throughout the history of Greece, various heads of state have used different flags.