How to Use lead in a Sentence

lead

1 of 3 adjective
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  • The lead buck, a 140-class 9-pointer, stopped just behind her.
    — Hayden Sammak, Outdoor Life, 4 Jan. 2024
  • In this case, the rock is actually a lead weight with a mass of 130 grams.
    — WIRED, 28 July 2023
  • The show’s creator and lead voice actor, Justin Roiland, is no longer with the show.
    — Lisa Respers France, CNN, 26 Sep. 2023
  • Murphy currently looks up to one of the lead groundsmen at the club.
    — Asif Burhan, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2024
  • Bruce had been a late addition to the cast, taking over the lead role when the play moved to Off-Broadway.
    — Alex Gurley, Peoplemag, 3 Mar. 2024
  • David Boies, one of the lead lawyers for the victims, said the bank was prepared to pay $290 million to resolve the lawsuit.
    — Matthew Goldstein, New York Times, 12 June 2023
  • Some cities with a lot of lead pipes might be given longer deadlines, the agency said.
    — CBS News, 30 Nov. 2023
  • The lead base runner, who had been on second, scored as the pitcher fell to the grass near the mound, mobbed by his teammates.
    — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 31 May 2023
  • Prince’s lead guitar and Eric Leeds’ so-ahead-of-its-time flute solo up the ante.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 24 Nov. 2023
  • The opening act, The Black Crowes, presumably had a lead singer onstage.
    — Wayne Parry, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Sep. 2023
  • In the roughly minute-long phone call, his son’s years-long dream of landing a lead role had been taken away.
    — Praveena Somasundaram, Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2023
  • Robbie Robertson, the songwriter and lead guitarist of The Band, has died.
    — Joseph Pisani, WSJ, 9 Aug. 2023
  • This marks the latest lead role in a limited series for Seyfried.
    — Joe Otterson, Variety, 26 Jan. 2024
  • His role as Patrick Star in this year’s musical was but a follow-up to last year’s lead role.
    — Julia Moore, Peoplemag, 7 Nov. 2023
  • Greg Olsen, the lead analyst on the broadcast, went as far as bragging that Ms. Swift had once liked one of his tweets.
    — Benjamin Hoffman, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2024
  • On the flip side, a movie is just enough time to put a Kiki man in a lead role and captivate an audience.
    — Sabrina Talbert, Women's Health, 24 June 2023
  • Playing the lead role of Donna gives Sherrill plenty of moments to shine.
    — Ross Raihala, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2024
  • Lee is lead plaintiff in a lawsuit against Trump over his role in the Jan. 6 insurrection.
    — Laurel Rosenhall, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Results of the lead sampling would have to be publicly available online.
    — Dorany Pineda, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2023
  • Karen Gilbert, one of the lead attorneys also on the special counsel team, is a Biden and Obama donor, records show.
    — Gabe Kaminsky, Washington Examiner, 5 Aug. 2023
  • Gerard was, as always, one of the lead dancers and was scheduled to appear in numerous pieces.
    — Matt Kempner, ajc, 23 June 2023
  • This is the first time most people will be seeing David Dastmalchian in a proper lead role.
    — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Nov. 2023
  • The lead character has to witness violence, like trauma in front of her, to process her own.
    — Bryan Reesman, SPIN, 12 June 2023
  • The rule would require water systems to replace a minimum of 10% of their lead pipes each year.
    — Denise Chow, NBC News, 30 Nov. 2023
  • At this time, Foster and Reis are not attached to the fifth installment, as the show has changed its lead actors with each new season.
    — Joe Otterson, Variety, 22 Feb. 2024
  • They're all gathered to watch the opening night of a play Oliver's directed (with the lead actor of the production played by Paul Rudd).
    — Milan Polk, Men's Health, 8 Aug. 2023
  • When her body was moved from the Honda Civic’s passenger seat, the lead core of the bullet that killed Darionne Burley fell to the floorboard.
    — Emerson Clarridge, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 Mar. 2024
  • Shiran was also a lead author on the Pew and Plastics Europe reports.
    — Lisa Song, ProPublica, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Instead, Addison used a rope-and-pulley system to lift and lower attached lead weights.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Apr. 2024
  • Zellweger earned her first Oscar nomination for her lead role in Bridget Jones's Diary, and the rom-com franchise has gone on to gross more than $760 million at the worldwide box office.
    — Jessica Wang, EW.com, 9 Apr. 2024
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lead

2 of 3 noun
  • The Thorns took a 2-0 lead when Izzy D’Aquila scored in the 46th minute.
    — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2023
  • There were five ties and five lead changes in the fourth quarter.
    — Jason Anderson, Sacramento Bee, 10 Apr. 2024
  • Gives us a 2-0 lead there in the second with one of the best pitchers around on the mound.
    — Tom Murphy, arkansasonline.com, 16 Mar. 2024
  • The Roos got out to a 13-0 lead and were able to control the outcome from there.
    — Kansas City Star, 11 Feb. 2024
  • Cathedral’s biggest lead was 22 points late in the first half.
    — Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Feb. 2024
  • Gauff jumped out to a 5-0 lead in a first set so one-sided that Ostapenko had won just three points in the first four games.
    — oregonlive, 5 Sep. 2023
  • At the same time, failure to adapt and lead could hurt the coffee giant in customers’ eyes.
    — Peter Prengaman, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Sep. 2023
  • The most common pellet sizes for lead turkey loads are No. 5s and No. 6s.
    — Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 10 Apr. 2024
  • The Warriors were up 8-0 in that game, blew the lead and trailed 9-8 before DeSaegher won it with a two-run homer.
    — John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 June 2023
  • Gal, lead singer of the Paz Band, has an angelic voice and cries out for women’s rights.
    — Kosha Dillz, Billboard, 8 Dec. 2023
  • Juneau-Douglas got out to an early lead and was up 7-0 by the end of the second inning.
    — Josh Reed, Anchorage Daily News, 2 June 2023
  • Both lead and cadmium cause long-term damage to the body.
    — Kaitlin Sullivan, Health, 16 Sep. 2023
  • That’s up from Trump’s 29-point lead over DeSantis in June.
    — Ben Kamisar, NBC News, 27 Sep. 2023
  • After a close game through halftime, the Fever went on an 8-0 to take a sizable lead in the third quarter.
    — Indystar Sports, The Indianapolis Star, 12 June 2023
  • Indiana led by 15 points with five minutes left in the third quarter against the Lynx, and this time, the Fever kept their lead.
    — Chloe Peterson, The Indianapolis Star, 11 Aug. 2023
  • The Aggies' lead grew to 18-13 early in the second quarter with a three-pointer by Sole Williams.
    — Ethan Westerman, arkansasonline.com, 23 Feb. 2024
  • The lead didn't last long as Williams answered with a 3-pointer of his own on the next possession, and the Golden Lions led the rest of the night.
    — Tanner Spearman, arkansasonline.com, 13 Nov. 2023
  • Deutch is playing Hoult’s wife, while Sutherland is the lead’s AA sponsor.
    — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Dec. 2023
  • Báez and Rogers scored on Carpenter's single for a 6-5 lead.
    — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 30 July 2023
  • Clark made bogey on holes No. 15 and No. 16, trimming a three-stroke lead over McIlroy to just one stroke.
    — Harold Maass, The Week, 19 June 2023
  • The Tigres jumped out to a 4-0 lead and kept Panama off the scoreboard until the eighth inning in the semifinal.
    — Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 9 Feb. 2024
  • For a decade, the lead sat at the bottom of a growing case file, with no sign that it might ever be discovered again.
    — Robert Kolker, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2023
  • In March, a blood test revealed that Caiden had a blood lead level of 13 micrograms per deciliter.
    — Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News, 18 Dec. 2023
  • The Bengals added another field goal for a 19-9 lead before the Rams launched one final threat.
    — Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2023
  • Oakland blew a 4-3 lead in the top of the seventh on Luis Rengifo’s 15th home run before storming back in the bottom half.
    — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2023
  • Dee Snider, lead singer of the heavy metal band Twisted Sister, will appear 1-4 p.m. March 2.
    — Jenna Prestininzi, Detroit Free Press, 22 Feb. 2024
  • But on the next possession out of a timeout, Trey Buchanan found Will Harvey in the right corner for a 3-pointer to stretch the lead back to five points.
    — The Indianapolis Star, 18 Jan. 2024
  • The final round started with Clark and Fowler tied for the lead at 10-under, and McIlroy lurking at 9-under.
    — Jim Reineking, USA TODAY, 19 June 2023
  • The male lead Radoslav Vladimirov was found two days before rehearsal began.
    — Annika Pham, Variety, 30 Jan. 2024
  • McConnel scored to send Forest Hills into the locker room at halftime with a two-goal lead.
    — Jenna Malinowski, Detroit Free Press, 10 June 2023
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lead

3 of 3 verb
  • But dirt paths lead along the base of the hills where the poppies massed.
    — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 5 Apr. 2023
  • Two bonus points go to the driver who leads the most laps.
    — Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 26 Aug. 2023
  • What does America, still the leading power, want in the world?
    — Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 June 2023
  • The red box indicates the vicinity of the boot tracks that lead into a small avalanche area.
    — Gina Martinez, CBS News, 10 May 2023
  • Google’s product lead for podcasting, and talk about their plans for the medium.
    — Ariel Shapiro, The Verge, 28 Feb. 2023
  • That the women that would lead this country would be pro-family....
    — The New Republic, 14 June 2023
  • Nevertheless, there was a gas line leading from the tank, which was in the yard, into the house, the report reveals.
    — David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Bowhunting safety tips Falls from treestands are the leading cause of deaths and injuries to bow hunters.
    — Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 13 Aug. 2023
  • The boathouse is accessible from this level and leads directly to the dock.
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Kenya is the leading producer of geothermal energy in Africa and is ranked among the top ten in the world.
    — Thuku Kariuki, Quartz, 16 May 2023
  • In the meantime Marchand is trying to help lead his college team in the postseason.
    — Logan Stanley, The Arizona Republic, 7 Jan. 2024
  • Now, Gilzene leads a small but mighty team of six (including herself).
    — Felice León, Essence, 26 June 2023
  • And so my team lead ended up running outside and asked the woman for her receipt.
    — Ali Francis, Bon Appétit, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Trump nominated Powell to lead the Fed in 2017, and Powell took over the next year.
    — Michelle Jamrisko, Fortune, 9 Dec. 2023
  • Connor Lewis does not lead the Oak Lawn boys volleyball team in kills, blocks or digs.
    — Jeff Vorva, Chicago Tribune, 23 Mar. 2023
  • But the address Barriss used was old, leading police to to a person who wasn't involved in the video game or the dispute.
    — David Hamilton, ajc, 9 May 2023
  • Finding the right scent combination can lead you to the perfect fall candle.
    — Madison Yauger, Peoplemag, 17 May 2023
  • Without its captain and all-time leading scorer, Australia got over the line.
    — James Robson, Chicago Tribune, 20 July 2023
  • Nick Maton leads Detroit with four home runs while slugging .317.
    — Creg Stephenson | [email protected], al, 10 May 2023
  • Vu walked down No. 18 leading by five and was already smiling before her long, snaking birdie putt dropped into the cup.
    — Associated Press, Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug. 2023
  • Two seasons later, Ossai is ready to lead the Longhorn defense.
    — Alex Briseno, Dallas News, 30 June 2020
  • The Ducks had four players drafted, three in the top 150, and leading tackler Bennett Williams signed as an undrafted free agent.
    — oregonlive, 17 May 2023
  • Reid Chapman scored three goals and Tommy Donnelly had two goals to lead Key’s offense.
    — Baltimore Sun Staff, Baltimore Sun, 16 May 2023
  • Instructor Tru Poet will lead campers through the ins and outs of performance and delivery.
    — The Pine Bluff Commercial, Arkansas Online, 13 June 2023
  • The duo will lead the strategic and creative direction of Vice Media, working with the board of directors.
    — Todd Spangler, Variety, 27 Feb. 2023
  • The right-hander gave up three homers, walked two, hit a batter and struck out six to increase his major-league leading total to 127 this season.
    — Larry Lage, ajc, 14 June 2023
  • She was elected to lead the union in September 2021 and re-elected earlier this month.
    — Daniel Arkin, NBC News, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Season 32 will feature Derek Hough, who joined the judging panel in season 29, leading as new head judge, per ET.
    — Ashley Paige, Peoplemag, 14 June 2023
  • But Amazon laid off all the zone leads, leaving the remaining associates and store managers struggling to keep up.
    — Caroline O'Donovan, Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2023
  • López Obrador is in the final months of his presidency, but his protégé Claudia Sheinbaum is leading polls to replace him in the June 2 election.
    — The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 24 Feb. 2024

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