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Common collocations with headline in American Collocation

headline noun

US /ˈhedˌlaɪn/

dramatic

dramatic
lurid
sensational
sensationalist
shock

The next morning, newspaper headlines were even more sensational.

short and clever

catchy
snappy

Think of a snappy headline for your article.

easily noticed

attention-grabbing
eye-catching

His reports usually start with a brief attention-grabbing headline.

causing strong emotion

alarmist
emotive
hysterical

There was another rash of hysterical headlines when the police found a girl wandering the streets in the middle of the night.

main

banner
main

The main headline on the front of the paper is what mostly attracts the consumer.

misleading

misleading

Despite the misleading headline ‘acupuncture can ease the pain of childbirth’, the newspaper article then goes on to report the research accurately.

front-page
media
newspaper
tabloid

The newspaper ran a huge front-page headline: ‘Millions will die’.

have a headline

carry
have
run

All of the late papers in the U.S. carried headlines similar to those in the Louisville Courier.

look at headlines

scan
see

Flip the pages, scan the headlines and highlight the articles you want to read in greater depth.