How to Use levelheaded in a Sentence

levelheaded

adjective
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  • She is levelheaded about her chances for success as an actress.
  • Speaking of levelheaded, some hats came in the other day that would look adorable on you!
    — Keaton Patti, The New Yorker, 2 Apr. 2017
  • Our Trent Shadid took a levelheaded and numbers-based look at it all.
    — Eric Bolin, ajc, 10 Oct. 2017
  • And if Koch’s levelheaded coaching style has proven anything to this point, time still seems aplenty for a late run.
    — Charlie Hatch, Cincinnati.com, 5 Aug. 2017
  • The Bordeaux man or woman tends to be grounded and levelheaded.
    — Jay McInerney, Town & Country, 4 Nov. 2019
  • Over the course of a 14-year N.H.L. career, even the most steady, levelheaded goaltender suffers the occasional slip-up.
    — Matt Rybaltowski, New York Times, 11 May 2018
  • Zoë, on the other hand, is calm and levelheaded in a crisis, and yet is still excellent at kicking ass and taking names.
    — Matt Blum, WIRED, 2 Nov. 2012
  • When things are really fraught, take time to prepare for such a levelheaded exchange of truths.
    — Jeanne Sahadi, CNN, 29 Oct. 2019
  • Less than a third of the country describes him as levelheaded, a figure that has been pretty steady over the course of his presidency.
    — Philip Bump, Washington Post, 10 Jan. 2018
  • Remain levelheaded and friendly for the very best results.
    — Jeraldine Saunders, The Mercury News, 15 May 2017
  • There’s pretty much always time to call one or three or five people smarter than you or just calmer than you who will ask you levelheaded questions and try to pull you back from the edge of making a big mistake.
    — Sarah Bahr, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2024
  • Compared to the flashiness and giddiness of some past Latin Grammy spectacles, this year’s edition was closer to the levelheaded side.
    — Jon Pareles, New York Times, 18 Nov. 2022
  • Asked about the team’s ugly start, Davies presented a levelheaded viewpoint.
    — Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 15 Apr. 2022
  • Only in comparison with their younger selves and their parents in the go-go ’90s do present-day Tribe fans look older and wiser, levelheaded and circumspect.
    — Nicholas Frankovich, National Review, 5 Oct. 2017
  • Mercury then checks in with Saturn, guiding us to a more levelheaded perspective.
    — Chicago Tribune, 29 Nov. 2022
  • Toronto has been levelheaded and even-keeled this season, following the example set by Leonard.
    — Dan Woike, latimes.com, 11 June 2019
  • Zverev, often curt in defeat, remained levelheaded about the early exit from Paris.
    — Ben Rothenberg, New York Times, 30 May 2017
  • In the meantime, Enrich has given us a thorough, clearly written and generally levelheaded account of a bank that lost its way.
    — New York Times, 5 Mar. 2020
  • Karen Fann, the president of the Senate, had a reputation as a reasonable and levelheaded leader.
    — Author: Dan Zak, Anchorage Daily News, 23 May 2021
  • Karen Fann, the president of the Senate, had a reputation as a reasonable and levelheaded leader.
    — Author: Dan Zak, Anchorage Daily News, 23 May 2021
  • Laid-back yet eager to please, Tully makes a wondrously levelheaded and insightful foil to Theron’s middle-aged mother.
    — Michael O’Sullivan, kansascity, 3 May 2018
  • The key to accomplish any essential task is a little preparation, levelheaded thinking and a lot of hand washing before and after.
    — New York Times, 1 Apr. 2020
  • In conversation, Hyltin, who has never suffered a serious injury that forced her to sit out a season (or even a company tour), comes across as levelheaded and calm.
    — Marina Harss, New York Times, 2 Dec. 2022
  • Don Cheadle stars as an impulsive trader who captains a misfit firm with his more levelheaded lieutenant, played by Regina Hall.
    — John Jurgensen, WSJ, 16 Jan. 2019
  • Perhaps the more levelheaded member of the Tika Three, Carson has played an excellent game from the middle position, operating behind the scenes and telling the right kind of lies to advance himself.
    — Martin Holmes, Vulture, 12 May 2023
  • Why are otherwise levelheaded people willing to make this leap?
    — Heather Schwedel, Slate Magazine, 18 Oct. 2017
  • It’s taken a decade-plus of being together as a four-piece unit — the band includes accordionist Jose Carlos and bassist Alex Bendaña — to have such a levelheaded perspective on their career.
    — Dan Hyman, chicagotribune.com, 20 Sep. 2019
  • Those who’ve been cut loose can’t look at it as a reflection of their abilities, but more a result of their employer’s inabilities to be more fiscally levelheaded.
    — Tom Hoffarth, Orange County Register, 29 Apr. 2017
  • Your levelheaded perspective and energetic attitude will give you the advantage at work and at play.
    — Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 22 Mar. 2021
  • The two men were widely known as (take your choice) levelheaded or tight-fisted businessmen, whose other collaborators often wound up unhappy with the divvying of profits.
    — Brad Leithauser, WSJ, 29 Mar. 2018

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