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• Entry into veins was head-first and was preceded by much pushing and probing of the vein wall.

• He is often portrayed as an overeager amateur who dives head-first into a situation.

• Prey may be crushed to death if large or eaten alive if small, swallowed head-first, and helped down by muscular contractions and neck flexing.

• The attempt, having resulted in him being thrown/tagged out while sliding head-first into third base, and scraping his chin in the process.

• Thayer an artist, not a scientist had dived head-first into the debate.

• They are able to descend head-first and hang upside-down beneath twigs and branches.

• Because normal slides hurt his ankles, he pioneered the use of the head-first slide.

• It may be seated in the pinwheel head-first or base-first.

• Prey is caught in the bill and either swallowed head-first, or carried back to the chicks.

• During the first inning of his third game, he slid head-first into second base and broke his neck.

• After running head-first into a fire hydrant, the man yawns, returns to his bed (which, from where he is standing, is on the wall), and goes to sleep.

• When the wheel strikes rocks and ruts, or under hard braking, the rider can be pitched forward off the bicycle head-first, called taking a header or simply a header.

• He lost his balance after leaving the take-off ramp, crashed head-first into the hill at 104.7 km/h and rolled at high speed down the rest of the hill unconscious.

• He used a piledriver as one of his ring moves, in which he would hold his opponents upside-down and then drop them head-first to the ring floor.

• They swallow their catch whole, head-first.