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Example sentences for: folly

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Forcing miscreants to attend high school is pure folly, based on three untruths: 1) any kid can be taught; 2) dropping out will turn a kid toward crime; and 3) without a high-school education you can't get a decent job.
The author describes the use of specific terms and the problems associated with them, beginning with the word swamp, which is followed by creek, folly, tump , and gurnet .
On the hilltop further up the same winding road, over 450 m (1,500 ft) above sea level, is the Palácio da Pena, an outrageous Victorian folly built in 1840.
Monolongual Mexican vaqueros witnessing the folly of such misuse of their implement would shout at the Gringos in excellent Desert Latin (as Spanish has been called): “Dale, dale!”
But to deny that the oblique senses of man are still very much with us is mere optimistic folly.