Example sentences for: foolish

How can you use “foolish” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • He has gone too far in his foolish mistakes, and beyond foolish mistakes, and I am no longer "cool" about him as president.

  • And while it may be foolish to deride secularism as hollow, it's not particularly risky--not in a nation of Indians.

  • It is not foolish to consider intent, hence the distinction between murder and accident and serious dieting.

  • Oxymoron derives from the Greek oxymoros meaning pointedly foolish, which itself derives from oxy- , a combining form meaning sharp (from the Greek oxus meaning sharp) and moron (from the Greek moros meaning dull).

  • "That 'droit de seigneur' White House tradition of serial infidelity, as established by John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, may be as gross as it is foolish.


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