Example sentences for: foolishly

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

  • I think social conservatives were unhappy with all of those Powell characters who drank too much, slept around, behaved foolishly, and yet remained funny, agreeable company.

  • The Anglophobia returns when he buys into hoary theories that America foolishly accepted the "Open Door Policy" in China because the British had conned Secretary of State John Hay.

  • In any event, foolishly excessive trade surpluses are a greater danger than foolishly excessive trade deficits . That's because excessive trade deficits are self-limiting: If you run a trade deficit every year, bankruptcy will eventually force you to stop.

  • (In yesterday's Death Without Missed Dinner Extra, I foolishly wrote "Use the time to contemplate how your fellow Baptists have been on the wrong side of every social policy from the civil-rights movement to gay rights with a stop-off to support the Vietnam War."

  • Maybe that's because your neighbors are behaving foolishly; maybe it's just because they have the good sense to realize that you can sometimes spend more than you earn--provided you're willing to draw down your savings.


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