Example sentences for: foolishly

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

  • They warn that in the name of exercising international leadership, we are foolishly risking our country's blood and treasure in faraway lands of which we know little.

  • The justification for the cuts rests upon a misapprehension of the lessons of the 1980s, a foolishly optimistic view of the certainty of economic forecasts, a confusion of public and private goods, and an almost willful averting of the eyes from the realities of the U.S. economy.

  • Although I am not a wagering sort, I foolishly made a bet with a friend before the president's first apology.

  • (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."

  • Meanwhile, Jones' lawyers foolishly cooperated by grumbling that Starr was "shadowing" them and hijacking their investigation of Lewinsky.


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