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Example sentences for: foolishness

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

But it's a particularly dangerous foolishness for black Americans, because it leads us to take seriously thugs like the Black Panthers, and to glorify the Kody Scotts and Nathan McCalls we ought to condemn instead.
It's time to recognize the naiveté of such legislation, a foolishness that has turned our schools into killing grounds.
The script gives Grant a series of deadpan one-upmanships; what saves him from seeming like an utter snob is his habit of drawing attention to his own foolishness with a lovably self-deprecating stammer.
And the best way to avoid such foolishness is to play around with a thought experiment or two.
To the contrary, Will argued, "Because [Jackson] is black, his white rivals sit silently beside him, leaving his foolishness unremarked.