Example sentences for: headlong

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

  • The small populations here live a slower, more traditional life, and the headlong rush to get there yesterday, which you’ll experience in some of the cities and towns of Puerto Rico, doesn’t seem to exist here at all.

  • Of the modern masters, he came closest to capturing the dynamism and rhythm of our headlong century.

  • I liked her as a person and admired her gutsiness--her willingness to work without a net, to throw herself headlong into a part even if it meant falling a great distance onto her face.

  • But with the Spanish-American War, he says, the policy was junked, and since then we've been rushing headlong into ruin.

  • But before we plunge headlong into spring--starting more seeds than we could ever hope to plant, scarfing up little wonders at nurseries because we simply must have them--let us stop to consider the lesson of restraint to be learned from the garden in winter.


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