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.

  • To impute such sacrifices to a desire for speed is not only a misinterpretation of the evidence but a curious thing to say, for those who are in a hurry are scarcely likely to stop everything, pick up this (or any other book) to check something, and then resume their headlong plunge into the solecistic abyss.

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

  • But Phaëthon's fall, like the cascading forms in Michelangelo's Sistine Last Judgment , has its own headlong ecstasy.

  • 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.


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