Example sentences for: headlong

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • He loved to communicate and was happy to charge headlong at the language and have a go regardless of the risk of mistakes--an attitude which many people today might do well to learn from.

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

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


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