Example sentences for: headlong

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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


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