Example sentences for: headlong

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

  • 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 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.

  • 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.


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