Example sentences for: reckless

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

  • If those subway ads are more effective against the cautious Martins than against the reckless Maxwells, then they are a threat to the hapless Joans.

  • The Journal reports that Nick Leeson, whose reckless derivatives trades sunk Barings P.L.C.

  • Suppose a reckless Congress decides to appropriate $10,000 of your money to finance a worthless aircraft carrier or a worthless social program.

  • The paper also mentions Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver being cut off in traffic by videographers, but that just gets at the redundancy of the law: reckless driving is already against the law, as is trespassing on somebody's doorstep.

  • John Travolta's empty nightclub impersonation of Bill Clinton in Primary Colors (1998) had one positive result: It gave him a jump-start on Jan Schlichtmann, the reckless personal injury lawyer at the center of A Civil Action . Travolta's Schlichtmann is much more redolent of Clinton: slick and selfish and corrupt in lots of ways but basically on the side of the angels, too proud and arrogant to change tactics when all is certainly lost.


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