FOLLY in a Sentence
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119 example sentences for FOLLY, such as:
1. Answer a fool according to his folly.
2. Learn wisdom by the follies of others.
3. Beauty and folly are often companions.
4. Happy is he who knows his follies in his youth.
5. It was not only a crime, it had been a tragic folly.
2. Learn wisdom by the follies of others.
3. Beauty and folly are often companions.
4. Happy is he who knows his follies in his youth.
5. It was not only a crime, it had been a tragic folly.
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Meanings and Examples of FOLLY
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folly
n. the quality of being rash and foolish
n. a stupid mistake
Classic Sentence: (104 in 7 pages)
1 After leaving the house he discovered his loss and hurried back, but found the police already in possession, owing to his own folly in leaving the candle burning.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER V. OUR ADVERTISEMENT BRINGS A VISITOR
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER V. OUR ADVERTISEMENT BRINGS A VISITOR
2 It was not only a crime, it had been a tragic folly.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context Highlight In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
Context Highlight In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
3 I pray thee, uncle," answered the Jester, "let my folly, for once, protect my roguery.
4 Friend Wamba," said he, "of all those who are fools enough to serve Cedric, thou alone hast dexterity enough to make thy folly acceptable to him.
5 Marriage were an enduring crime on the part of a Templar; but what lesser folly I may practise, I shall speedily be absolved from at the next Preceptory of our Order.
6 Thou hast spoken well, Brother Albert," said Beaumanoir; "thy motives were good, since thou didst judge it right to arrest thine erring brother in his career of precipitate folly.
7 And tonight's business seems quite gratuitous folly.
8 As for the scent-bottle, that was her own folly.
9 They had need be all in love, to find any amusement in such folly; and so they are, I fancy.
10 But if I can be the means of restraining the publicity of the business, of limiting the exhibition, of concentrating our folly, I shall be well repaid.
11 Fanny could not look at him, but there was no consciousness of past folly in his voice.
12 My dear Fanny," replied Edmund, scarcely hearing her to the end, "let us not, any of us, be judged by what we appeared at that period of general folly.
13 I am sure it will be all hushed up, and nothing proved but Rushworth's folly.
14 Their substance was great anger at the folly of each.
15 She saw it only as folly, and that folly stamped only by exposure.
Example Sentence:
1 Answer a fool according to his folly.
2 Politeness is not always the sign of wisdom, but the want of it always leaves room for the suspicion of folly.
3 If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.
4 To flee vice is the begnning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom.
5 It is the nature of folly to see the faults of others and forget his own.
6 Somerville bitterly regretted his folly at becoming involved.
7 Beauty and folly are often companions.
8 It would be sheer folly to reduce spending on health education.
9 He sprang to his feet and shouted -- "I done it!" The school stared in perplexity at this incredible folly.
10 Gulliver's Travels, which is regarded by many as a tale for children, is actually a bitter satire attacking man's folly.
11 The humor of cartoonist Gary Trudeau often is satirical; through the comments of the Doonesbury characters, Trudeau ridicules political corruption and folly.
12 The follies of youth are food for repentance in old age.
13 Learn wisdom by the follies of others.
14 Happy is he who knows his follies in his youth.
15 Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.