FOOL in a Sentence

Learn FOOL from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
331 example sentences for FOOL, such as:
1. He was fool enough to agree.
2. A fool always rushes to the fore.
3. A fool always rushed to the fore.
4. Answer a fool according to his folly.
5. A fool always comes short of his reckoning.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of FOOL
fool
 v.  fool or hoax
 v.  make a fool or dupe of
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  He'd be just fool enough to let the patterollers get him and that would give Ma something else to talk about for weeks.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
2  And, of course, her brother called him out, and Mr. Butler said he'd rather be shot than marry a stupid fool.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
3  But somehow, unbidden, she had a feeling of respect for Rhett Butler for refusing to marry a girl who was a fool.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
4  If this fool who was grappling for her hand would only keep quiet for a moment, perhaps she could hear what they were saying.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
5  He preferred a whey-faced little fool like Melanie to her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
6  Honey was a fool, a silly, a simpleton about men, but she had a feminine instinct about other women that Scarlett had underestimated.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
7  She wasn't going to make a fool out of herself about the Cause, but neither was she going to make a fool out of herself by admitting her true feelings.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
8  Melanie was a fool, but there was nothing anybody could do about it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
9  "No, sir, they'd better not fool with old Forrest," Atlanta said gleefully as the story was told over and over.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
10  She only felt a furious surge of indignation that he should think her such a fool.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
11  He must think her a fool if he offered her a proposition like that, instead of the proposal of matrimony she had been expecting.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
12  "You little fool," and his voice was swift and rough.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
13  "You're a fool nigger, and the worst day's work Pa ever did was to buy you," said Scarlett slowly, too tired for anger.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
14  And then that night we saw the glare of fire over toward Tara and it lasted for hours and it scared our fool darkies so bad they all ran off.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
15  And fool that she was, she had thought through weary months that if she could just hold out until spring, everything would be all right.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
Example Sentence: (121 in 9 pages)
1  A fool always comes short of his reckoning.
2  Where theren is a flatterer there is also a fool.
3  The more riches a fool hath, the greater fool he is.
4  Answer a fool according to his folly.
5  The greatest fool is he who worries about what he cannot help.
6  A man may talk like a wise man and yet act like a fool.
7  He was fool enough to agree.
8  The wise man knows he knows nothing, but the fool thinks he knows it all.
9  A wise man thinks all that he says, a fool says all that he thinks.
10  A fool always finds a bigger fool to admire him.
11  A fool always rushed to the fore.
12  A fool always rushes to the fore.
13  A fool always finds a greater fool than himself.
14  One who loves not wine, woman and song, remains a fool his whole life long.
15  A fool knows more in his own house than a wise man in another.