HEADLONG in a Sentence
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53 example sentences for HEADLONG, such as:
1. Jim dived headlong into the task.
2. He ran headlong for the open door.
3. He seemed to be awaiting the moment when he should pitch headlong.
4. Uncas abandoned his rifle, and leaped forward with headlong precipitation.
5. Once he knocked his shoulder so heavily against a tree that he went headlong.
2. He ran headlong for the open door.
3. He seemed to be awaiting the moment when he should pitch headlong.
4. Uncas abandoned his rifle, and leaped forward with headlong precipitation.
5. Once he knocked his shoulder so heavily against a tree that he went headlong.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of HEADLONG
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headlong
a. uncontrollably forceful or fast; done with head leading; headfirst
Classic Sentence: (50 in 4 pages)
1 That was a plain statement of the cloudy purpose which had driven him in headlong to Starkfield.
2 And girls who knew very well that a lady always refused a gentleman the first three times he proposed rushed headlong to accept the first time.
3 When Prissy still lingered, shuffling her feet and mouthing, Scarlett gave her another push which nearly sent her headlong down the front steps.
4 There was the same breakneck, headlong determination in Scarlett's face that Melanie had often seen in Gerald O'Hara's face when his mind was made up.
5 New Orleans was such a strange, glamorous place and Scarlett enjoyed it with the headlong pleasure of a pardoned life prisoner.
6 But the whale rushed round in a sudden maelstrom; seized the swimmer between his jaws; and rearing high up with him, plunged headlong again, and went down.
7 The foremost Indian bounded like a stricken deer, and fell headlong among the clefts of the island.
8 Duncan thrust forth a foot, and the shock precipitated the eager savage headlong, many feet in advance of his intended victim.
9 It were impossible to say what violent assertion the stubborn Hawkeye would have next made, in his headlong wish to vindicate his identity, had not the aged Delaware once more interposed.
10 In vain Hawkeye called to him to respect the covers; the young Mohican braved the dangerous fire of his enemies, and soon compelled them to a flight as swift as his own headlong speed.
11 Uncas abandoned his rifle, and leaped forward with headlong precipitation.
12 Once he knocked his shoulder so heavily against a tree that he went headlong.
13 He seemed to be awaiting the moment when he should pitch headlong.
14 And the men of the regiment, with their starting eyes and sweating faces, running madly, or falling, as if thrown headlong, to queer, heaped-up corpses--all were comprehended.
15 Twice Petrushka, too, had fallen headlong, and this necessitated being tied to his perch with a piece of rope.
Example Sentence:
1 He ran headlong for the open door.
2 Jim dived headlong into the task.
3 The slave seized the unexpected chance to make a headlong dash across the border to freedom.