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headlong

[ hed-lawng, -long ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adverb

undertaken quickly and suddenly; made precipitately; hasty:
a headlong flight.
rash; impetuous:
a headlong denunciation.
done or going with the head foremost:
a headlong dive into the pool.

headlong

/ ˈhɛdˌlɒŋ /

First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English hedlong, earlier hedling; head, -ling ²

In our headlong quest for a legally perfect society, we don’t take the time to take stock of what‘s been created so far.

In the first chapter, rebellious Holly Sykes runs away from home and headlong into the melancholy perils of first love.

Ultra-rich people who launch a headlong retreat from political affairs will not be immune.

But this headlong rush towards legalization makes him a little uneasy, too.

But the headlong rush to drill has caused a number of social and environmental consequences that are just too startling to ignore.

Nearly all the mutineers swung round and galloped headlong for the landward boundary of the paddy field.

And they that call this people blessed, shall cause them to err: and they that are called blessed, shall be thrown down, headlong.

He did not stop until he dashed headlong into a thicket, far away to the right of their line of march.

A man throws up his arms and tumbles headlong, but those that live dash on.

Our prisoner's was perhaps the most startling name which could have been pronounced among those high-blooded and headlong men.

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