Example Sentences

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“The report foolhardily paints missing aspirational goals as a misuse of funds.”

From Washington Post • Oct. 1, 2021

A few years ago he foolhardily set out to bring big-time soccer to the soccer-resistant U.S., founded the International Soccer League.

From Time Magazine Archive

In Biarritz, 400 houses were flooded in one day, and in the Somme department, a vacationer died of exposure when he foolhardily went swimming.

From Time Magazine Archive

Surely never men thrust themselves foolhardily into worse predicament!

From Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska by Stuck, Hudson

Suppose he had built a castle in the clouds and tenanted it with Olivia, and were now foolhardily attempting to scale the air?

From Romance Island by Gale, Zona