FOOL in a Sentence

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331 example sentences for FOOL, such as:

1. A wager is a fool's argument.
2. Don't make a fool of yourself.
3. A fool at forty is a fool indeed.
4. Any fool can teach himself to type.
5. Never challenge a fool to do wrong.

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 Meanings and Examples of FOOL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
5  He preferred a whey-faced little fool like Melanie to her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
12  "You little fool," and his voice was swift and rough.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
Example Sentence: (121 in 9 pages)
16  A fool can ask more questions than seven wise men can answer.
17  A fool may ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer in seven years.
18  A wager is a fool's argument.
19  You shouldn't fool around with dangerous chemicals.
20  A fool at forty is a fool indeed.
21  Every man is a fool sometimes, and none at all times.
22  If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.
23  A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
24  Any fool can teach himself to type.
25  A fool may throw a stone into a well which a hundred wise men cannot pull out.
26  Never challenge a fool to do wrong.
27  Don't make a fool of yourself.
28  He who is born a fool is never cured.
29  It is the nature of every man to err, but only the fool perseveres in the error.
30  The fool does think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.