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.

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 Meanings and Examples of HEADLONG
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
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.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VIII
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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
3  When Prissy still lingered, shuffling her feet and mouthing, Scarlett gave her another push which nearly sent her headlong down the front steps.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
5  New Orleans was such a strange, glamorous place and Scarlett enjoyed it with the headlong pleasure of a pardoned life prisoner.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
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.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story.
7  The foremost Indian bounded like a stricken deer, and fell headlong among the clefts of the island.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 7
8  Duncan thrust forth a foot, and the shock precipitated the eager savage headlong, many feet in advance of his intended victim.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 23
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.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 29
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.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32
11  Uncas abandoned his rifle, and leaped forward with headlong precipitation.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32
12  Once he knocked his shoulder so heavily against a tree that he went headlong.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
13  He seemed to be awaiting the moment when he should pitch headlong.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
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.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
15  Twice Petrushka, too, had fallen headlong, and this necessitated being tied to his perch with a piece of rope.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER III
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.