RECKLESS in a Sentence

Learn RECKLESS from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

75 example sentences for RECKLESS, such as:

1. She did not feel reckless and defiant now.
2. He showed a reckless disregard for his own safety.
3. These men had the same hard reckless look Rhett wore.
4. She grew daring and reckless, overestimating her strength.
5. It tried to remain aloft, but its flying grew wild and reckless.

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 Meanings and Examples of RECKLESS
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
reckless
 a.  headstrong; rash; indifferent to or disregardful of consequences
Classic Sentence: (64 in 5 pages)
1  She did not feel reckless and defiant now.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
2  Rumor had it that Captain Butler was one of the best pilots in the South and that he was reckless and utterly without nerves.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
3  Strength was coming back and a reckless excitement which made her want to laugh aloud.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
4  She had seen Southern men, soft voiced and dangerous in the days before the war, reckless and hard in the last despairing days of the fighting.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
5  The brandy was spinning in her head now and she felt giddy and a little reckless.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
6  These men had the same hard reckless look Rhett wore.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
7  She could be as unscrupulous in fighting for herself as she was reckless in courting danger, and whatever came to her hand at such moments was likely to be used as a defensive missile.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 3
8  Miss Mullins is young and reckless, but everybody in town, except Ma Bogart, knows what Cy is.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
9  Nor could she upon inquiry learn that many of this reckless race died in the poorhouse.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
10  I didn't want her ring, and I felt there was something reckless and extravagant about her wishing to give it away to a boy she had never seen before.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: III
11  I believed her young, ardent, reckless, disillusioned, under sentence, feverish, avid of pleasure.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3. Lena Lingard: III
12  The heartless world which Marguerite re-entered with Varville had never been so glittering and reckless as on the night when it gathered in Olympe's salon for the fourth act.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3. Lena Lingard: III
13  She grew daring and reckless, overestimating her strength.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In X
14  From blind fear he went to the other extreme; he became reckless and indifferent, like all the rest of the men, who took but little thought of themselves in the ardor of their work.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 21
15  Raising his cry of battle, which recalled some six or seven warriors, and reckless of the disparity of their numbers, he rushed upon his enemy.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32
Example Sentence:
1  This time, the killer appeared to have been much more reckless about being seen.
2  In the name of solidarity, Europeans are being asked to subsidize irresponsible behavior, in reckless violation of the EU's treaties.
3  It tried to remain aloft, but its flying grew wild and reckless.
4  "It would be unethical and reckless to provide end-stage refractory ovarian cancer patients outside a clinical trial with BMN 673 at this early stage of development," says company spokesperson Debra Charlesworth.
5  The medical examiner had ruled Garner's death a homicide. State charges could have ranged from murder to reckless endangerment.
6  He showed a reckless disregard for his own safety.
7  Most southern towns have suffered from the reckless depredation of the armed gang.
8  When he answered, he told her recklessly that he had not been to see her because his best clothes were in pawn.
9  Cowardly people will only come to a standstill, recklessly person can lead to Shaoshen, only the real brave man to carry the world before one.
10  Medical workers on trial face criminal charges that range from professional recklessness to illegal sale of donor blood.
11  Medical workers on trial face criminal charges that range from professional recklessness to corruption, to illegal sale of donor blood.