How to Use foolhardy in a Sentence

foolhardy

adjective
  • Avoid taking foolhardy chances with your money as well as your heart.
    — Jeraldine Saunders, The Mercury News, 2 Jan. 2017
  • Why do something that’s foolhardy and ends with him saying the same thing?
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 30 June 2022
  • Would buying at the deadline be a dumb, brazen, foolhardy move?
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 25 July 2024
  • Denying the sewer rate pass-through from the county is foolhardy.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 20 Dec. 2024
  • For brands that want people to trust them, shrugging off those social changes is foolhardy.
    — Bynick Rockel, Fortune, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Yes, this was the right way to Varvarivka, but to try to get there tonight was foolhardy.
    — Tim Judah, The New York Review of Books, 29 Dec. 2022
  • How many more must die or be injured in desperate but foolhardy attempts to fit in?
    — Mitch Albom, Detroit Free Press, 12 June 2022
  • Trump and his inner circle also got badly caught out on a foolhardy bluff.
    — Alex Thomas, The New Republic, 26 Aug. 2022
  • Smith was asked about certain turning points in the game, which was a foolhardy exercise.
    — oregonlive, 6 Nov. 2021
  • Plus, the idea of any sort of tank this season is foolhardy simply because of the nature of the draft.
    — Matthew Defranks, Dallas News, 12 Mar. 2021
  • Staying in Paris went against all my instincts, but going seemed foolhardy.
    — Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 4 May 2020
  • To the west, in Long Beach, a few brave or foolhardy surfers rode towering waves.
    — New York Times, 22 Aug. 2021
  • Insisting that people come back to the office may seem foolhardy.
    — Scott Miraglia, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2022
  • Day one was an 11-mile ascent to a cabin set up for foolish, foolhardy souls like me.
    — Leyton Cassidy, Longreads, 7 May 2024
  • Liebenberg says his foolhardy effort to follow that chase would have killed him, too, if a tracker named !
    — Bydimitri Selibas, science.org, 13 June 2024
  • So Sumrall’s original words may have felt foolhardy, even fake.
    — Noah White, Miami Herald, 5 Feb. 2026
  • All of which speaks to the basic truth that freedom is never foolhardy, but the taking of it always is.
    — John Tamny, Forbes, 19 Sep. 2021
  • Nevertheless, there are a few foolhardy stars that orbit close to the rabbit black hole.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 2 June 2017
  • From this perspective, Putin seems foolhardy in the extreme.
    — Dp Opinion, Denver Post, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Riding one of these in the street with cars also seems incredibly foolhardy.
    — Washington Post, 4 Apr. 2018
  • Clay pursued Liston hard for a title shot, sometimes in foolhardy ways.
    — Mikal Gilmore, Rolling Stone, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Moynihan stars in Fixed as Lucky, an anxious beagle that's not quite as foolhardy as his pals.
    — Randall Colburn, EW.com, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Such foolhardy male striving, the movie suggests, is all too often destructive.
    — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 18 May 2026
  • Even Miss Manners is not so foolhardy as to propose a dress code for college students.
    — Judith Martin, Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2019
  • Their sweet scent could lure you in, their beauty might trick you into doing something foolhardy, their silent presence was enough to drive a man wild.
    — Katy Kelleher, Longreads, 9 Oct. 2019
  • The confidence of elite NBA players stops just shy of foolhardy.
    — Nathaniel Friedman, GQ, 6 July 2017
  • Walmsley began the race at a torrential pace that many of the veterans viewed as foolhardy.
    — New York Times, 11 Feb. 2020
  • Until very recently the joke was always about the foolhardy man who didn't bother to read the instructions.
    — Popular Mechanics, 5 Sep. 2017
  • Philosophies that were born of another drug era have to be reassessed; the idea that there is no role for law enforcement in all this is foolhardy.
    — Los Angeles Times, 18 Nov. 2021
  • But trying to predict an NFL schedule's strength is foolhardy.
    — Jeff Duncan, NOLA.com, 8 Feb. 2018

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