How to Use headlong in a Sentence
- I dove headlong to the floor.
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Sure enough, a big rock upended from beneath my toe and sent me lurching headlong to the water.
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Bryan Hendricks,
Arkansas Online,
15 Feb. 2026
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The future keeps moving forward, headlong.
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Cheri Lucas Rowlands,
Longreads,
21 Apr. 2026
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Iran was rushing headlong to acquire a nuclear weapon and was apparently on the cusp of it.
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Bobby Zirkin,
Baltimore Sun,
5 Apr. 2026
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Boy and girl marry and plunge headlong into a torrid, 200-year romance.
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Reshma Gopaldas,
Vogue,
17 Feb. 2026
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That idea runs headlong into the danger of seemingly conscious AI.
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Ron Schmelzer,
Forbes.com,
21 Aug. 2025
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Except that trend has now lost momentum, and the economics of a would-be gold rush are running headlong into reality.
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Dallas Morning News,
15 Mar. 2026
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On the other hand, jumping headlong into AI is risky—smart small businesses follow a structured path.
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Allbusiness,
Forbes.com,
14 Aug. 2025
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Forces of good and evil collide in a terrifying film where real-world challenges crash headlong into other worldly creatures and myths.
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Justin Kroll,
Deadline,
31 Oct. 2025
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Episode 4 finds both Ellen and Julia throwing themselves headlong into plans that require them to keep up major ruses.
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Kimberly Roots,
TVLine,
22 Aug. 2025
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That model is now running headlong into the AI era, and the transition has presented some challenges.
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Matt Emma,
USA Today,
25 Mar. 2026
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In the race to build the most powerful coding model, OpenAI has run headlong into the risks of releasing it.
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Sharon Goldman,
Fortune,
5 Feb. 2026
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The show was so sure-footed in its initial outing, but has ultimately tumbled headlong into a grease trap of its own making, aiming for pungent but landing on precious.
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Nina Metz,
Chicago Tribune,
26 June 2026
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In short, any claim that Pittman is intellectually disabled would run headlong into strong evidence of adaptive function.
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Amanda Lee Myers,
USA Today,
17 Sep. 2025
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The Broncos definitely got more buzz this offseason from all corners than in recent years and there were definitely some that jumped headlong into the deep end of the hype pool.
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Parker Gabriel,
Denver Post,
25 Sep. 2025
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For its part, the Post has run headlong into battle with the most powerful politician in the state and one of the most visible figures in Democratic politics.
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Max Tani,
semafor.com,
2 Feb. 2026
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The need for separate facilities ran headlong into the overwhelming demand for building materials to advance the war effort.
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Time,
5 Nov. 2025
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So, Slater dived headlong into his recovery and rehabilitation.
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Elliott Teaford,
Oc Register,
8 June 2026
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That sent Grand Canyon guard Makaih Williams racing to the other end, headlong toward the basket into a tangle of Aztecs defenders.
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Mark Zeigler,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
22 Jan. 2026
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Their love scene in the rain, while obviously less visually spectacular than in the film, plunges headlong into romantic cliches that manage to get the job done despite their obviousness.
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Theater Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Jan. 2026
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While the ad rates for the nightly network fare are dropping faster than Harvey Harding’s post-war Q ratings, the cost of buying time in live sports is galloping headlong in the opposite direction.
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Anthony Crupi,
Sportico.com,
11 May 2026
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Efforts to regulate the energy usage of data centers — the beating heart of AI — ran headlong into Big Tech, business groups and the governor.
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Calmatters,
Oc Register,
29 Dec. 2025
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Mehlhaff said that in addition to the annual battle over how to spend state money, legislators are also sure to dive headlong this session into property tax reform and legislation regarding data centers.
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Bart Pfankuch,
South Dakota News Watch,
12 Jan. 2026
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Reese’s relentless work on the offensive glass runs headlong into Golden State’s small-ball identity – a style built on pace, spacing and 3-and-D versatility.
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Nathan Canilao,
Mercury News,
25 June 2026
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Hello and welcome to Regulator, an email for Verge subscribers about technology, politics, and what happens when science crashes headlong into self-interest.
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Tina Nguyen,
The Verge,
17 June 2026
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In fact, the Hollow more or less fades into the background during The Abandons' final episode, when the tensions between Constance and Fiona veer headlong into the personal.
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Randall Colburn,
Entertainment Weekly,
9 Dec. 2025
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And yet, what on TV is more fun than watching Carrie Coon’s Bertha Russell go steaming headlong into a ballroom full of fury and vengeance for some infinitesimal slight?
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Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
1 Dec. 2025
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Furthermore, the world is running headlong into an AI arms race, with potentially dire consequences, including supercharging disinformation.
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Daniel Holz,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Apr. 2026
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Distracted, Thundercat’s fifth album, dives headlong into resignation—a supremely 2026 sentiment.
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Daniel Felsenthal,
Pitchfork,
7 Apr. 2026
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The trio of legal actions against Illinois, Connecticut and Arizona is the furthest Trump officials have gone to try to override state laws and set the rules for a fast-growing industry that has run headlong into thorny questions about insider trading and profiting off war and suffering.
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Bobby Allyn,
NPR,
2 Apr. 2026
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Its judgments are mostly sound, but for all its heft there’s something headlong about it.
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Thomas Mallon,
The New Yorker,
30 May 2022
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That headlong, try-everything ambition is all over the place here.
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Jon Dolan,
Rolling Stone,
11 Feb. 2022
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Like much of the war, this denouement was a long time coming but unfolded in a headlong rush.
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Nabih Bulos,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Aug. 2021
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Few sectors have been transformed by that headlong rush more than global memory.
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Bloomberg Wire,
Dallas Morning News,
16 Feb. 2026
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Few sectors have been transformed by that headlong rush more than global memory.
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Debby Wu,
Fortune,
15 Feb. 2026
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People schemed, finagled, wheedled, and conspired, caught up in the mad, headlong rush of the city.
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Adam Kirsch,
The New Yorker,
27 Nov. 2023
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How much of this headlong embrace of online learning sticks when everyone goes back to school is anyone’s guess.
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Jenny Anderson,
Quartz,
5 Mar. 2020
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And any time mood and conditions dictate, a push on the right pedal can serve up a headlong rush into the distant scenery.
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Kevin Smith,
Car and Driver,
24 June 2023
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What burning question prompted such a headlong pursuit?
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Literary Hub,
9 Apr. 2026
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What burning question prompted such a headlong pursuit?
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Kristen Roupenian,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2026
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Crosby’s headlong crash into the boards Monday night was enough to cause some people to shudder and look away.
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The Washington Post,
The Denver Post,
9 May 2017
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But progress on the South China Sea question has been so slow as to make the trade talks look like a headlong dash.
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The Economist,
4 Nov. 2019
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Only three weeks after that move, Wanda is in headlong strategic retreat.
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Alan Murray,
Fortune,
10 July 2017
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Then came his abrupt turn, and a headlong descent into some of the darkest places in Georgia history.
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New York Times,
18 Feb. 2021
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His headlong pursuit of celebrity will rankle many people, and even those close to him acknowledge that the idea of it consumed him.
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David Howard,
Popular Mechanics,
30 Aug. 2020
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Her life is almost nothing besides this desperate, headlong attempt to outlast her own pain.
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Sonia Saraiya,
HWD,
5 July 2018
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Thus begins his black-market weapons practice and a headlong collision with bored-and-antsy Parker.
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Sam MacHkovech,
Ars Technica,
7 July 2017
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How could a headlong girl have foreseen her imprisonment in Max Gate, the gloomy house Hardy built?
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Lyndall Gordon,
WSJ,
27 Oct. 2022
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The context of their headlong infatuation is a blood feud that rages unabated in Verona.
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Los Angeles Times,
14 Apr. 2021
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The other murder takes place at the top of a staircase and the camera follows the headlong fall of the blood covered murder victim all the way down the stairs.
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Thr Staff,
The Hollywood Reporter,
16 June 2017
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Yet not even Hart’s sheer, headlong Kevin Hart-ness can do anything for this loud, coarse, flaccid comedy.
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Mark Feeney,
BostonGlobe.com,
25 Aug. 2022
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Our role is not to answer but to question, and to let our questioning run headlong, reckless, into the inarticulate.
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Stephen Marche,
The Atlantic,
15 Sep. 2022
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On top of this, the signal sent by Biden’s headlong retreat had a devastating effect on Afghan morale from the top on down.
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The Editors,
National Review,
15 Aug. 2021
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After decades of headlong frontal assaults while wildly shooting from the hip, stormtroopers have at last stumbled upon basic tactics.
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Angry Staff Officer,
Wired,
9 Dec. 2020
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In the headlong rush for technological supremacy, strange new risks are being created.
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Billy Perrigo,
Time,
27 Aug. 2025
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Bringing them to market will require a financial commitment and a headlong march into the green tech economy.
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Ken Silverstein,
Forbes,
18 Jan. 2022
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Its data shows that GAAP earnings are still growing, though at a crawl compared with the headlong sprint over the last few years.
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Shawn Tully,
Fortune,
31 Aug. 2019
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Democratic lawmakers had been in a headlong race to finalize an agreement before the end of the legislative session this week.
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Vivian Wang,
New York Times,
19 June 2019
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Cutting-edge science is littered with monuments to hubris, impatience, and headlong speed by researchers intent on changing the world.
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Stephen S. Hall,
Wired,
11 Mar. 2021
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Too often, assessment results plunge educators headlong into a flood of data, but leave them with a drought of actionable next steps.
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Richard Carranza,
Forbes.com,
18 Feb. 2026
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