How to Use heedless in a Sentence

heedless

adjective
  • They remain heedless of their own safety.
  • But what if just the opposite of this heedless obituary for the avant-garde is true?
    — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2024
  • Of course, some heedless drivers ignore the etiquette and barrel through first.
    — Peter Saenger, WSJ, 30 Oct. 2018
  • Humanity is heedless of all the clutter in those bands.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 16 Apr. 2026
  • These days, though, most poker players are not heedless, risk-seeking gamblers.
    — Nicole Narea, Vox, 15 July 2024
  • Only a heedless few would reject that judgment out of hand, no matter how wounding.
    — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2017
  • To this day, heedless shootings at parades are not unheard of in the Big Easy.
    — Maurice Carlos Ruffin, TIME, 3 Jan. 2025
  • The gunman raised the weapon, heedless of a woman standing nearby on the sidewalk.
    — Maria Cramer, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2024
  • My headlong descent had much more to do with a willful and heedless pursuit of hedonism.
    — Rachel Desantis, People.com, 30 Jan. 2025
  • To him, though, the bistro is perfect, rich in singular details that people of more heedless taste might have scrubbed away.
    — Nathan Heller, Vogue, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Back then, a heedless industry-wide race to win market share and raise returns was about to end in disaster.
    — The Economist, 25 Jan. 2018
  • Introspection, after all, is most longed for in our heedless culture.
    — Armond White, National Review, 29 Dec. 2023
  • Then again, everyone around her seems prone to equally heedless decisions.
    — Erin Berger, Outside Online, 3 Mar. 2021
  • With the others hitting nearby, this looked heedless, like a movie colonel not flinching amid a mortar barrage.
    — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 14 June 2019
  • The pathogen, finally, is an agent without agency—a bug trying to make more bugs, heedless of motives or morals.
    — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2024
  • Others are heedless of consequences for anyone but their supporters and donors.
    — David Frum, The Atlantic, 3 July 2017
  • His specialty is now the heedless hero whose certainty about his righteousness drives him to extremes.
    — Inkoo Kang, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
  • This is one of those cases in which the GOP is heedless to public sentiment.
    — Steve Chapman, chicagotribune.com, 18 Oct. 2019
  • Yes, in the heedless world of teenage rebellion, that total miscreant has worked up the nerve to join the mining protest movement.
    — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 28 Jan. 2024
  • Columbus — a staid heartland city named for that avatar of heedless white male adventuring — was never the aim for either of them.
    — Laura Collins-Hughes, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2023
  • The sunburned man, however, seemed terrified, while the man with the airy smile went on smiling, heedless of danger.
    — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2018
  • By now, most Americans have absorbed Vogt’s idea that heedless consumption comes at a steep price.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 27 Apr. 2018
  • Victor approached the table, and began eating the steaks, heedless of the humans shouting and banging pots.
    — Wes Siler, Outside Online, 29 Aug. 2024
  • In that way, yeah, Beatriz can be a little annoying, heedless of the temperature of the room.
    — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 24 Jan. 2017
  • The heedless rush to splash the story onto the screen leads to an appalling waste of the formidable talents marshalled to depict it.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 9 Nov. 2023
  • And the riders, in my experience, tend to be heedless — arrogant, reckless.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 13 Sep. 2023
  • At the counter, customers casually pay with plastic cards, heedless of the random numbers working on their behalf.
    — Tim Folger, Discover Magazine, 17 Aug. 2018
  • The indications are inescapable that the bill for decades of heedless human activity is coming due.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2021
  • The actor’s work with the Coen brothers had honed his gifts for heedless confidence and rapid banter, both of which Foxy has in spades.
    — Joe Reid, Vulture, 26 June 2023
  • Power doesn’t have to corrupt, the film suggests; many come to it precorrupted, as well as ignorant, fatuous and heedless.
    — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 8 Mar. 2018

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