fall headlong
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Again & again wily Senator Black would trip Witness Hopson up, cause him to fall headlong into puddles of contradiction.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was taking a great interest in the affairs of Fred Badger, and would be very much shocked should the other fall headlong into the net that seemed to be spread for his young feet.
From Jack Winters' Baseball Team Or, The Rivals of the Diamond by Mark Overton
It was hard work, too, for, proceeding as they were in comparative darkness, every now and then a horse would place its hoof in the burrow of some animal, and nearly fall headlong.
From The Silver Canyon A Tale of the Western Plains by Henri Théophile Hildibrand
With this strap they walk along on the tow-path of the canal, pulling in this way—so that if the cord should break, I should think they would fall headlong on the ground.
From Rollo in Holland by Jacob Abbott
My mind is drawn different ways; I fall headlong out of my ideal world, if a holed stocking remind me of the real world.
From The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works by Thomas Carlyle
