fall headlong
Example Sentences
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Again & again wily Senator Black would trip Witness Hopson up, cause him to fall headlong into puddles of contradiction.
From Time Magazine Archive
"We must fall back before them if they push on, and then methinks they might drive us over the brink, so that we fall headlong to the bottom, and break in pieces."
From With Drake on the Spanish Main by Strang, Herbert
The moment would come when she must fall headlong.
From Only a Girl: or, A Physician for the Soul. by Hillern, Wilhelmine von
Otherwise it was dark, pitch dark, in the narrow, crooked streets, and down by the wharves, where one might fall headlong into the sea if tipsy, or a stranger.
From Skipper Worse by Kielland, Alexander Lange
Just as it seemed as if they were doomed to fall headlong into the blaze, they were swerved violently into an opening that angled off from the main shaft.
From Pirates of the Gorm by Schachner, Nathan
