go headlong

Example Sentences

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"I don't think I would go headlong into another heartbreak story … just did that, takes a lot out of you."

From Salon • Dec. 16, 2022

As she told McDonagh, "I don't think I would go headlong into another heartbreak story . . . just did that, takes a lot out of you."

From Salon • Dec. 16, 2022

The more you try to pull him back the more impetus you give him to go headlong down.

From Cecil Castlemaine's Gage, Lady Marabout's Troubles, and Other Stories by Ouida

If the ladies didn't get used to that the whole business would be simply impossible, because every one after the first four weeks would go headlong to the devil.

From Pandora's Box A Tragedy in Three Acts by Wedekind, Frank

They did not care to go headlong at a wall of men and carriages, though if the ground had been open they could have turned on a sixpence.

From The Day's Work - Volume 1 by Kipling, Rudyard