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

I may declare, and even believe, that there is no solid wall before me, yet if I go headlong against it, I am bruised all the same.

From Miss Lou by Roe, Edward Payson

She wouldn't notice," said Mrs. Ray, adjusting her shawl, and turning the needlework in her hands; "she's the kind who don't even see the things they go headlong over.

From In a Mysterious Way by Warner, Anne

He had tripped over something that lay in the grass, and a splash announced that with his usual hard luck the fat boy had managed to go headlong into the spring.

From The Boy Scouts in the Blue Ridge Marooned Among the Moonshiners by Carter, Herbert