headfirst
Example Sentences
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He had gone down the giraffe slide headfirst.
From Literature
It begins: “And after all the weather was ideal,” plunging the reader headfirst into the collision between preparations for a party and funeral preparations for a young man killed in an accident.
Arms burning, stomach scraping over broken glass, Natalie wriggled out headfirst into the storm.
From Literature
It was more than just romantic; it was the push I needed to dive headfirst back into studying.
From Salon
Twila charges in headfirst without concern for the consequences, whether it’s setting a bar on fire to escape the notice of KGB or brazenly approaching Russian sources.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
