headlong

Example Sentences

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It’s fun, headlong reading with a shot of melancholy.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 20, 2026

Saturday's Anfield horror show at the hands of Nottingham Forest was a headlong fall into the abyss.

From BBC • Nov. 22, 2025

Ireland hosts one of the world's fast-growing clusters of data centres, but is running headlong into the difficult consequences.

From Barron's • Nov. 19, 2025

A selloff that thrashed U.S. stocks and extended into international markets ran headlong Friday into one of the most powerful forces in America’s multiyear rally.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025

There they crashed headlong into the source of the bellowing: a tall woman in a fur cape, who now lay sprawled on the floor with three orange-splattered ghosts hovering above her.

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood