headlong
IPA: hˈɛdɫɔŋ
verb
- (transitive) To precipitate.
adjective
- Precipitous.
- Plunging downwards head foremost.
- Rushing forward without restraint.
- (figuratively) Reckless; impetuous.
adverb
- With the head first or down.
- With an unrestrained forward motion.
- Rashly; precipitately; without deliberation; in haste, hastily.
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Examples of "headlong" in Sentences
- It is neither heedless of the past or future, nor is it in headlong pursuit of immediate gratification.
- Wild-dog sprang back and whirled away in headlong flight for a score of yards before he learned that he was not pursued.
- The revolution, which cast him headlong from the throne, saved and exalted Isaac Angelus, 18 who descended by the females from the same Imperial dynasty.
- Him I had never injured either by word or deed: yet he has sent against me, I know not from whence, a certain Belisarius, who has cast me headlong from the throne into his abyss of misery.
- Your story could begin headlong rushing into events with everything seeming a blur, the detachment and disjointed conversations from those around the characters; the jaggered edges, the rawness.
- The corrupt or malicious witness was thrown headlong from the Tarpeian rock, to expiate his falsehood, which was rendered still more fatal by the severity of the penal laws, and the deficiency of written evidence.
- Desperate at the confusion which now ensued, as his archers fell headlong from the rocks, and his cavalry lay drowning before him, Lord Percy called up his infantry: – they appeared, but though ten thousand strong, the determined
- But in the second year, their patron was cast headlong from the throne, the bishops of the East were released from their occasional conformity, the Roman faith was more firmly replanted by the orthodox successors of Bardanes, and the fine problems of the incarnation were forgotten in the more popular and visible quarrel of the worship of images.
- His hope did not deceive him; but, in the eagerness to pursue it, he forgot the precaution with which he had walked before, and fell headlong from the top to the bottom of the cliff, which fortunately for him was not at this place above ten or twelve feet deep, and he reached the bottom, without breaking any of his limbs, at the expence of some contusions.
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