Synonym: hasty, headfirst, precipitately, rashly. Similar words: deadlock, headland, headlamp, headline, headlight, headstrong, padlock, beadle. Meaning: adj. 1. excessively quick 2. with the head foremost. adv. 1. with the head foremost 2. at breakneck speed 3. in a hasty and foolhardy manner.
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(61) Settlers rushed headlong across the wilderness to claim the best land.
(62) Here in the open grass he broke into a headlong run, lurching and recovering as the tussocks turned under him.
(63) He tumbled headlong and wigless to the floor.
(64) The runner slid headlong into third base.
(65) An incautious step sent her headlong down the stairs.
(66) He persisted in his headlong stagger, guided on by Herb.
(67) Those who rush headlong into love like crazy are teenagers.
(68) Flinging headlong into busywork itself is another way to seem indispensable.
(69) It hurls itself against him without mercy as he flees headlong from its power.
(70) He taketh the wise in their own and the counsel of froward is carried headlong.
(71) He taketh the wise in their craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.
(72) As to women,[www.Sentencedict.com] he had once already been drawn headlong by impetuous folly.
(73) The little boy fell headlong down the flight of stairs.
(74) Hawthorne attempts to dissociate himself from the headlong calamity which he, too, records.
(75) Without a comprehensive plan, we should refrain from rushing headlong into actions.
(76) Me and my girl had a nasty breakup after months of me not just falling, but running headlong into the depths of depression and self-destruction.
(77) And rose up, and thrust him out of the city, and led him unto the brow of the hill whereon their city was built, that they might cast him down headlong.
(78) The country, they say, will inevitably now plunge headlong into decadence.
(79) People do not fall headlong on stumpe of underwood with impunity.
(80) Back in 1980, I thought I'd plunged headlong into the journalistic Dark Ages.
(81) That world is fragmenting fast, a victim of India's surging population and headlong eagerness to modernize.
(82) Picking out the very biggest apple in the store-room he stole into the kitchen, slipped it into Pelageya's hand, and darted headlong away.
(83) There is a place in Africa where the deep green lazy water of the peaceful Zambezi River plunges headlong 100 meters down into wet granite gorges.
(84) The dog screamed, and wheeling in terror, galloped headlong in a new direction.
(85) Their battle plan is to charge headlong at the enemy.
(86) In headlong retreat after the Battle of El Alamein, Rommel had disobeyed orders of his F ü hrer.
More similar words: deadlock, headland, headlamp, headline, headlight, headstrong, padlock, beadle, deadly, deadline, dead letter, breadline, threadlike, long., long, tread lightly, along, oblong, belong, long for, not long, for long, longer, so long, furlong, prolong, go along, all along, longing, long-run.