Sentence examples for doing something foolish from inspiring English sources

Try not to frighten him into doing something foolish.

It may be the result of a beginner doing something foolish, or an expert falling asleep, or an expert looking foolish but actually being diabolically clever.

It takes a special kind of person to try one in front of a full stadium, one with the willingness and the confidence to try to do something wonderful at the risk of doing something foolish.

Even before he was confirmed as defense secretary, Mattis's Democratic admirers in Congress warned him to stay close to Trump to prevent the president or his aides from doing something foolish.

The incident is a breach of the law of armed conflict, but the military hopes it will be seen in context, a young man doing something foolish in the post-battle adrenaline rush.

Cheever was all too familiar with the gin-sodden, mid-20th century residue of this sentiment: "you drink too much at cocktails you talk too much you make a pass at somebody's wife and you end with doing something foolish and obscene and wish in the morning you were dead".

George Osborne did something foolish last weekend.

What if people misinterpreted the results and did something foolish?

"A lot of people that don't have nothing to do with their time do something foolish," he said.

"I knew by the first evening that I had done something foolish to volunteer for this study".

If they fear abandonment, they could do something foolish and dangerous — like making a grab for disputed territory.