Sentence examples for fool thing from inspiring English sources

It is a fool thing to call out and he must be punished.

Not only have I never worked on a weekend, I've never met anyone who's done such a damn fool thing".

No one's questioning the filmmakers' right to do any damn fool thing they want, but "Vendetta" doesn't parse.

I knew it was a fool thing to do; I wouldn't get out of the sun by moving on a yard or so.

No one imagined that the outrage had more than local importance, much less that Bismarck's prophecy about "some damned fool thing in the Balkans" starting the next war was about to be fulfilled.

Rowan listened with astonishment as Eriksson apprised him of the Sergeant's plan, but when Eriksson asked his friend whether he thought Meserve's statements should be reported to an officer before the patrol left camp, Rowan immediately shook his head, replying, as the court record shows, "Meserve wouldn't dare do such a fool thing".

Why should a citizen keep beating his brains out explaining all this when the media keeps saying such dang fool things about him?

I tried my best, of course, to fool the thing.

As Holton remembers it, her father replied, "Why would you do a dang-fool thing like that?" He saw local government as a dead end, paralyzed by infighting.

"A Treatise of Civil Power" is a measured, brilliant book; but its measurements are at times disfigured by Hill's peculiar sidling, forelock-tugging commentary, full of nervous gestures and mock afflictions ("This I can live with," "I know that sounds / a damn-fool thing to say"), as well as subtle misreadings or corrections of things just said, as if every page required an errata sheet.

But democratic governments can do damn-fool things; sending men into space, for example.