Sentence examples for they were foolhardy from inspiring English sources

THEY were foolhardy at first.

The obvious question is "What were they thinking?" The obvious answer is that they were not thinking, they were foolhardy.

Discovering Great America, Again If my daughter and her companion had planned this trip in 1976, many would have thought they were foolhardy, imprudent and possibly daft.

At the same time, they know they cannot be foolhardy and let ego get the better of them.

Executives, they said, had been foolhardy about their exposure to real estate, and their decisions to grow the firm's portfolio had more to do with executive compensation than expected profitability.

But Ms. Dochery of Cadillac thinks that other carmakers are foolhardy if they back off from embracing female customers.

This may be painful, but retaining unhealthy laws simply because they are already on the books is foolhardy.

It would be foolhardy to think that they reflect a single culture.

Coaches have recognized that pushing the guys in uniform — even when they are wearing only shorts and no pads — is foolhardy.

But would even Iran's fire-breathing clerics be foolhardy enough to threaten Israel or anyone else with nuclear weapons, if they had them?

Coe admitted that while it would be foolhardy to claim that the testers were ahead of the cheats, he was confident they would be caught.