Sentence examples for walk headlong from inspiring English sources

"walk headlong" is a grammatically correct phrase and can be used in written English.
It means to walk quickly and with determination, often without regard for one's surroundings. Example: She walked headlong through the crowded street, dodging people and obstacles as she rushed to catch the last train.

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"Sometimes I can see fine, at other times I walk headlong into walls".

It is much better for U.S. prestige and credibility to walk headlong into a catastrophe and keep at it than to weigh options -- that would be dithering -- or to admit a mistake and become a derided flip-flopper.

The antics in this rigorously gymnastic comedy look dangerous -- Ms. Finneran has to walk headlong into walls and doors -- and she has the wounds to show for it.

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One of them walked headlong into a door.

Even though he has walked headlong into one of the greatest economic disasters in history, faced the headwinds of the Party of No creating historic gridlock, and felt the political giving ground give way as the corporatocracy has pulled out the stops to keep their offshore tax loopholes and prevent regulation of Wild West Wall Street, he is doing, all in all, pretty well.

This movement, directed by Alice Auma, an Acholi who claimed to be acting on guidance from the spirit Lakwena, brought a mystical belief in their own invincibility that the soldiers of the Kampala-based government at first found terrifying: Holy Spirit Movement devotees walked headlong into blazing gunfire singing songs and holding stones they believed would turn into grenades.

The Ali G actor took the cane, did a Chaplin-style walk, slipped, made to grab the wheelchair for support, propelling the woman headlong off the raised stage and into the crowd.

Before this match-up is over, it certainly would be wonderful to see some Celtic -- perhaps "Big Baby" Davis -- flying headlong into Jack Nicholson, who apparently has the prescriptive right to walk on the court whenever he wishes.

And usually we're in such a hurry, with the whole city rushing headlong around us, that we can miss what we're walking past.

Typical of the negative drumbeat from analysts who once thought that Son could walk on water is this October comment from Benjamin Wedmore of HSBC: "Softbank continues its headlong rush to invest despite offering no proof as to its operational ability to generate profits".

In the morning we took a wildflower walk through a live-oak forest, stopped off at the Children's Museum of Houston and then rushed headlong for a flight home.

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