Sentence examples for was foolish at from inspiring English sources

"I made the foolish offer--and I didn't know it was foolish at the time, because I didn't have any children--to come back to work a week after giving birth to my first child," she says.

On the contrary, cutting billions would be foolish at a time when joblessness is high and the recovery needs stimulus, not tightening.

"Quite honestly, putting in preconditions is foolish at a time like this," he added.

Any notions to the contrary are foolish at best, but a new Kickstarter project called Circle wants to help families fight back against the Internet's omnipresence with hardware and software that allows individual control of devices connected to a local network.

Waiting until later is foolish at best and disastrous at worst.

Senators may be foolish at times but they are not stupid.

However, my feeling is that the changes are foolish, at best window dressing, but potentially destructive.

Roberts says wistfully: "Some say I was brave, some say I was foolish but at 50 I'm at peace with who I am, but would love to know where my special niche to help people is.

"Before the election, countless people told me that it was foolish to expect any free schools at all to open in September 2011.

In conversations with HuffPost, men and women agreed it was foolish to roam the campgrounds unaccompanied at night, lest someone act inappropriately.

What was foolish then is foolish now.