Synonyms

1. headfirst

Sentence Examples

1. In conclusion, it seized first the corpse of the daughter, and thrust it up the chimney, as it was found then that of the old lady, which it immediately hurled through the window headlong.
2. For another thing I would have your graces understand that Sancho Panza is one of the drollest squires that ever served knight-errant sometimes there is a simplicity about him so acute that it is an amusement to try and make out whether he is simple or sharp he has mischievous tricks that stamp him rogue, and blundering ways that prove him a booby he doubts everything and believes everything when I fancy he is on the point of coming down headlong from sheer stupidity, he comes out with something shrewd that sends him up to the skies.
3. Several soldiers were running at us, but a few jumped out of the way at the sight of us charging headlong into them.
4. My desire was to bring to life again knight-errantry, now dead, and for some time past, stumbling here, falling there, now coming down headlong, now raising myself up again, I have carried out a great portion of my design, succouring widows, protecting maidens, and giving aid to wives, orphans, and minors, the proper and natural duty of knights-errant and, therefore, because of my many valiant and Christian achievements, I have been already found worthy to make my way in print to well-nigh all, or most, of the nations of the earth.
5. Those who survived the darkness would turn on each other, diving headlong into an every-man-for-himself mentality.
6. Charlie swerved, took hold of his assailant and they both plunged headlong into the corpse-filled pit.
7. What I have adduced, notwithstanding the minuteness with which I have adduced it, has been with the view, first, to show the folly of the positive and headlong assertions of Le Soleil, but secondly and chiefly, to bring you, by the most natural route, to a further contemplation of the doubt whether this assassination has, or has not been, the work of a gang.
8. From the rock of Gibraltar, now dwindled into a dim speck, the dark Mediterranean sea, dotted with shining islands as the heaven is dotted with stars, spread itself out to the eastward as far as my vision extended, until its entire mass of waters seemed at length to tumble headlong over the abyss of the horizon, and I found myself listening on tiptoe for the echoes of the mighty cataract.
9. The Los Angeles school system stumbled headlong toward total Armageddon.
10. In good time came to my rescue the spirit of despair, and, with frantic cries and struggles, I jerked my way bodily upwards, till at length, clutching with a vise-like grip the long-desired rim, I writhed my person over it, and fell headlong and shuddering within the car.