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Example sentences for "heedlessly"

Lexicographically close words:
heedful; heedfully; heedfulness; heeding; heedless; heedlessness; heeds; heeft; heel; heeld
  1. He must have a care, however, lest, in pursuing too heedlessly the superficial symmetry of forms and motions, he leave out of sight the really essential symmetry of the principles which determine and control them.

  2. It is merely because a stepping-stone, here and there, is heedlessly left unsupplied in our road to the Differential Calculus, that this latter is not altogether as simple a thing as a sonnet by Mr. Solomon Seesaw.

  3. They knew as well as the whites that the punishment administered to the frontiersmen was almost wholly due to the rash boldness of the latter, who, rushing heedlessly after the scurrying savages, made ambuscades possible.

  4. An opening being made, the army poured heedlessly along.

  5. It seemed as if a finger was straying heedlessly across the strings.

  6. Lost to all around me, I wandered carelessly, heedlessly on, neither noticing the glittering throng around, nor feeling a thought in common with the gay and joyous spirits that flitted by.

  7. Over this airy causeway the men and horses succeeded in effecting their passage with the loss of a single Spaniard, who, made giddy by heedlessly looking down, lost his footing and fell into the boiling surges below.

  8. There needed nothing further and the men rushed forward in tumultuous haste, the pikemen carrying their levelled weapons so heedlessly as to interfere with one another, and in some instances to wound their comrades.

  9. For he was like one who had heedlessly climbed far up a dizzy precipice, - too far to descend safely, while he had no sure hold where he was.

  10. Heedlessly generous with the divine faith of youth, Diane de Monesthrol gave her love to the stranger.

  11. It was like a child heedlessly playing with fire, for she had formed no conception of what strong human passion might mean.

  12. The king should never act heedlessly in the matter of watching his friends.

  13. Acting heedlessly I commanded the high-souled Chirakarin (to slay that wife of mine).

  14. As thou hast heedlessly slain this my cow, even so wilt thy foe cut off thy head while thou shalt be heedless!

  15. Wait not for the modest poor, or heedlessly perishing, to ask for aid; but go forth in search of objects appropriate for philanthropy to relieve, to enlighten, to cheer.

  16. A hundred roads lie before me, when they don't know whether to go out or in; and where they rush heedlessly forwards I see the abyss that they are running to.

  17. The children, so well clothed and shod for the winter, passed heedlessly before the unknown child.

  18. And still he pressed heedlessly on farther and farther, till, after a while, he found himself thrusting through a thick coppice of willow boughs.

  19. Along the pavement, seemingly in furtherance of the careless design of the wind, a girl went heedlessly scushling along among the unresting and unresisting leaves, making with her rather short skirt a mimic whirlwind of her own.

  20. Veil my mind once more in slumbers Let me heedlessly rejoice; Never have I sung glad numbers Since I've been thy chosen voice.

  21. And do you know that you are but a thoughtless boy, and are embarking on the most weighty passage of your life as heedlessly as a giddy girl?

  22. Thou didst not heedlessly provoke the war; As it commenced, so let it spend its fury.

  23. If he succeeds in tightening the noose into which the boy has so heedlessly thrust his head--But first tell me, has he caught him already, or is Alexander still at liberty?

  24. As we learnt afterwards, our vessels were mistaken at Massowah also for mail-ships which were heedlessly running into the hands of the cruisers guarding the canal.

  25. The smallness of this sum, with the difficulties which William found in raising it, suffices alone to refute the account which is heedlessly adopted by historians, of the enormous revenue of the Conqueror.

  26. Not seldom, a single sentence sufficed to lay a daring antagonist sprawling on the ground amid the roaring laughter of the House, the luckless victim feeling as if he had heedlessly touched a heavily charged electric wire.

  27. Burgoyne knew better than to heedlessly rush upon the lines that had proved Abercromby's destruction.

  28. Meantime, the Americans were heedlessly pressing on, without order, to the rescue of their comrades.

  29. In fulfilment of his last wishes I made diligent search for the remaining portions of this his work, but failed to find them, and can only suppose that they have been heedlessly destroyed.

  30. But Richard strode up and down, treading heedlessly on the flouncings of her dress.

  31. Heedlessly exposing himself in the front of the battle, he received two wounds in the very first encounter.

  32. They would fight hard for booty, and then gamble it heedlessly away or squander it in licentious revelling.

  33. This same little scene at the cathedral door came before me again as I saw the Oxonian youth, with their morning-faces, passing so heedlessly those ancient sculptures at Magdalen.

  34. There is a vacant side to the quadrangle, which, it is to be feared, awaits the truer teaching that would fill it up with the real dragons which no youth could heedlessly pass.


  35. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "heedlessly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    anyhow; carelessly; clumsily; desperately; dispassionately; furiously; hastily; headfirst; headlong; heedlessly; impetuously; inadvertently; involuntarily; madly; offhand; recklessly; wildly