How to Use harebrained in a Sentence

harebrained

adjective

• Things got even more harebrained further down the Reddit thread.
  — Justin Curto, Vulture, 6 Mar. 2025
• With the way things have gone for the Spurs over the past month, Popovich is open for suggestions, harebrained or not.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 5 Feb. 2018
• Of all his campaign pledges, none was more appealing to those at his rallies than the border wall, and none was more harebrained.
  — Steve Chapman, chicagotribune.com, 14 Mar. 2018
• Thereafter, a harebrained surgery fuses the two of them together and Dog Man is born!
  — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 30 Apr. 2025
• So we don’t get lost in harebrained dreams or computer programs taken for reality.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 17 Jan. 2018
• However, there is a certain charm to the harebrained things that got greenlit in the age of Aqua Net and leg warmers.
  — Tim Moffatt, EW.com, 20 May 2024
• Lucy’s harebrained schemes constantly sent Ricky over the edge — and had audiences howling with laughter.
  — Huntley Woods, Entertainment Weekly, 3 June 2026
• The cross-country cycling tour was my grandfather's harebrained scheme for exploring his adoptive homeland.
  — Daniel De Vise, Chicago Reader, 21 June 2018
• Because more often than not, a harebrained idea can turn into the perfect message that will resonate with other people trying to find the right words to say.
  — Sarah Cook, al.com, 15 July 2019
• In the first season, Lance is Brooke’s loser boyfriend, who is always pitching harebrained ideas for custom sneakers.
  — Phillip MacIak, The New Republic, 9 June 2023
• This is hardly the first time D’Souza has said something wrong/inflammatory/harebrained.
  — Dan Sweeney, Sun-Sentinel.com, 4 May 2018
• This is a far better approach to increasing revenue than a harebrained attempt to increase monthly active users through the alleged allure of longer tweets.
  — Gregg Opelka, WSJ, 3 Oct. 2017
• The problems with the White House's harebrained idea here should be obvious to anyone who put more than ten minutes of thought into it before putting pen to paper.
  — Jay Willis, GQ, 13 Feb. 2018
• Kennedy could have blamed the Eisenhower administration for initiating such a harebrained plan.
  — John C. Moritz, Austin American Statesman, 1 Feb. 2026
• Only the steeliest of investors would dare become an entrepreneur in this economy; wannabe investors cling on to solid careers rather than risk it all for some harebrained cash grab.
  — Robert Stevens, Fortune, 1 Nov. 2022
• But that scheme is a bit harebrained, because the explosions would also introduce deadly radioactive material into the air.
  — Sven Bilén, Discover Magazine, 17 July 2024
• Ed Whelan freestyled a harebrained theory about mistaken identity on Twitter right in front of everyone.
  — David Roberts, Vox, 2 Nov. 2018
• Leanne elicits the help of her high school boyfriend (Skeet Ulrich) and his onetime prison buddy (Craig Robinson) on a harebrained abduction scheme.
  — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 6 July 2017
• Reynolds thrived in front of a live studio audience, playing a college-age rascal who was more interested in messing with his friends and pursuing harebrained schemes than deciding on a major.
  — Jesse David Fox, Vulture, 2 Aug. 2024
• Harebrained’s Jordan Weisman also told us about some intriguing risk/reward mechanics during a recent demo.
  — Hayden Dingman, PCWorld, 1 June 2017
• But the fans there—as well as the fans in Montreal, so cruelly stripped of their Expos—shouldn’t have to settle for half a team through some harebrained cross-country scheme that features one foot constantly out the door.
  — Jon Tayler, SI.com, 20 June 2019
• Leading up to the scene, the ever-hustling Mauser is rushing from one harebrained scheme to another in order to get cash to travel to Tokyo to compete in the world championships for table tennis.
  — Martha Ross, Mercury News, 31 Dec. 2025
• Financing ostensibly harebrained schemes is an Affeldt specialty.
  — Susan Spano, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2019
• Climate policy is not some kind of utopian lefty scheme put forward by harebrained hippies; it's meant to deal with a screaming emergency that threatens all humanity, very much including Americans.
  — Ryan Cooper, The Week, 11 June 2021
• To be sure, proposing to use an adversary’s lines of communication seems to be a harebrained idea indicative of blundering naivete and hubris, but accounts differ on who suggested it, and the plan seems to never have been enacted anyway.
  — vanityfair.com, 1 June 2017
• Andersen is unduly harsh toward the harebrained idealists of the ’60s, perhaps overreacting to his own youthful gullibility.
  — Norm Ornstein, The Atlantic, 10 Oct. 2017
• For seven seasons, Ansari played Tom Haverford, the goofy Parks administrator who was constantly cooking up harebrained schemes to make a quick buck, or just entertain himself.
  — Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 27 Mar. 2025
• When his harebrained money-laundering scheme loses millions of the cartel’s cash, Hanson is caught in a web of dangerous debt, absurd criminal mishap and a huge FBI takedown.
  — Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 28 Aug. 2025
• Now Supervisor Aaron Peskin, last seen mounting a harebrained scheme to prevent companies from offering lunch to their employees, is back in the news with another empty gesture.
  — Casey Newton, The Verge, 30 Nov. 2018
• In Dog Man, after a faithful police dog and his human police officer owner are injured together on the job, a harebrained but life-saving surgery fuses them together and Dog Man is born.
  — Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 29 Jan. 2025