How to Use headlong in a Sentence

headlong

1 of 2 adverb

• I dove headlong to the floor.
• The girls team wasn't even the only squad that ran headlong into this rule this year.
  — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2023
• So where did that instinct come from to, like, run headlong into the scary new thing?
  — Gideon Lichfield, WIRED, 9 Aug. 2023
• Sikora is having the time of his life as a man who likes to mix it up and dive headlong into danger.
  — Nina Metz, chicagotribune.com, 11 Mar. 2022
• Sure enough, a big rock upended from beneath my toe and sent me lurching headlong to the water.
  — Bryan Hendricks, Arkansas Online, 15 Feb. 2026
• None of that is stopping the companies from rushing headlong into the space.
  — Gerrit De Vynck, Washington Post, 30 May 2023
• Konkle echoes this idea of running headlong into the fear not for shock value, but with intention.
  — Maria Fontoura, Rolling Stone, 26 Mar. 2021
• Even before the flashing lights of the rides and games fan out in front of you, the scents of sugar and barbecue smoke smack you headlong.
  — Jenna Schnuer, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Aug. 2023
• The future keeps moving forward, headlong.
  — Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 21 Apr. 2026
• Trying to bounce back from Covid, the world has run headlong into an energy crisis.
  — Christopher Helman, Forbes, 19 Oct. 2021
• The thing about special drives like that is the painful finality of things when emotions crash headlong into the guardrail.
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Apr. 2023
• Iran was rushing headlong to acquire a nuclear weapon and was apparently on the cusp of it.
  — Bobby Zirkin, Baltimore Sun, 5 Apr. 2026
• The momentum to take action may run headlong into thorny legal issues.
  — Matthew Brown, USA TODAY, 7 Oct. 2021
• Boy and girl marry and plunge headlong into a torrid, 200-year romance.
  — Reshma Gopaldas, Vogue, 17 Feb. 2026
• Now that our world seems to be opening again, many people are racing headlong into close physical contact.
  — Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 29 Sep. 2022
• To be sure, not everyone—big or small—is driving headlong into the EV future.
  — Mergermarket, Forbes, 27 May 2021
• But this week McCarthy ran headlong into the most perilous challenge of his career.
  — Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2023
• So why does Marvel Studios have to race headlong into the same narrative cul-du-sac that the comics did?
  — Adam B. Vary, Variety, 13 Nov. 2023
• Quetta was taken off on a stretcher to a hospital after going headlong into the boards.
  — Laura Crimaldi, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Jan. 2021
• What happens when the desire of football players to play bangs headlong into a student’s desire to party?
  — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 19 Aug. 2020
• But companies that straddle the line between digital tool and health provider will have no choice but to dive headlong into the legal morass.
  — Katie Palmer, STAT, 3 July 2022
• Then a tropical storm sent a huge amount of moisture up the coast from Mexico, running headlong into the heat wave.
  — Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 27 Apr. 2021
• Choose to run headlong into fierce battles against daunting foes or take advantage of the game’s stealth and combat systems to gain the upper hand.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 10 June 2021
• Nuveman Deniz’s willingness to shed ego and dive headlong into the deep end of the role-changing pool has been noticed.
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 May 2023
• That idea runs headlong into the danger of seemingly conscious AI.
  — Ron Schmelzer, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
• While Saul runs headlong from any shot at redemption, Kim confesses to her crimes and sets the record straight about Howard.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 13 Aug. 2022
• In the scene, the camera swoops above an invading army, then pauses as a bearded giant runs headlong into a castle, smashing its wall.
  — Vulture, 20 Dec. 2022
• And yet, despite the warning signs, Maui has hurtled headlong into a housing emergency.
  — Reis Thebault, Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2023
• But the company’s green ambitions ran headlong into its commercial aims.
  — Matt Day, Fortune, 9 July 2026
• Except that trend has now lost momentum, and the economics of a would-be gold rush are running headlong into reality.
  — Dallas Morning News, 15 Mar. 2026

headlong

2 of 2 adjective

• Its judgments are mostly sound, but for all its heft there’s something headlong about it.
  — Thomas Mallon, The New Yorker, 30 May 2022
• That headlong, try-everything ambition is all over the place here.
  — Jon Dolan, Rolling Stone, 11 Feb. 2022
• Like much of the war, this denouement was a long time coming but unfolded in a headlong rush.
  — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2021
• Few sectors have been transformed by that headlong rush more than global memory.
  — Bloomberg Wire, Dallas Morning News, 16 Feb. 2026
• Few sectors have been transformed by that headlong rush more than global memory.
  — Debby Wu, Fortune, 15 Feb. 2026
• People schemed, finagled, wheedled, and conspired, caught up in the mad, headlong rush of the city.
  — Adam Kirsch, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2023
• How much of this headlong embrace of online learning sticks when everyone goes back to school is anyone’s guess.
  — Jenny Anderson, Quartz, 5 Mar. 2020
• And any time mood and conditions dictate, a push on the right pedal can serve up a headlong rush into the distant scenery.
  — Kevin Smith, Car and Driver, 24 June 2023
• What burning question prompted such a headlong pursuit?
  — Literary Hub, 9 Apr. 2026
• What burning question prompted such a headlong pursuit?
  — Kristen Roupenian, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2026
• Crosby’s headlong crash into the boards Monday night was enough to cause some people to shudder and look away.
  — The Washington Post, The Denver Post, 9 May 2017
• But progress on the South China Sea question has been so slow as to make the trade talks look like a headlong dash.
  — The Economist, 4 Nov. 2019
• Only three weeks after that move, Wanda is in headlong strategic retreat.
  — Alan Murray, Fortune, 10 July 2017
• Then came his abrupt turn, and a headlong descent into some of the darkest places in Georgia history.
  — New York Times, 18 Feb. 2021
• His headlong pursuit of celebrity will rankle many people, and even those close to him acknowledge that the idea of it consumed him.
  — David Howard, Popular Mechanics, 30 Aug. 2020
• Her life is almost nothing besides this desperate, headlong attempt to outlast her own pain.
  — Sonia Saraiya, HWD, 5 July 2018
• Thus begins his black-market weapons practice and a headlong collision with bored-and-antsy Parker.
  — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 7 July 2017
• How could a headlong girl have foreseen her imprisonment in Max Gate, the gloomy house Hardy built?
  — Lyndall Gordon, WSJ, 27 Oct. 2022
• The context of their headlong infatuation is a blood feud that rages unabated in Verona.
  — Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2021
• The other murder takes place at the top of a staircase and the camera follows the headlong fall of the blood covered murder victim all the way down the stairs.
  — Thr Staff, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 June 2017
• Yet not even Hart’s sheer, headlong Kevin Hart-ness can do anything for this loud, coarse, flaccid comedy.
  — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Aug. 2022
• Our role is not to answer but to question, and to let our questioning run headlong, reckless, into the inarticulate.
  — Stephen Marche, The Atlantic, 15 Sep. 2022
• On top of this, the signal sent by Biden’s headlong retreat had a devastating effect on Afghan morale from the top on down.
  — The Editors, National Review, 15 Aug. 2021
• After decades of headlong frontal assaults while wildly shooting from the hip, stormtroopers have at last stumbled upon basic tactics.
  — Angry Staff Officer, Wired, 9 Dec. 2020
• In the headlong rush for technological supremacy, strange new risks are being created.
  — Billy Perrigo, Time, 27 Aug. 2025
• Bringing them to market will require a financial commitment and a headlong march into the green tech economy.
  — Ken Silverstein, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2022
• Its data shows that GAAP earnings are still growing, though at a crawl compared with the headlong sprint over the last few years.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 31 Aug. 2019
• Democratic lawmakers had been in a headlong race to finalize an agreement before the end of the legislative session this week.
  — Vivian Wang, New York Times, 19 June 2019
• Cutting-edge science is littered with monuments to hubris, impatience, and headlong speed by researchers intent on changing the world.
  — Stephen S. Hall, Wired, 11 Mar. 2021
• Too often, assessment results plunge educators headlong into a flood of data, but leave them with a drought of actionable next steps.
  — Richard Carranza, Forbes.com, 18 Feb. 2026