How to Use reckless in a Sentence

reckless

adjective

• He is a wild and reckless young man.
• He showed a reckless disregard for the safety of others.
• He spends money with reckless abandon.
• None of these moves were reckless.
  — Julia Korn, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
• But bold doesn’t mean reckless.
  — Jim Heininger, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
• This isn’t some reckless, one-off stunt.
  — Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 13 Apr. 2026
• Still, some players are reckless enough to get caught.
  — Danny Funt, New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2025
• The captain wasn’t reckless or stupid.
  — Tribune News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Apr. 2026
• This was reckless and careless.
  — Tom Jurkowsky, Baltimore Sun, 25 Apr. 2026
• These raids are reckless and sow more chaos and division in our city.
  — Anna Commander amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 June 2025
• This reckless ménage à trois turns all three of their lives upside down.
  — Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 6 Aug. 2023
• Both also were charged as adults with four counts of reckless murder.
  — Carol Robinson | [email protected], al, 21 Apr. 2023
• Simply put, there are no laws on the books that apply to this reckless act.
  — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 22 Mar. 2022
• Meade was charged with two counts of murder and one count of reckless homicide.
  — Adia Robinson, ABC News, 2 Dec. 2021
• No doubt many people running with the bulls are brave, but many are reckless.
  — Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 7 July 2022
• That’s why the fellas look more reckless in their choices.
  — Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 23 Sep. 2025
• His daring, sometimes reckless style had caught up to him.
  — Zak Keefer, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2026
• Flowers strain on stalks to open all out and, reckless, cast pollen to the future.
  — Marjorie Garvey, National Review, 13 Apr. 2023
• That’s not reckless; that’s strategic.
  — Talbott Roche, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
• For speeders, drunks, reckless drivers and the like.
  — Jim Radcliffe, Oc Register, 25 June 2026
• The jury did not find Vaught guilty on the charge of reckless homicide.
  — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 1 Apr. 2022
• But…that is such a grossly reckless act that someone's likely to die.
  — Josh Yager, CBS News, 4 Oct. 2024
• He was also charged with four counts of reckless murder, state police said.
  — Jamie Morrison, NBC News, 20 Apr. 2023
• But there is a responsible path and a reckless one.
  — Mark Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Sep. 2025
• But adding hundreds of billions of new spending is still reckless.
  — Stephen Moore, WSJ, 22 Aug. 2022
• Correspondence was at the very least clunky, and at most, reckless.
  — Rachyl Jones, semafor.com, 27 Mar. 2026
• There’s a lot out there that portrays them as this reckless death cult that are just adrenaline junkies.
  — Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Mar. 2024
• Longet was not charged with homicide, but rather with reckless manslaughter.
  — Jordana Comiter, PEOPLE, 2 May 2026
• The teen has been charged with reckless homicide, a second-class felony, per the update.
  — Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 12 Jan. 2026
• Our soldiers will have to put their lives on the line to defend his reckless decisions.
  — Joseph Morton, Dallas Morning News, 28 Feb. 2026