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Examples of folly in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web As the stranger suffers from the clash of two crucially different views of reality, the report becomes an indictment and a record of human folly with political undertones. Jeff Vandermeer, The Atlantic, 27 Sep. 2024 The Debt Bomb Bad times also focus the mind on follies. Trefis Team, Forbes, 17 Sep. 2024 The film ranks among the greatest portraits of artistic folly and plain madness ever captured on film. Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2024 Compare the celebrated hearings of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in the 1960s organized by Chairman J. William Fulbright, which exposed the monumental lies and follies of the Vietnam War. Armstrong Williams, Baltimore Sun, 7 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for folly 

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“Folly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/folly. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.

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