fall headlong
Example Sentences
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Again & again wily Senator Black would trip Witness Hopson up, cause him to fall headlong into puddles of contradiction.
From Time Magazine Archive
At a wild scream from the girl those in advance turned in time to see the flying form of a young Indian, who had just emerged from the near-by forest, fall headlong at her feet.
From At War with Pontiac The Totem of the Bear by Munroe, Kirk
Willie, who was about to follow, had barely time to spring back and gain a firm footing, when he beheld his brother fall headlong into the smoking ruins below.
From Fighting the Flames by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
Failing, he would fall headlong into the inevitable chopsticks, beating it out with the air of a master.
From Exit Betty by Hill, Grace Livingston
I expected every moment to see him fall headlong, half dead.
From Cuore (Heart) An Italian Schoolboy's Journal by Hapgood, Isabel Florence
