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
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
He found that the floor of this cave also inclined downwards, and he went very cautiously, lest he should come unawares upon a chasm and fall headlong to his doom.
From With Drake on the Spanish Main by Strang, Herbert
The stars glimmered all around us, and time and again we saw them detach themselves and fall headlong, tracing long strokes of fire upon the sky.
From The Legend of the Glorious Adventures of Tyl Ulenspiegel in the land of Flanders and elsewhere by Coster, Charles de
I was for some time afraid to move, lest I should fall headlong down.
From Dick Cheveley His Adventures and Misadventures by Groome, William H. C.
