headstrong

Example Sentences

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We don’t yet want to say that the situation has spiraled out of control, but the spiral could be only a couple of headstrong choices away.

From Slate • Mar. 21, 2026

As a headstrong piano student, he made rapid if idiosyncratic progress.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

"They are incredibly headstrong people and probably saw the pitfalls of signing deals," says RWD magazine founder Dacre Bracey, who has covered grime since its inception.

From BBC • Oct. 31, 2025

Riding those subterranean rails is Cora, a headstrong enslaved woman determined to find her freedom in the North and learn the fate of her disappeared mother.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2025

Ptolemy was a headstrong boy, not a military mastermind.

From "Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen" by Susan Blackaby