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Headfirst


Definition:

  • (adv.) Alt. of Headforemost

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He’s the ultimate Gary Stu character: a billionaire beholden to no one and able to abuse every disingenuous and pettifogging remora latched headfirst on the nation and sucking upward.
  • (2) Straight afterwards I got bundled off the stage, headfirst into the crowd.
  • (3) But the radio is still playing, the heater is on and it doesn't seem all that bad, except for the certain knowledge that sooner or later you will definitely be going headfirst through the windscreen.
  • (4) Nick Clegg , the deputy prime minister, has launched a full-frontal attack on Conservative Eurosceptics within the coalition, describing their aims as "economic suicide" and ruling out a "headfirst" charge towards a repatriation of powers from Europe.
  • (5) I can do that.” • Al Murray – The Pub Landlord: Let’s Go Backwards Together is at Assembly George Square Gardens, Edinburgh, 4-14 August Omid Djalili Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘Fell headfirst off the stage’ … Omid Djalili in 1997.
  • (6) The brothers bonded through kickabouts in their local park and swimming, running across shingle beaches headfirst into the English Channel.
  • (7) This involves two of you clinging onto a double-sized bodyboard with four handles and launching yourselves headfirst into the surf.
  • (8) It does not seem so obvious today and libel reform is not the only screaming child hurtling headfirst towards the pavement.
  • (9) So I took a step forward to pick it up and fell headfirst off the stage.
  • (10) After some deliberation, they pulled my two siblings and me out of normal school and dived into homeschooling headfirst.
  • (11) Donald Trump , the unexpected frontrunner in the race for the Republican nomination for president, plunged headfirst into the primary’s first televised debate on Thursday, causing an instant splash that was remarkable even by his own standards.
  • (12) First, we won't run headfirst towards treaty change.
  • (13) Another youth was permanently injured after diving headfirst into shallow water near Calais.

Headlong


Definition:

  • (a. & adv.) With the head foremost; as, to fall headlong.
  • (a. & adv.) Rashly; precipitately; without deliberation.
  • (a. & adv.) Hastily; without delay or respite.
  • (a.) Rash; precipitate; as, headlong folly.
  • (a.) Steep; precipitous.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But if May rushes headlong into a panicked triggering of article 50 without a clear idea of what she wants out of negotiations, she will have left us at the mercy of 27 countries who have heard little but table-thumping and empty threats from ministers.
  • (2) Photograph: Amelia Jacobsen A second successive nomination for Long, whose increasing public prominence has coincided with a political awakening that has seen her dive headlong into activism as part of groups like UK Uncut .
  • (3) This does not have to be a headlong charge, but there is no doubt in my mind that it must happen."
  • (4) "But the danger always is that the debate becomes very quickly polarised between one side which says this is the moment to rush headlong towards further integration, new treaties, new intergovernmental conferences, new arcane debates about EU powers, and another side that says this is the moment to unravel the whole thing.
  • (5) Theresa May’s tactic is clear: to accuse anyone who dares question her headlong, blindfold charge towards hard Brexit of being democracy deniers.
  • (6) Before slaughtering the chickens are hung up headlong.
  • (7) These moves are significant because the above list includes some strongly backed National candidates – especially Goold, who led the Headlong company, and Featherstone – but no recent appointee to another theatre could now express interest in Hytner's job without disqualifying themselves because of the appearance of fickleness.
  • (8) Teunis Brosens at ING Financial Markets described the July home sales reading as a "headlong plunge".
  • (9) The lesions of C2 seen in hyperextension injuries of the cervical spine following motor vehicle accidents, diving accidents, and headlong falls resemble the cervical lesion found in judicial hangings.
  • (10) Inspired by Coltrane's development of a packed and fervent sax style - not only bursting with headlong arpeggios but often featuring overtones and multiphonics allowing more than one note to be sounded at a time - Jones's expansion of Art Blakey's technique became appropriately hectic, too.
  • (11) Some shook their heads ruefully, sadly noting that they had long warned such violence would be the result of the headlong rush to a multicultural, rainbow-hued future.
  • (12) It showed itself, physically, in such feats as his famous headlong deathfall off a 12-foot-high platform in Coriolanus (Olivier was 52 at the time).
  • (13) The ignominy of a great country, a country of world famous humanists and scientists, turning headlong into a backwards Asiatic province.
  • (14) Politics The Red Army arrives In the film's first scene, Polish families fleeing east from the invading Nazis run headlong into Polish families fleeing west from the invading Soviets.
  • (15) February 21, 2014 Updated at 10.31pm GMT 9.54pm GMT “Yanukovych’s position looks increasingly untenable ,” writes Guardian Europe editor Ian Traynor (@ TraynorBrussels ), in his report on a headlong day of political activity: But, with the opposing sides entrenched and highly polarised as seldom before as a result of this week’s bloodshed, it was also not clear whether the core of the protesters, who have camped out in winter conditions for three months, would accept anything less than Yanukovych’s resignation.
  • (16) Such eerie parallels may well be found during the nationwide tour of The Absence of War , staged by Headlong and directed by Jeremy Herrin .
  • (17) The strategy adopted by the Kremlin, under the tutelage of the IMF and the US treasury, involved a headlong dash towards privatisation and liberalisation that became known as "shock therapy".
  • (18) I was out on my own for the first time, throwing myself headlong into making my mark, and letting the world mark me.
  • (19) If this Conservative government cared about Britain and cared about what makes our country great they would not be running headlong towards a hard Brexit like this.
  • (20) They have put a brake on the Tories headlong rush to shake up the NHS.

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