How to Use foolishness in a Sentence

foolishness

noun
  • Don’t be afraid of the foolishness.
    — Selome Hailu, Variety, 21 Feb. 2026
  • None of that store-brand foolishness.
    — Lizz Schumer, People.com, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Not so much by her response as by my own foolishness.
    — Rachel Kushner, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Detroit, some young folks are at it again with the lead-footed foolishness.
    — Jasmin Barmore, Detroit Free Press, 6 Dec. 2022
  • The past is gone and the future isn't here yet, so quit wasting time on such foolishness.
    — Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 23 Nov. 2022
  • His dad kept him on the playgrounds, kept him into sports, and away from the foolishness.
    — Cameron Wolfe, The Denver Post, 27 May 2017
  • Sadly, that has come true, and two state troopers have paid the price for this foolishness with their lives.
    — Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, 3 Jan. 2017
  • And now Duke expects its customers to pay of its foolishness?
    — Ticked Off, Orlando Sentinel, 12 Nov. 2024
  • Just foolishness of course, just a story to tell, on a night when the bedsheet beasties walk the earth.
    — Rick Bragg, Southern Living, 11 July 2017
  • Oh and the Wildcat fan wasn’t even finished with his foolishness.
    — Rolando Rosa, ajc, 26 Nov. 2017
  • Maybe not by name, but undoubtedly her foolishness rings a bell.
    — Michael Arceneaux, Essence, 8 Aug. 2019
  • The star, who has made sure to call her co-stars out on their foolishness, has received the ire of their fans for doing so.
    — Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 24 Aug. 2022
  • Still, foolishness can sometimes bring good results; there are good results here, and some less than good.
    — Television Critic, Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2026
  • Any idiot with the patience and the budget to allow such foolishness can do it.
    — Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 8 May 2024
  • There were pieces of my knowledge of the foolishness of the human condition in all of them.
    — Lacey Rose, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Sep. 2022
  • Its lack of fear for humans initially turned it into a metaphor for foolishness.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 31 Jan. 2023
  • Most private schools have uniforms, which does away with a lot of the outfit foolishness during the day.
    — Norman Vanamee, Town & Country, 11 July 2021
  • These queries say more about the foolishness of the questioner than anything about the player.
    — Michael McCann, SI.com, 9 Mar. 2018
  • Zenyatta stay removed from the fray, sidling along like an outsider amused by all the foolishness.
    — Bill Dwyre, Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 2023
  • Social media, of course, laughed at the Bears for their foolishness in trading up.
    — Brendan Marks, charlotteobserver, 28 Aug. 2017
  • To expect everybody doing the same hours all the time, again, that’s just foolishness.
    — Shannon Liao, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2022
  • No sense of some torturous inner dialogue pulling him from the foolishness of this game show.
    — Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 12 Feb. 2024
  • The problem is not the companies but the system, whose foolishness is very clear to those, like me, who have spent decades abroad.
    — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 17 Dec. 2024
  • The women within these movements have warned of the foolishness of ignoring them.
    — Laura Smith, The Cut, 13 Aug. 2017
  • Cousins’s feeling of foolishness need not linger past the 2018 deadline.
    — Ben Golliver, SI.com, 27 Oct. 2017
  • Finally, all those lasers and fire pots and foolishness would be lost at Jazz Fest because the sun's out.
    — Doug MacCash, NOLA.com, 24 Jan. 2018
  • The Adams case is not the only one that will bring the foolishness of this directive into sharp relief.
    — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 15 Feb. 2025
  • Those experienced in drug R&D know the foolishness of such a claim.
    — John Lamattina, Forbes, 15 June 2021
  • To ignore those needs now, while flush with the resources to finally address them, would be the greatest foolishness of all.
    — Roy S. Johnson | [email protected], al, 5 Jan. 2022
  • The author covers the foolishness of our huge amount of military spending on defense.
    — Star Tribune, 12 June 2021

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