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Example sentences for "foolishness"

Lexicographically close words:
foolishe; foolisher; foolishest; foolishly; foolishment; fools; foolscap; foor; foorce; foorced
  1. So, then, if we have been foolish, let us at least utilize our foolishness by drawing from it lessons of wisdom for the future.

  2. The foolishness of letting all of the rainfall go to waste, is an old time folly with us.

  3. I've tooken care of as many as twenty at a time, easy, but I'll be hanged if I ever heard of such foolishness as every one of these fellers wantin' a room to hisself.

  4. Your human name is nothing--it is zero--it counts for foolishness with God!

  5. You couldn't make me believe them true even if you argued for weeks--and we have no time for such foolishness now.

  6. Deep Humility is a strong Bulwark; and, as we enter into it, we find Safety: The Foolishness of God is wiser than Man, and the Weakness of God is stronger than Man.

  7. As my Meditations have been on these Things, Compassion hath filled my Heart toward my Fellow Creatures, involved in Customs, grown up in the Wisdom of this World, which is Foolishness with God, 1 Cor.

  8. Jed, he mumbled some kind of foolishness about some things givin' him earache.

  9. It has pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.

  10. For seeing that in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom didn't know God, it was God's good pleasure through the foolishness of the preaching to save those who believe.

  11. Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

  12. For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are dying, but to us who are saved it is the power of God.

  13. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God.

  14. The foolishness of England in Ireland finds an exact parallel, although on a smaller scale and for a shorter period, in the early foolishness of England in her own colonies.

  15. I always changes 'em fer a new tenant, but looks like it would be foolishness to take off perfectly clean things, 'thout spot or speck on 'em.

  16. Just put up that flimsy foolishness and come drive over to Milton with me.

  17. For it is foolishness to him: and he cannot understand, because it is spiritually examined.

  18. For the foolishness of God is wiser than men: and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

  19. He lies now where I stood, and under the arms on his tomb is no record of the political foolishness and instability of a life otherwise free from blame.

  20. A little later he said: "I see thou hast taken to the foolishness of black garments.

  21. We had a bad dog that didn't take no foolishness off nobody, so when he kept barking them Yankees cursed him and do you know he heshed up?

  22. The world of men had seemed to him a world of sorrow and foolishness and lies, and so he had forsaken it to dwell with silence and beauty and the sound of the sea.

  23. After chasing him backwards and forwards, the rat finally got tired of this foolishness and started for his hole.

  24. I can't see anything to laugh at in such foolishness as that.

  25. Each one prayed that all this foolishness might end one way or the other.

  26. When he came up to me, he said, "Massa wants to know what all dis darn foolishness is about.

  27. But all that foolishness had the desired effect.

  28. I told him that it was all foolishness to lug those heavy saddles all over the Southern Confederacy.

  29. We think of the minister often worried, almost distracted, by "the care of the churches," by the crabbed foolishness and miserable jealousies of contentious men and women.

  30. Yes, there were preachers before Christ, and long previous to His coming "it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching" to save them that believed.

  31. In the depths of this delicious foolishness the boyish heart grows to the measure of manhood; bats and boats and "fellows" are forever deposed, and lovely woman reigns in their stead.

  32. But, after all, it is in the depths of this delicious foolishness that the heart attains its noblest growth.

  33. For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

  34. For after that, in the wisdom of God, the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.

  35. Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

  36. Why, therefore, except through foolishness and miserable error, shouldst thou humble thyself to worship a being to whom thou desirest to be unlike in thy life?

  37. He had known her several years in the minute and a half since noon, and it was time this foolishness came to an end.

  38. Ef you ma'y a widdy, she got some er de foolishness knock' outen her befo' you hatter tek her in han'.

  39. It was no clarion ring that summoned the youths from the forest, for the times were early and a settlement might be proud to possess a school, without going to the extremity of such foolishness as a bell, and Number Nine was not extravagant.

  40. I will not be caring; let them have their childish foolishness if it will be doing them any good, whatever!

  41. Brown, actually became an exposure of the petty tyranny and foolishness of Buren R.


  42. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "foolishness" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    absurdity; buffoonery; devilment; devilry; eccentricity; emptiness; fatuity; folly; foolery; foolishness; frivolity; futility; idiocy; idleness; ignorance; imbecility; inanity; incapacity; indiscretion; ineptitude; insanity; irrationality; levity; lightness; lunacy; madness; mischief; nonsense; oblivion; passivity; playfulness; prattle; quietism; roguery; shallowness; stupidity; superficiality; thoughtlessness; tranquillity; triviality; vacancy; vanity; volatility; waggery