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Example sentences for "rash"

Lexicographically close words:
rascals; rasch; rase; rased; rasgos; rashe; rashed; rasher; rashers; rashes
  1. What before seemed rash and dangerous might be safely ventured.

  2. Cotta, who was second in command, was of opinion that it would be rash and wrong to leave the camp without Caesar's orders.

  3. Upon the declaration of Texan independence in September, 1835, General Cos marched a large army into the rebellious state, determined to drive the rash intruders out of the country.

  4. Indeed, he was a very rash and impulsive young man.

  5. How rash is man on hidden harms[191] to rush!

  6. Thus at first sight rash men to women swear, When, such oaths broke, heaven grieves and sheds a tear.

  7. Drayton's sweet muse is like a sanguine dye, Able to ravish the rash gazer's eye.

  8. Should they but know thy rash presumption, They would correct it in the sharpest sort: Good Jove!

  9. Treaty with Russia is made in 1764, Frederick now, having broken with England, being extremely anxious to keep well with such a country under such a Tsarina, about whom there are to be no rash sarcasms.

  10. His hands were strengthened by the rash and high-handed behaviour of, Blasco Nuñez Vela, yet another official sent out from Spain to deal with this turbulent province.

  11. What is significant is, that the leader, Rash Behari Bose, a Bengalee, who had organised several such conspiracies, escaped.

  12. They called the measure rash and ill-advised and impracticable.

  13. This gentleman has been rash enough to remind me of an unsettled score between us, and as he is the defaulter--' 'I dispute the debt.

  14. I believe you are not as hasty, or as violent, or as rash as you seem, and I am sure you are not as impulsive in your generosity, or as headlong in your affections.

  15. These rash utterances in debate are the explosive balls that no one must use in battle; and if we only discover one in a fellow's pouch, we discredit the whole army.

  16. My sister Kate is not one to make rash confidences, and you may rely on it she has not told her.

  17. Grahame thought that while he might show a rash boldness now and then, his nerve was not very good.

  18. I'm glad you have been rash for once," Evelyn replied.

  19. You were rash in sending for Mr. Grahame," Blanca began.

  20. He was obviously the leader of the party and about to engage in some rash adventure on seas the buccaneers had sailed.

  21. The lad was not a rash fool, and his having made the venture proved his statement about the likelihood of a revolution to be correct; moreover, Gomez had other reasons for not questioning it.

  22. Reggie would never do anything rash or unconventional.

  23. If you hadn't been so rash as to go out alone, this wouldn't have happened," she remarked.

  24. But it would clearly be rash to infer that the marriages concerned were in fact void without such special intervention.

  25. If American legislation is on the average more liberal in extending the enumerated grounds of divorce, it would surely be rash to assume that it is the "sadder" on that account.

  26. The lord admiral, who had found it difficult to keep out of danger during the life of his wife, partly through his own rash ambition, and partly through the malice of his near relatives, soon fell into it after her death.

  27. They found no response to their cry, a fact which any but the most rash speculators might have been certain of.

  28. The soul of the great queen rose in all its Tudor fury, and she fetched the rash and forgetful youth a sound buffet on the ear.

  29. Surrey, with all the rash and lofty spirit of the poet, denied every charge of disloyalty or treason with the utmost vehemence, and offered to fight his accuser in his shirt.

  30. Nor is it so rash as it appears to us who are accustomed to regular and official lists of births, to charge our authorities with an error in this respect.

  31. With Bathsheba a hastened act was a rash act; but, as does not always happen, time gained was prudence insured.

  32. Some rash acts of my past life have taught me that a watched woman must have very much circumspection to retain only a very little credit, and I do want and long to be discreet in this!

  33. Still, this was but conjecture, and the whole series of actions was so idly put forth as to make it rash to assert that intention had any part in them at all.

  34. Rash words, 'tis said, and treasonous of the king.

  35. After the fate, from which your valour strove 165 In vain to rescue the rash maid, I saw her!

  36. I am a merry lad, and if at time A rash word might escape me 'gainst the court Amidst my wine--You know no harm was meant.

  37. I'm not as fond of rash speculations as you are, Mr. Beaumaroy.

  38. The peculiarity of this eruption is the suddenness with which the rash appears and disappears; the itching, the whitish or red lumps, the fact that the eruption affects any part of the body and does not run together, are also characteristic.

  39. The second stage appears in six to seven weeks after the initial sore, and is characterized by the occurrence of a copper-colored rash over the body, but not often on the face, which resembles measles considerably.

  40. The rash is accompanied by much itching, burning, or tingling, especially at night when the clothes are removed.

  41. Only one was rash enough to return to the Palace, while the others, fearing to face their lord when they had only failure to report, hid in the slums of the bazaar.

  42. But my joy was of short duration, and I now bitterly regret my rash deed.

  43. They will condemn a General as rash when he advances, or revile him as a coward when he retreats.

  44. Don Quixote in his tilt against the windmill was not so rash and reckless as the gallant fellows who prepared thus to rush on almost certain death.

  45. It was a rash presumption for the British to attack a fortified entrenchment ten feet high in some places, and ten feet thick, with detached redoubts to flank it and three thousand men behind it.

  46. He was not as rash as Hood and Cleburne sometimes were.

  47. The attack in column was up to a certain point successful, but it would be rash to infer that therefore the column was preferable.

  48. It was a rash idea at best, the object to be attained being entirely incommensurate with the cost, and doubly unfortunate, considering the character of the men on whom it would devolve to execute it.

  49. We frequently hear rash players remark, "I never dreamed it possible that we could lose the game; if I had thought so I could have easily saved it.

  50. It is probable that, in the time of Cato, the Romans had begun to extend their villas considerably, which makes him warn proprietors of land not to be rash in building.

  51. His great object was to restore the purity of the text, which he believed to have been greatly corrupted by the rash and unauthorized alterations of preceding editors, more particularly of Cortius.

  52. If he had not made this apology for the rash judgement of his youthful days, he would not have enjoyed, in Italy at all events, that immortality which is so justly his due.


  53. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rash" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.