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Example sentences for "recklessly"

Lexicographically close words:
reckernized; reckin; recking; recklect; reckless; recklessness; reckly; reckon; reckoned; reckoner
  1. He feared that he was laying up trouble for himself, but he recklessly determined to make the most of the present, and, in spite of his misgivings, the next eight or nine days brought him many delightful hours.

  2. Then Dick Blake was recklessly generous and loved his cousin; it would be consistent with his character if he were willing to suffer in Bertram's stead.

  3. There remained the Spanish infantry, and Enghien, recklessly courageous as he was, hesitated to attack the solid formation that had hitherto proved invincible.

  4. The excited little girls pranced so recklessly on the edge of the bank that a lot more of it crumbled and rolled to the beach, a youngster or two with it.

  5. In another moment all five were hurling themselves recklessly about the sunny clearing, wherever a grasshopper jumped.

  6. Bettie, who spent much time lying on her stomach on the beach with her heels in the air, since she was not permitted to use them recklessly for walking purposes.

  7. Mabel, anxious to obtain a closer view of the boat's cargo, as Captain Berry dropped anchor, rushed recklessly toward the end of the long, prostrate pine.

  8. This house was surrounded by a large fruit-garden, and the produce was continually stolen and recklessly wasted; for which, however, there appears to have been no remedy.

  9. A minute or two later the galloping horse pounded under the gateway and clattered recklessly up the paved street.

  10. He was not surprised when Charles, without a word, crossed the floor in a couple of bounds, flung himself recklessly over the sill of the window, clung an instant by one hand, then disappeared.

  11. Well aware of the world's opinion, she would not recklessly defy it, and precipitate herself into an abyss of degradation and shame unless some overruling influence had urged her forward.

  12. He seems to have recklessly defied all consequences, to have been entirely callous to any sense of shame, and, when detected in his adulterous intercourse, he adds desertion to his offense.

  13. And the other vision is of her in the country in the midst of a summer day, under a summer sky, swinging high and recklessly in a barrel-stave hammock.

  14. Then the noise alarmed his mother, And his father came and asked him, "Recklessly the sledge was broken; Did you break the shafts on purpose?

  15. Like so many other states, Connecticut has recklessly wasted her wild-life inheritance.

  16. The price of a black fox is one of the wonders of a recklessly extravagant and whimsical age.

  17. Flaxman replied recklessly that any decent fellow in the neighbourhood was welcome to shoot his birds--a reply which almost brought upon him the resignation of the outraged keeper by return of post.

  18. But these few, when they once get weapons into their hands, trample recklessly and mercilessly upon the rest.

  19. He, however, braved all the difficulty and dangers, and recklessly persisted in the course he had taken, under the influence of the infatuation in which his attachment to Cleopatra held him, as by a spell.

  20. I tried the water's depth; on all sides I sounded it, wading recklessly in; everywhere it deepened rapidly as I advanced.

  21. These demonstrations brought the whole drove of peccaries to the spot, and in a moment a circle of them had formed around the reptile, that did not know which to strike at, but kept launching out its head recklessly in all directions.

  22. Nowhere else in the world will one see women of all classes gambling openly and heavily; nowhere else are the alpha and omega of feminine folly so sharply and obviously contrasted--and so gaily and recklessly ignored.

  23. Skidding recklessly down hill is, figuratively speaking, the metier of so many of the throng that haunts the Casino and fills the great hotels.

  24. In that matter of furs, our American women have become recklessly lavish.

  25. It is probable, highly probable, that the foreigner who recklessly remains in Paris and invites the spirit of the place will show her inevitable lapse from Puritanical grace first in her underwear.

  26. You know how recklessly I've waded into this thing--how recklessly we've all gone into it for that matter.

  27. They adopted this method recklessly at first, crushing out all competitors and then raising the price unduly.

  28. I myself have given him information on the subject, and the Socialist gentleman himself does not pretend to make any secret of the course he is pursuing; he recklessly admits the stand that he has taken.

  29. You are candid, anyhow," mocked Landsfeld, "and recklessly show us what a rod we have pickled for ourselves in your election.

  30. Reform waves merely serve the purpose of making some poor devil conspicuous and recklessly optimistic, then subside and leave him high and dry--at the mercy of the ever-recuperating machine.

  31. Possibly with a presentiment that it was to be an isolated experience, she abandoned herself recklessly to the mere delight of living, her will imperious for the fulness of one of the dearest of girlhood's ideals.

  32. XXXIX They reached home sooner than might have been expected, but there were many fares below, and the hackman galloped down the hill as recklessly as if a slip would not have been the death of himself and his valiant beasts.

  33. Garrick had no scruple in presenting plays of Shakespeare in versions that he or his friends had recklessly garbled.

  34. Shakespeare was never on terms of intimacy (although the contrary has often been recklessly assumed) with William, third Earl of Pembroke, when a youth.

  35. But one thing was certain--they would not trail Andrew Lanning recklessly in the night, not even with the moon to help them.

  36. So they waved their hats recklessly and continued to ride to be in at the death.

  37. You're recklessly transgressing the lesson set forth in the parable of the Talents.


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