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How to use headfirst in a sentence

10 example sentences · adverb, adjective

Headfirst means with the head in front; headlong. Example: “Sheffield was not going to stop being Sheffield just because he had dived headfirst into the lusts of the flesh.”

Examples of headfirst by meaning

adverbRashly; precipitately; without deliberation; hastily.

  • Sheffield was not going to stop being Sheffield just because he had dived headfirst into the lusts of the flesh.2016, Kerry Greenwood, Murder and Mendelssohn, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 245
  • Over the past two years, Silicon Valley’s leaders and investors — many of whom had once forsworn involvement in weapons and war — have plunged headfirst into the military industrial complex.2025 August 4, Sheera Frenkel, “The Militarization of Silicon Valley”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company...

More sentences with headfirst

  • As I squeeze headfirst out of the sleepout, something invisible tugs at my legs.2009, Craig Silvey, Jasper Jones, Allen & Unwin, page 2. From the entry sleepout
  • With Western support, Israel is plunging headfirst into slaughter.2023 October 18, “We’re anti-Zionist Jews and we see genocide unfolding in Gaza”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry Israel
  • Therefore, I strongly suggest you eschew your beloved IDE for this chapter and dive headfirst into the realm of command-line programming.2023, Dan Gookin, “Caesarean cipher”, in Tiny C Projects, Shelter Island, N.Y.: Manning Publications Co., →ISBN, page 50. From the entry über nerd
  • Dirk slid a crackerless sardine headfirst onto his tongue.2006, Michael Scofield, Acting Badly. From the entry crackerless
  • There is no easy way to get up when you are headfirst in a galvanized trash can that weighs almost as much as you do.2016, J. T. James, Strong at the Broken Places. From the entry shit can
  • This change occurs during the first stage of parturition, and the orientation changes where 60–70 percent of the puppies are born headfirst.2013, Robert L. Ridgway, The Truth About Dog and Cat Treatments and Anomalies, page 205. From the entry tailfirst
  • Finally one of the first three breaks through the barrier, but instead of a jete, he takes an incredible headfirst dive and slides along the floor.1990 April 13, Laura Molzahn, “Priestly Perversions”, in Chicago Reader. From the entry jete
  • With a beller of wrath, I jerked my arm away from him and hung a clout on his proboscis that knocked him headfirst through the ropes.1934 August, Robert E. Howard, “Sluggers of the Beach”, in Jack Dempsey’s Fight Magazine. From the entry beller

Meaning of headfirst

  1. adverb With the head in front; headlong.
  2. adverb Rashly; precipitately; without deliberation; hastily.

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Questions about headfirst in a sentence

How do you use headfirst in a sentence?
Headfirst is used as an adverb and adjective. For example: “Sheffield was not going to stop being Sheffield just because he had dived headfirst into the lusts of the flesh.”
What is a short sentence with headfirst?
“Dirk slid a crackerless sardine headfirst onto his tongue.”
What does headfirst mean?
Headfirst means with the head in front; headlong.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: headfirst (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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