How to Use foolishness in a Sentence

foolishness

noun

• His dad kept him on the playgrounds, kept him into sports, and away from the foolishness.
  — Cameron Wolfe, The Denver Post, 27 May 2017
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The movie has endured more as the obituary for the idealism and much of the foolishness of the Swinging ’60s.
  — Steven Gaydos, Variety, 1 July 2022
• 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
• 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
• Thought that foolishness was taken care of on April 1. ...
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 June 2019
• Oh and the Wildcat fan wasn’t even finished with his foolishness.
  — Rolando Rosa, ajc, 26 Nov. 2017
• These queries say more about the foolishness of the questioner than anything about the player.
  — Michael McCann, SI.com, 9 Mar. 2018
• Detroit, some young folks are at it again with the lead-footed foolishness.
  — Jasmin Barmore, Detroit Free Press, 6 Dec. 2022
• Word to the wise, though: New England’s islanders brook no foolishness.
  — Will Grunewald, Outside Online, 18 June 2020
• At the low end, a kind of all-you-can-eat junk food buffet of venality and waste and foolishness.
  — New York Times, 17 May 2018
• Any idiot with the patience and the budget to allow such foolishness can do it.
  — Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 8 May 2024
• 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
• 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
• Social media, of course, laughed at the Bears for their foolishness in trading up.
  — Brendan Marks, charlotteobserver, 28 Aug. 2017
• Lynn, who works quickly, had no time for such foolishness.
  — Dallas News, 14 Aug. 2020
• Those experienced in drug R&D know the foolishness of such a claim.
  — John Lamattina, Forbes, 15 June 2021
• When James returned despite the comic sans foolishness, that was the agreement: Gilbert would spend and spend and then spend some more.
  — Bud Shaw, cleveland.com, 10 Feb. 2018
• To expect everybody doing the same hours all the time, again, that’s just foolishness.
  — Shannon Liao, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2022
• Then one scene later, the film will sharply pivot to comment on the foolishness of the whole game, before just ramping the silliness back up again.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 14 June 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
• What Putin has done is a terrible foolishness and a crime against both the Russian and Ukrainian peoples.
  — Stella Kalinina, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 May 2022
• The name, Sottise, translates to foolishness or silliness in French.
  — Tirion Morris, The Arizona Republic, 10 Dec. 2021
• The grand dame of pop and R&B is all in on Twitter — sharing the love while refusing to tolerate any foolishness.
  — Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2020
• To ignore those needs now, while flush with the resources to finally address them, would be the greatest foolishness of all.
  — Roy S. Johnson | [e-mail], al, 5 Jan. 2022
• But there is also plenty of foolishness like a Brooklyn county committee race with two winning spots and three contenders who finished with 23, 17 and two votes.
  — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 28 July 2024
• The film’s loose interpretation of historical events treads perilously close to disrespect at times, if not plain foolishness.
  — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 12 July 2024

Last Updated: 18 Nov 2024