How to Use heedless in a Sentence

heedless

adjective

• They remain heedless of their own safety.
• But what if just the opposite of this heedless obituary for the avant-garde is true?
  — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2024
• This is one of those cases in which the GOP is heedless to public sentiment.
  — Steve Chapman, chicagotribune.com, 18 Oct. 2019
• But this change is coming from Donald Trump, who seems heedless of his own party.
  — James K. Glassman, National Review, 15 Oct. 2020
• Of course, some heedless drivers ignore the etiquette and barrel through first.
  — Peter Saenger, WSJ, 30 Oct. 2018
• The actor’s work with the Coen brothers had honed his gifts for heedless confidence and rapid banter, both of which Foxy has in spades.
  — Joe Reid, Vulture, 26 June 2023
• Springtime is the right time to daydream, but with the Sun moving into heedless Aries by the end of the week, a dash of pragmatism can keep a good trip from going off the rails.
  — Gala Mukomolova, refinery29.com, 14 Mar. 2021
• Much the same way a seasoned ship captain like Edward Smith can become the face of heedless seamanship.
  — Eric D. Lawrence, Detroit Free Press, 30 July 2019
• In that way, yeah, Beatriz can be a little annoying, heedless of the temperature of the room.
  — Richard Lawson, VanityFair.com, 24 Jan. 2017
• The heedless rush to splash the story onto the screen leads to an appalling waste of the formidable talents marshalled to depict it.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 9 Nov. 2023
• The sunburned man, however, seemed terrified, while the man with the airy smile went on smiling, heedless of danger.
  — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2018
• The pathogen, finally, is an agent without agency—a bug trying to make more bugs, heedless of motives or morals.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2024
• Bannon is astute enough to discern Trump’s desires and heedless enough to carry it out.
  — James Hohmann, Washington Post, 10 July 2017
• Back then, a heedless industry-wide race to win market share and raise returns was about to end in disaster.
  — The Economist, 25 Jan. 2018
• Sweet vermouth: Since the moment Campari was invented in 1860, it’s had a heedless love of sweet vermouth.
  — Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 23 Nov. 2022
• With the others hitting nearby, this looked heedless, like a movie colonel not flinching amid a mortar barrage.
  — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 14 June 2019
• In the central square, heedless of the explosions, on some days a drunken woman spirals and dances, arms out like a child mimicking the flight of an airplane.
  — Andrew E. Kramer Nicole Tung, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2023
• Columbus — a staid heartland city named for that avatar of heedless white male adventuring — was never the aim for either of them.
  — Laura Collins-Hughes, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2023
• Only a heedless few would reject that judgment out of hand, no matter how wounding.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2017
• The Mar-a-Lago search warrant showed that Trump has grown more rash, thoughtless, and heedless—and more unfit than ever for the Presidency.
  — David Rohde, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2022
• By now, most Americans have absorbed Vogt’s idea that heedless consumption comes at a steep price.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 27 Apr. 2018
• With a big, brassy baritone, Étienne Dupuis is the arrogant, heedless Onegin.
  — Dallas News, 2 Apr. 2022
• Just his expressionless face and the sharp clink of tiny metal—Mistuss Margery hotly poking at pieces of fish, heedless that no one else had been served.
  — David Wright Faladé, The New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2020
• The speed with which new hazards are created reflects the impetuous and heedless pace of man, rather than the deliberate pace of nature.
  — Rachel Carson, The New Yorker, 1 Jan. 1950
• Tracey — whose absent father has been in jail, and whose angry mother is an enabler of Tracey’s worst impulses — is the diva, the heedless one, who wears flashy clothes, has lots of boyfriends and takes a lot of drugs.
  — Michiko Kakutani, New York Times, 7 Nov. 2016
• This Trump crisis, as is the case with so many others, is largely self-inflicted, and involves the usual heedless scramble of denials.
  — Jeffrey Toobin, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2018
• Both fighters went out swinging in a brutal fifth round that concluded with 30 seconds of heedless swinging and slinging.
  — Greg Beacham, ajc, 23 Jan. 2022
• Power doesn’t have to corrupt, the film suggests; many come to it precorrupted, as well as ignorant, fatuous and heedless.
  — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 8 Mar. 2018
• The Venus flytraps of social media are a case in point; so is the heedless embrace of artificial intelligence.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
• Introspection, after all, is most longed for in our heedless culture.
  — Armond White, National Review, 29 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 3 Oct 2024