How to Use folly in a Sentence

folly

noun

• The folly of such an action should be apparent to everyone.
• The idea seems like folly in part because of the scope of the idea.
  — Matthew Herper, STAT, 2 Mar. 2020
• To give up the fight now, to let my guard down, seems like folly.
  — Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2022
• Around the league, the move was viewed as nothing short of folly.
  — Vince Guerrieri, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Mar. 2023
• The whole pageant model of virtue comes to seem like folly, and Kai is too smart to miss it.
  — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 19 June 2020
• The court recognized the folly of New York’s claim and dismissed the case.
  — Ed Hirs, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2024
• That is the problem, or one of them, with the mere idea of the Qatar World Cup: the majesty intertwined with the folly.
  — Sarah Lyall, New York Times, 8 Dec. 2022
• The Debt Bomb Bad times also focus the mind on follies.
  — Trefis Team, Forbes, 17 Sep. 2024
• There’s a scene outside in a stone folly, and there are two wet actors, in the middle of the night.
  — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 5 Jan. 2021
• The folly of this wasn’t the only thing Adolph discovered.
  — Richard A. Lovett, Outside Online, 10 Aug. 2020
• Except the scrappy kids of the Losers’ Club have now grown past the Stranger Things follies of their ‘80s youth and become grown adults.
  — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 3 Sep. 2019
• Why lie about it when, inevitably, his folly was found out?
  — Rosa Prince, CNN, 7 July 2022
• In the end, Güero — half-labrador, half-boxer, full-bodied goof — would pay for that folly.
  — Elaine Ayala, ExpressNews.com, 10 Sep. 2019
• What counts as eccentric in the garden, and what counts as a folly?
  — James Fenton, The New York Review of Books, 16 Mar. 2023
• The two are shut off from the wider community by their folly.
  — Tim Parks, The New York Review of Books, 23 Feb. 2021
• All this shows the folly of trying to figure out when stocks have hit bottom.
  — Jason Zweig, WSJ, 8 July 2022
• And like all workplace novels, The Factory points out the folly of how so many of us spend our days.
  — Rumaan Alam, The New Republic, 2 Dec. 2019
• What sounds like folly is probably the savviest thing Masayoshi Son and his team could do right now.
  — Tim Culpan | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 26 Sep. 2019
• Over 10 days in the African wilderness, Woods and others like her had shown me the folly of my resistance to ecotourism.
  — Tayari Jones, Travel + Leisure, 26 July 2023
• Here are five things to know about Prince Aemond's finale folly.
  — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 25 Oct. 2022
• But even some moderate Democrats see the folly in that thinking.
  — Sam Adler-Bell, The New Republic, 15 Nov. 2020
• At least All About Eve helped us to see that showbiz folly was based in private neuroses.
  — Armond White, National Review, 29 Mar. 2024
• The classic folly is the hunter who tries to catch up to caribou headed in the other direction.
  — Tyler Freel, Outdoor Life, 12 June 2020
• Had Musk reached out to Nürburgring veteran Lars Kern, he might have been warned of the folly.
  — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 26 June 2021
• Uday Rao holds up the Indonesian island of Bali as proof that plein-air incense isn’t a folly.
  — Catherine Dash, WSJ, 31 Mar. 2021
• History confirms the folly of trying to play whack-a-mole.
  — Marvin D. Seppala, STAT, 30 Mar. 2021
• To gin up enough folly, Sharrock has to make nearly everyone in the movie … kind of an idiot.
  — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 1 May 2021
• But more than a silly fashion folly, the coat is a distraction.
  — Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2019
• Four setbacks in the Astros' first six games out of the All-Star break featured frustrating follies.
  — Chandler Rome, Houston Chronicle, 18 July 2019
• Here, expensive red wine (Syrah) is king and the steep, terraced terrain plays folly to the unprepared or over-served.
  — Johnny Noakes, Hartford Courant, 14 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024