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 Astros, once down 8-1, tied the game in the ninth inning on the Twins’ folly.
  — Chandler Rome, Houston Chronicle, 11 Apr. 2018
• 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
• And then there are measures that make ATM thefts a folly.
  — Howard Cohen, miamiherald, 4 June 2019
• 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
• Magic fans should know the folly of making a move like this.
  — Josh Robbins, OrlandoSentinel.com, 27 June 2018
• 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 new Aladdin is hardly the folly that the advance bad buzz prepared us for.
  — Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 5 July 2019
• 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
• His body was writ over with his daring and folly, a testament to the fragility and strength of flesh and bone.
  — Alice Driver, Longreads, 20 Mar. 2018
• Trying to accuse us of killing the seals is utter folly.
  — Amanda Erickson, Washington Post, 13 May 2018
• 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
• The traumatic folly of the Bar-Lev line was Israel’s version of the Maginot.
  — The Economist, 28 June 2019
• Realizing his folly, Keuchel put his hands on his knees and, for a second, stared to the ground.
  — Chandler Rome, Houston Chronicle, 10 Apr. 2018
• 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
• This is exactly why Democrats on Sept. 30 filed a lawsuit to block this potential folly.
  — Philip Elliott, TIME, 9 Oct. 2024
• In the oldest and most historical of the series’ timelines, Disclaimer is about the knife’s edge between youthful folly and deadly tragedy.
  — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 11 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 28 Dec 2024