How to Use foolish in a Sentence

foolish

adjective

• Those flashy clothes make her look foolish.
• He was wearing a foolish grin.
• I never thought you'd be foolish enough to believe him.
• She must feel foolish wearing those flashy clothes.
• She's been taking foolish risks.
• The duke was young and foolish, and no great threat to Napoleon.
  — Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 3 Mar. 2022
• Some of us would have used a stronger word than foolish.
  — Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2024
• To the naked eye, running home would have seemed foolish.
  — Joe Hill, oregonlive, 3 June 2023
• All that said, Newsom would be foolish to kiss off the threat.
  — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 28 Dec. 2020
• Putting the New York Yankees and the Mets in the same division is foolish.
  — Steve Silverman, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2023
• Maybe the Bills are the foolish ones, spending $300 million on a team that still has flaws.
  — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 19 July 2023
• Maybe the answer is yes, which feels like a foolish choice on their part.
  — R. Eric Thomas, The Mercury News, 26 July 2024
• The Bible says that natural man thinks the things of the spirit are foolish.
  — The Rev. Mike Taylor, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 19 Mar. 2021
• The Sox also made a foolish mistake in the third inning.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 4 June 2023
• One said that the company would have been foolish not to do so.
  — Aaron C. Davis, Rick Noack and Douglas MacMillan, Anchorage Daily News, 10 July 2022
• The most foolish thing the team can do now is chase short-term success at the expense of the future.
  — Rahat Huq, Chron, 10 Aug. 2021
• Bill is back on top of his game, and those who doubted him look foolish.
  — Dan Shaughnessy, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Nov. 2021
• His anger at the Big 12 has always been misplaced and foolish.
  — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 26 Aug. 2022
• The ones who are foolish enough to post about their lives on social media.
  — WSJ, 19 Oct. 2021
• Even tyrants would be foolish to pass down an iron law when a low-key change of norms would lead to the same results.
  — Justin E. H. Smith, Harper’s Magazine , 25 May 2022
• Green Bay would be foolish to allow that same movie to have a sequel.
  — Rob Reischel, Forbes, 23 May 2021
• That four-hour car ride on the final leg of your trip, then, was both a foolish and fitting thing to do.
  — Anne Lagamayo, Longreads, 11 May 2023
• The wise and good chose Pokémon Go, while the foolish and furious chose what came to be called QAnon.
  — Virginia Heffernan, Wired, 22 Sep. 2020
• Not that Kawhi will say much at all, but any idea of anger from Toronto fans is foolish.
  — Michael Shapiro, SI.com, 13 Aug. 2019
• Men who talked with baby dolls might have been called foolish, but not now.
  — Beth Thames | [e-mail], al, 23 June 2021
• Oh, by the way, the club would be foolish to sign him to a long-term deal that averages more than $40 million.
  — David Moore, Dallas News, 29 Sep. 2020
• The long drive convinced me that the restaurant shutdown was foolish.
  — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 26 Nov. 2020
• God always uses the foolish things to conform the wise.
  — Adam Baum, Cincinnati.com, 1 Feb. 2020
• If he can be had for under $10 million a year, the Yankees would be foolish to not pursue that idea.
  — Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 6 Dec. 2024
• Surely, his phone’s location can be tracked, and taking it to her house, which is still not secure, seems foolish at best.
  — Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 5 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 10 Jan 2025