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
• Part of that rebuttal is a near-desperate attempt to paint variety as dangerous and inclusion as foolishness.
  — Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug. 2024
• Still, for Harris and Walz, the comic frame seems to leave enough political elbow room for those who usually don’t vote Democrat to discover the foolishness of supporting the Republican presidential ticket.
  — Richard Cherwitz, Hartford Courant, 13 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024