How to Use reckless in a Sentence

reckless

adjective

• He is a wild and reckless young man.
• He showed a reckless disregard for the safety of others.
• He spends money with reckless abandon.
• And the right choice is to stop these reckless attacks.
  — CBS News, 14 Jan. 2024
• The jury did not find Vaught guilty on the charge of reckless homicide.
  — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 1 Apr. 2022
• Cole’s game is a little bit more reckless but in a good way.
  — Phil Thompson, Chicago Tribune, 16 May 2024
• Flowers strain on stalks to open all out and, reckless, cast pollen to the future.
  — Marjorie Garvey, National Review, 13 Apr. 2023
• She was charged with reckless homicide in the death of Dakota Levi Stevens.
  — Landon Mion, Fox News, 10 Mar. 2025
• Simply put, there are no laws on the books that apply to this reckless act.
  — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 22 Mar. 2022
• The son, joyful and reckless, moves out at thirteen and joins the Navy at nineteen.
  — The New Yorker, 31 Oct. 2022
• See, that's the kind of reckless spending that gets you on the radar of Congressperson Nitpick, Coop.
  — Tanya Melendez, EW.com, 9 June 2023
• To most of the golf world, what MJ Daffue was about to attempt looked nothing short of reckless.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 17 June 2022
• No doubt many people running with the bulls are brave, but many are reckless.
  — Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 7 July 2022
• And that’s not the only way Russian troops appear to have been reckless.
  — Ramin Skibba, Wired, 10 Mar. 2022
• If convicted of the reckless homicide charge, Leggett faces up to 65 years in prison.
  — Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 24 Oct. 2024
• McCoy serve five years in prison on the reckless homicide charge and 15 years on the assault charge, the court filings show.
  — Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 27 Sep. 2022
• Back on the base, Roman grows more bold and reckless as his flirtation with Sergey turns to love.
  — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Apr. 2022
• Both also were charged as adults with four counts of reckless murder.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 21 Apr. 2023
• This reckless ménage à trois turns all three of their lives upside down.
  — Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 6 Aug. 2023
• Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine is reckless and evil.
  — CBS News, 25 Feb. 2022
• Some of the cutting may be reckless; there’s the occasional WTF?
  — Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 14 Oct. 2023
• No wild emotional swings like the one that fueled the reckless nights after Sarge died.
  — Ryan D'agostino, Men's Health, 22 Aug. 2023
• But…that is such a grossly reckless act that someone's likely to die.
  — Josh Yager, CBS News, 4 Oct. 2024
• Brown, as Monk’s brother, is on a reckless journey to find truth and acceptance as a gay man.
  — Ken Makin, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Mar. 2024
• There’s a lot out there that portrays them as this reckless death cult that are just adrenaline junkies.
  — Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Mar. 2024
• The scheme to control people’s economies through reckless climate policies must come to an end.
  — Gillian Brassil, Sacramento Bee, 5 Feb. 2024
• The eight dissidents claim to have acted to stop reckless spending.
  — John Shadegg, WSJ, 23 Oct. 2023
• Police stopped a truck at 6:29 p.m. April 5 for reckless driving.
  — cleveland, 7 Apr. 2022
• In 2024, Wallen also pleaded guilty to reckless endangerment for throwing a chair off the roof of a bar.
  — Kinsey Crowley, USA Today, 2 Apr. 2025
• As defamation cases continue to make headlines and courts impose steep penalties for reckless statements, the consequences of McAfee’s remarks about Cornett could extend beyond a simple legal battle.
  — Nicole Kraft, Forbes.com, 6 Apr. 2025