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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Robert Bauman condemned the reckless driving that police say caused the crash.
  — Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 15 Oct. 2022
• He was also charged with four counts of reckless murder, state police said.
  — Jamie Morrison, NBC News, 20 Apr. 2023
• Rather, the intrigue here lies in the fact that Grande—at least the Grande that projects herself in her songs—comes off as knowingly fickle, even reckless.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 13 Mar. 2024
• But adding hundreds of billions of new spending is still reckless.
  — Stephen Moore, WSJ, 22 Aug. 2022
• She was arrested and charged with assault in the first degree, kidnapping in the second degree, unlawful restraint in the first degree, cruelty to persons and reckless endangerment in the first degree on March 12.
  — Escher Walcott, People.com, 15 Mar. 2025