How to Use "headlong" with Example Sentences

1. Flush from their mid-term victory , they have flung themselves headlong into the guillotine of fiscal austerity .
2. But when he saw them plunge headlong into activity , he laughed aloud and said , " that isn 't action . That 's motion " .
3. In britain the clamour for higher education is such that almost half of young people now enroll , and the prospect of having to pay more for the privilege from 2012 is provoking a headlong dash for the ivory towers .
4. The country 's three largest banks have expanded headlong abroad since two of them were privatised in 2003 , amassing assets of about 125 billion ( $ 180 billion ) by the end of 2007 , compared with an economy of just 14.5 billion .
5. So perhaps by the time the kids of today 's shenzhen grow up there will be a change in the current attitude toward headlong growth .

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