Headlong has 2 syllables and the stress is on the first syllable.
| # | Sentence | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | You immediately rushed headlong into it! | |
| 2. | Mugabe's regime did not so much slide as plunge headlong into kleptocracy. | |
| 3. | When a thunderstorm suddenly came out of the blue, she jumped abruptly out of the hammock and ran headlong into the house where she stopped short, remembering suddenly that she had no lightning rod, and because she realized at once that this sudden onrush of a thunderstorm could end her life before she could say Jack Robinson, she became sore afraid. | |
| 4. | The car went out of control and pitched headlong into the river. | |
| 5. | Today the civilized world is opening its borders for the sake of international cooperation, and only Russia is "subjugating" new lands and peoples. The largest country in the world is rushing headlong into the Middle Ages. | |
| 6. | Like as a fire, when Southern gusts are rude, / falls on the standing harvest of the plain, / or torrent, hurtling with a mountain flood, / whelms field and oxens' toil and smiling grain, / and rolls whole forests headlong to the main, / while, weetless of the noise, on neighbouring height, / tranced in mute wonder, stands the listening swain. | |
| 7. | I look around for comrades; none are near. / Some o'er the battlements leapt headlong, some / sank fainting in the flames; the final hour was come. | |
| 8. | Do you suppose me so foolish, that I cannot walk by a young lady's side without plunging headlong in love with her? | |
| 9. | In this ungrateful world, folichons rush headlong, while sane people walk backwards. |