HEEDLESS in a Sentence

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31 example sentences for HEEDLESS, such as:

1. They were heedless of his appeals.
2. She was rather heedless than forgetful.
3. They are as heedless and as indolent as cats.
4. Oh, you think and talk like a heedless child.
5. He drove on, heedless of the danger warnings placed at the side of the road.

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 Meanings and Examples of HEEDLESS
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
heedless
 a.  unaware, without noticing; unmindful or thoughtless
Classic Sentence: (30 in 3 pages)
1  Not to conceal anything, the three first were more experienced, more heedless, and more emancipated into the tumult of life than Fantine the Blonde, who was still in her first illusions.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—A DOUBLE QUARTETTE
2  They are as heedless and as indolent as cats.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—AT BOMBARDA'S
3  He thinks himself heedless; and he is not.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—HE MAY BE OF USE
4  These lamentable tribes of darkness have no longer merely the desperate audacity of actions, they possess the heedless audacity of mind.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—SLANG WHICH WEEPS AND SLANG WHICH LAUGHS
5  It seemed as though words failed that creature formerly so heedless and so bold.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—THE BEGINNING OF SHADOW
6  The busy and heedless passer-by disappeared.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER V—ORIGINALITY OF PARIS
7  She was rather heedless than forgetful.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER I—PITY FOR THE UNHAPPY, BUT INDULGENCE FOR THE HA...
8  He kept on his way at the same rate, heedless about upsetting those whom he met on the road.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 21 THE COUNTESS DE WINTER
9  "Yes, yes, round the Cape of Good Hope is the shortest way to Nantucket," soliloquized Starbuck suddenly, heedless of Stubb's question.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 119. The Candles.
10  Meantime, heedless of all these things, the men upon the floor were going about their work.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
11  They were heedless of his appeals.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12
12  The youth, after rushing about and throwing interrogations at the heedless bands of retreating infantry, finally clutched a man by the arm.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12
13  There was the delirium that encounters despair and death, and is heedless and blind to the odds.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
14  Oh, you think and talk like a heedless child.
A Doll's House By Henrik Ibsen
Context  Highlight   In ACT III
15  There you lay in the whirling clouds of dust, all huge and hugely, heedless now of your chivalry.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK XXIV
Example Sentence:
1  He drove on, heedless of the danger warnings placed at the side of the road.