Sentence for folly | Use folly in a sentence

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• What folly! (8)
• Call it my folly. (10)
• Call it my folly. (22)
• None Commits such folly. (10)
• Did you ever hear such folly? (8)
• It was folly to invite ruin! (13)
• But it was a folly in itself. (10)
• Can you conceive a greater folly? (8)
• Now I see the folly, the baseness. (10)
• He regarded it as a species of folly. (10)
• The folly was in his speaking at all. (10)
• But vanity, not love, has been my folly. (4)
• America reaps the benefit of our folly . (10)
• You pledge your word to a piece of folly. (10)
• The old folly might rescue me from the new one. (10)
• I told him our opinion of the folly of the thing. (10)
• The folly of having retained her stood before him. (10)
• Also that Percy had been guilty of excessive folly. (10)
• Could mortal folly outstrip a petition of that sort? (10)
• I have felt at times like a snake hissing at my folly. (10)
• Does it not all suggest the folly of the Silent Bargain? (16)
• Can my nephew be rescued from the consequences of his folly? (10)
• Such folly is more frequently castigated than reasoned with. (10)
• There seemed no end to the consequences of that piece of folly. (8)
• He could have answered veraciously that she had kept him from folly. (10)
• He had now a double reason for exclaiming at the folly of Willoughby. (10)
• He had not committed the folly of writing a letter to a newspaper then. (10)
• The high road of Folly may have led him from one that terminates worse. (10)
• If we do not feign when we say that we despise Folly, we shut the brain. (10)
• It became again necessary that he should abuse Willoughby for his folly. (10)
• It was a folly that Merthyr could not understand in his friend Charlotte. (10)
• Afraid of meeting me, since she committed that piece of folly over Eustace. (8)
• His folly came to him with increased poignancy after he had parted from Noel. (8)
• I fear we all of us have our turn of folly: we throw the stake for good luck. (10)
• And who would have thought that these poor Poles should have lived to convince me of the folly! (10)
• And the next moment she was hating herself for the folly which asked the question. (4)
• He was rightly sent away, for to think of the folly Evan put into his empty head! (10)
• Fanny could not look at him, but there was no consciousness of past folly in his voice. (4)
• Now we understood the folly of despatching a donkey like Barnshed for sage and onions. (10)
• Martyrdom, then, for the sake of a faith in her that was lost already, could be but folly. (8)
• There was all the folly with that confetti stuff and the rest of it to go through with yet. (8)
• An adoring young woman is the person to imagine and induce to the commission of such folly. (10)
• Basil spent five minutes in arraigning his wife and convicting her of every folly and fault. (9)
• Do you not think some good man could convince the best Americans of the folly of their cause? (18)
• And how do they hinder you and disturb you, even granting their ugliness and folly and futility? (12)
• Like every one else, La Salle, on learning the evil news, saw the folly and danger of the change. (19)
• Her folly, which now seemed even criminal, was all exposed to him, and he must despise her forever. (4)
• The course of folly must be bravely taken, if taken at all: Disguise degraded her to the reptiles. (10)
• A sentence that hung in the memory of one knowing himself to be animated by the wildest genius of folly. (10)
• Her folly, her insincerity, her vulgarity, had nothing to do with the affair, so far as he was concerned. (9)
• Edward Buxley was simply caught in a trap: He had the folly to imagine that by laughing he released himself. (10)
• And with the feeling that to waste this swift-travelling commodity was unforgivable folly, he took up his brush. (8)
• To his wife he was very little otherwise indebted, than as her ignorance and folly had contributed to his amusement. (4)
• As the poet declareth in his scorn: Some doubt Eternity: from life begun, Has folly ceased within them, sire to son? (10)
• Night has little mercy for the self-reproachful, and for a strong man denouncing the folly of his error, it has none. (10)
• Now, without having committed any piece of public folly, he was made a thing of pity and contempt before his friends! (13)
• Could it have been that she was guilty of the immense folly, simply to escape from that piece of coarse earth, Mrs. Chump? (10)
• Was it his humour to conspire to hand Miss Halkett to Cecil, and then to show Nevil the prize he had forfeited by his folly? (10)
• Having obtained this prize we were determined to manage it with eoconomy and not to spend it either with folly or Extravagance. (4)
• While at his work, he thought of Harry Latters and Lord Suckling, and the folly of his dining with men in his present position. (10)
• The question for me to consider is, whether this development is to be accomplished by my being guilty of an act of egregious folly. (10)
• His efforts of entertainment occupied the sole attention of the audience at times, as with voice or action he provided fun and folly. (21)
• Clemens was victorious on the platform from the beginning, and it would be folly to pretend that he did not exult in his triumphs there. (9)
• Comedy, or the Comic element, is the specific for the poison of delusion while Folly is passing from the state of vapour to substantial form. (10)
• Elizabeth received her congratulations amongst the rest, and then, sick of this folly, took refuge in her own room, that she might think with freedom. (4)
• There is a disdainful attitude in the presence of Folly, partaking of the foolishness to Comic perception: and anger is not much less foolish than disdain. (10)
• You see Folly perpetually sliding into new shapes in a society possessed of wealth and leisure, with many whims, many strange ailments and strange doctors. (10)

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Definition of folly:

• folly, fol’i, n. silliness or weakness of mind: a foolish act: criminal weakness: (_b._) sin: a monument of folly, as a great structure left unfinished, having been begun without a reckoning of the cost. | v.i. to act with folly. (0)

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