How to Use folly in a Sentence

folly

noun
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  • The folly of such an action should be apparent to everyone.
  • The idea seems like folly in part because of the scope of the idea.
    — Matthew Herper, STAT, 2 Mar. 2020
  • To give up the fight now, to let my guard down, seems like folly.
    — Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2022
  • Around the league, the move was viewed as nothing short of folly.
    — Vince Guerrieri, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Mar. 2023
  • The whole pageant model of virtue comes to seem like folly, and Kai is too smart to miss it.
    — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 19 June 2020
  • The court recognized the folly of New York’s claim and dismissed the case.
    — Ed Hirs, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2024
  • That is the problem, or one of them, with the mere idea of the Qatar World Cup: the majesty intertwined with the folly.
    — Sarah Lyall, New York Times, 8 Dec. 2022
  • And then there are measures that make ATM thefts a folly.
    — Howard Cohen, miamiherald, 4 June 2019
  • The Debt Bomb Bad times also focus the mind on follies.
    — Trefis Team, Forbes, 17 Sep. 2024
  • There’s a scene outside in a stone folly, and there are two wet actors, in the middle of the night.
    — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 5 Jan. 2021
  • The folly of this wasn’t the only thing Adolph discovered.
    — Richard A. Lovett, Outside Online, 10 Aug. 2020
  • Except the scrappy kids of the Losers’ Club have now grown past the Stranger Things follies of their ‘80s youth and become grown adults.
    — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Why lie about it when, inevitably, his folly was found out?
    — Rosa Prince, CNN, 7 July 2022
  • In the end, Güero — half-labrador, half-boxer, full-bodied goof — would pay for that folly.
    — Elaine Ayala, ExpressNews.com, 10 Sep. 2019
  • What counts as eccentric in the garden, and what counts as a folly?
    — James Fenton, The New York Review of Books, 16 Mar. 2023
  • The new Aladdin is hardly the folly that the advance bad buzz prepared us for.
    — Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 5 July 2019
  • The two are shut off from the wider community by their folly.
    — Tim Parks, The New York Review of Books, 23 Feb. 2021
  • All this shows the folly of trying to figure out when stocks have hit bottom.
    — Jason Zweig, WSJ, 8 July 2022
  • And like all workplace novels, The Factory points out the folly of how so many of us spend our days.
    — Rumaan Alam, The New Republic, 2 Dec. 2019
  • The traumatic folly of the Bar-Lev line was Israel’s version of the Maginot.
    — The Economist, 28 June 2019
  • What sounds like folly is probably the savviest thing Masayoshi Son and his team could do right now.
    — Tim Culpan | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 26 Sep. 2019
  • Over 10 days in the African wilderness, Woods and others like her had shown me the folly of my resistance to ecotourism.
    — Tayari Jones, Travel + Leisure, 26 July 2023
  • Here are five things to know about Prince Aemond's finale folly.
    — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 25 Oct. 2022
  • Same idea, but my response to the folly that best-of-five should be paid differently than best-of-three?
    — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 3 July 2019
  • But even some moderate Democrats see the folly in that thinking.
    — Sam Adler-Bell, The New Republic, 15 Nov. 2020
  • Perhaps this is just a kind of youthful folly that Kashuv has now outgrown.
    — Christine Emba, The Denver Post, 20 June 2019
  • At least All About Eve helped us to see that showbiz folly was based in private neuroses.
    — Armond White, National Review, 29 Mar. 2024
  • The classic folly is the hunter who tries to catch up to caribou headed in the other direction.
    — Tyler Freel, Outdoor Life, 12 June 2020
  • Had Musk reached out to Nürburgring veteran Lars Kern, he might have been warned of the folly.
    — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 26 June 2021
  • Here, expensive red wine (Syrah) is king and the steep, terraced terrain plays folly to the unprepared or over-served.
    — Johnny Noakes, Hartford Courant, 14 Apr. 2024

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