How to Use folly in a Sentence
folly
noun
- The folly of such an action should be apparent to everyone.
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The idea seems like folly in part because of the scope of the idea.
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Matthew Herper,
STAT,
2 Mar. 2020
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To give up the fight now, to let my guard down, seems like folly.
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Jessica Gelt,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Jan. 2022
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Around the league, the move was viewed as nothing short of folly.
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Vince Guerrieri,
Smithsonian Magazine,
30 Mar. 2023
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The Astros, once down 8-1, tied the game in the ninth inning on the Twins’ folly.
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Chandler Rome,
Houston Chronicle,
11 Apr. 2018
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Prometheus is not so much a film about the terror of aliens, but about the folly of man.
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David Sims,
The Atlantic,
18 May 2017
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The whole pageant model of virtue comes to seem like folly, and Kai is too smart to miss it.
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Josephine Livingstone,
The New Republic,
19 June 2020
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The court recognized the folly of New York’s claim and dismissed the case.
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Ed Hirs,
Forbes,
23 Feb. 2024
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That is the problem, or one of them, with the mere idea of the Qatar World Cup: the majesty intertwined with the folly.
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Sarah Lyall,
New York Times,
8 Dec. 2022
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And then there are measures that make ATM thefts a folly.
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Howard Cohen,
miamiherald,
4 June 2019
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The Debt Bomb Bad times also focus the mind on follies.
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Trefis Team,
Forbes,
17 Sep. 2024
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There’s a scene outside in a stone folly, and there are two wet actors, in the middle of the night.
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Kathryn Vanarendonk,
Vulture,
5 Jan. 2021
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Magic fans should know the folly of making a move like this.
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Josh Robbins,
OrlandoSentinel.com,
27 June 2018
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The folly of counting Xavier out for those reasons should be plain.
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Chris Johnson,
SI.com,
11 Mar. 2018
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Just steps from the swimming pool, the folly also houses a full bar and bath.
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Steven Stolman,
Town & Country,
26 May 2017
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The folly of this wasn’t the only thing Adolph discovered.
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Richard A. Lovett,
Outside Online,
10 Aug. 2020
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Except the scrappy kids of the Losers’ Club have now grown past the Stranger Things follies of their ‘80s youth and become grown adults.
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Leah Greenblatt,
EW.com,
3 Sep. 2019
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Why lie about it when, inevitably, his folly was found out?
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Rosa Prince,
CNN,
7 July 2022
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In the end, Güero — half-labrador, half-boxer, full-bodied goof — would pay for that folly.
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Elaine Ayala,
ExpressNews.com,
10 Sep. 2019
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What counts as eccentric in the garden, and what counts as a folly?
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James Fenton,
The New York Review of Books,
16 Mar. 2023
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The Pirates were not done with their fifth-inning follies.
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Seth Berkman,
New York Times,
3 June 2017
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The new Aladdin is hardly the folly that the advance bad buzz prepared us for.
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Joey Nolfi,
EW.com,
5 July 2019
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The two are shut off from the wider community by their folly.
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Tim Parks,
The New York Review of Books,
23 Feb. 2021
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And only with time, once the man behind the plan died and the food disappeared from the shelves, has the folly of the approach been exposed.
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Uri Friedman,
The Atlantic,
4 June 2017
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In King Lear, recall, there is reason in the king’s madness, and wisdom in the fool’s folly.
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Josephine Livingstone,
New Republic,
30 Jan. 2018
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All this shows the folly of trying to figure out when stocks have hit bottom.
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Jason Zweig,
WSJ,
8 July 2022
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His body was writ over with his daring and folly, a testament to the fragility and strength of flesh and bone.
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Alice Driver,
Longreads,
20 Mar. 2018
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Trying to accuse us of killing the seals is utter folly.
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Amanda Erickson,
Washington Post,
13 May 2018
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But there’s also a little bit of hubris and folly in these articles.
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Rob Wieland,
Forbes,
8 Jan. 2025
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The gnome incarnates its human creator’s desires and dreams as well as Wallace’s follies.
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Manohla Dargis,
New York Times,
2 Jan. 2025
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