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How to use folly in a sentence

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The residents of Tortuga put up with a lot, but it was sheer folly to fly the colors in a town.
The mother realises her folly and wants the in-laws to stay with them forever!
My ash bower is a kind of folly, an Aboriginal wiltja that stands at the top of my long meadow in Suffolk.
You sometimes have to answer a woman according to her womanishness, just as you have to answer a fool according to his folly.
Let him be a lesson of the perilous folly of incuriousness, and the value of speaking truth to power.
To kill a swan is still considered the height of folly and many used to believe that swans were in fact the reincarnation of human souls!
And by their clinging to the anchor of a sinking ship for security, they drown in their own folly.
Authors of burlesque usually avoided the high ethical road of the satirist, who ridicules a folly or fashion in the hope of eradicating it.
The colossal irony is that a madman who rescued her from her folly was the same madman who later killed her.
Apparently realizing the folly of her ways, she declined to press charges, saying it was her fault for teasing the hungry elephant.
My folly was in thinking that the problem was that I was not getting the paper positioned properly under the paper bail.
The liberation theologists have written extensively about the folly of the oppressed using the tactics of their oppressors.
To teach our young people in a school like that, to be reared like battery hens, would be folly.
Three of these plays were usually tragedies, plays that focused on a heroic character who falls due to his own folly.
But prosecutors are not perfectly wise, and it is folly to trust them with so much power.
I can be quite blokeish about cars and once, in a moment of extreme folly, bought a BMW that I couldn't afford to run.
The blowback from its failure in transport is pushing it towards an even greater folly in energy policy.
She hits the skids and sees the folly in denying her love for an unsuitably poor lawyer.
But if American politicians echo the terrorists' blood-lusting, this tragedy will have been turned to slaughterous folly.
But what is harder to condone than the folly of youth is the sight of the game's senior figures acting like petulant, paranoid brats.
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As for the necklace, I will pay for it myself, and so pay for my credulous folly.
What folly it was to venture into the world with such a guide as this desperado, Whiskerandos!
It had been folly enough while he believed that she stood ready to accept him and his wealth.
But having laughed and shamed his age out of one folly, he had the mortification of seeing it run headlong into another.
And Mr. Price said that though folly was incidental to Alfred's years, it must be checked.
Locke was now far too eminent a man to be troubled by so anile a demonstration of folly.
If the stage becomes a nursery of folly and impertinence, I shall not be afraid to animadvert upon it.
It shows how desperate, at heart, is the folly of an egotistic or anthropocentric philosophy.
To doubt what they believed could only be ascribed to arrant folly or to wickedness.
Merely to think of association football in connection with her was enough to make the folly of his conduct clear.
The King of Darfur, who was distinguished no less for his valour than for his folly, was killed.
Because that had been wicked and devilishly false, the Dean's folly was not the less.
We surmised that he found encouragement in this house, and had beforetime listened to thy childish and unreasoning folly.
A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something that he can see and feel.
Upon the whole he was not without a bodement that it would be folly to press on.
They are victims of their elders' folly, of our carelessness as to their environment.
Others are ceramic satires on the drunkard's folly or the inconstancy of women.
Who'd have thought that calm, clearheaded woman would ever have committed such a folly?
There was all the folly with that confetti stuff and the rest of it to go through with yet.
Is not simplicity, as we take it, cousin-german to folly and a quality of reproach?
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