How to Use reckless in a Sentence

reckless

adjective
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  • He is a wild and reckless young man.
  • He showed a reckless disregard for the safety of others.
  • He spends money with reckless abandon.
  • And the right choice is to stop these reckless attacks.
    — CBS News, 14 Jan. 2024
  • See, that's the kind of reckless spending that gets you on the radar of Congressperson Nitpick, Coop.
    — Tanya Melendez, EW.com, 9 June 2023
  • Both also were charged as adults with four counts of reckless murder.
    — Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 21 Apr. 2023
  • This reckless ménage à trois turns all three of their lives upside down.
    — Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 6 Aug. 2023
  • Some of the cutting may be reckless; there’s the occasional WTF?
    — Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 14 Oct. 2023
  • No wild emotional swings like the one that fueled the reckless nights after Sarge died.
    — Ryan D'agostino, Men's Health, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Brown, as Monk’s brother, is on a reckless journey to find truth and acceptance as a gay man.
    — Ken Makin, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Mar. 2024
  • There’s a lot out there that portrays them as this reckless death cult that are just adrenaline junkies.
    — Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Mar. 2024
  • The scheme to control people’s economies through reckless climate policies must come to an end.
    — Gillian Brassil, Sacramento Bee, 5 Feb. 2024
  • The eight dissidents claim to have acted to stop reckless spending.
    — John Shadegg, WSJ, 23 Oct. 2023
  • He was also charged with four counts of reckless murder, state police said.
    — Jamie Morrison, NBC News, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Rather, the intrigue here lies in the fact that Grande—at least the Grande that projects herself in her songs—comes off as knowingly fickle, even reckless.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 13 Mar. 2024
  • The line was no mere deep cut, and wasn’t spouted by a reckless twentysomething seeking shock value.
    — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 25 May 2023
  • Moreno was charged with first-degree reckless homicide, party to a crime, but managed to evade arrest for more than a year.
    — Chris Ramirez, Journal Sentinel, 23 June 2023
  • Allen tried to play hero ball, forced several reckless throws, and threw three interceptions in a 22-16 overtime loss to the Jets.
    — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Sep. 2023
  • Joy, with touching if reckless kindness, allows Savannah to stay on, and on, and on.
    — Tom Gliatto, Peoplemag, 13 Mar. 2024
  • The potential of deepfakes as a kind of reckless pornographic weapon is already in full swing.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 24 Oct. 2023
  • Scooter start-ups and riders did a lot of reckless stuff, but the widespread mocking of scooters may have been less fact than feelings.
    — Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2023
  • Voris now faces 11 counts of neglect of dependents and six counts of reckless supervision by a child care provider.
    — Elana Spivack, Scientific American, 5 May 2023
  • The 6-year-old’s mother, Deja Taylor, was charged with felony child neglect and a misdemeanor count of reckless storage of a firearm.
    — Ben Finley, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Aug. 2023
  • He was charged with a felony count of reckless endangerment, though the charge was later reduced to a misdemeanor.
    — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 15 Dec. 2023
  • When that guy gets out, the reckless driver plows ahead, killing the stranger and leaving his daughter in critical condition.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Beyoncé knows better than to be reckless in a Givenchy dress and uses the stage to lift her businesses.
    — Rachel Lerman, Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2023
  • The cynics, trolls and haters should refrain from their reckless speculation.
    — Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2024
  • Sadly, General Hayden is just the latest in a long line of Washington Leftists who have engaged in reckless rhetoric against me over the past few months.
    — Brady Knox, Washington Examiner, 10 Oct. 2023
  • Even if lethal autonomous weapons are banned, reckless use of AI could cause military systems to fail.
    — WIRED, 13 Nov. 2023
  • On the flip side, these Saturn activations also happen to be times in which people pay the consequences of reckless acts.
    — Narayana Montúfar, Women's Health, 11 Aug. 2023

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