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How to use the word make a fool of in a Sentence?

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Insurance companies don’t have that stuff wrong. They get it right from the state, i said, ‘Before I make a fool of myself, let me look back just to makesure.’.

– Emily Vondrachek

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Vote: The instrument and symbol of a free man's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.

– Ambrose Bierce

added by Normando
2 years ago

I don't remember a day like this, i just have to laugh at today, laugh at The Briton. When you make wrong decisions or make a fool of yourself sometimes, you just have to laugh it off.

– The Briton

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!

– Robert Louis Stevenson

added by anonymous
9 years ago

It takes one woman twenty years to make a man of her son -- and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.

– Helen Rowland

added by anonymous
9 years ago

It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.

– Helen Rowland

added by anonymous
12 years ago

The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself.

– Pauline Kael

added by anonymous
12 years ago

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

– Charlie Chaplin

added by anonymous
12 years ago

When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.

– Cynthia Heimel

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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    directed outward; marked by interest in others or concerned with external reality
    • A. extroversive
    • B. articulate
    • C. soft-witted
    • D. occlusive