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Sentence Examples Recorded in 1987 and conceived on a whim, it was a source of irritation to the band themselves. She did it on a whim when the opportunity presented itself, and she died four days later. He opened the door on a whim, expecting nothing, but instead, he was faced with four sets of eyes. Do I renew those two domain names that I bought on a whim when they seemed like a good idea? Typically the new apparel has been purchased on a whim since the user is aware that the existing pant selection is starting to show its age. The Joker is either the highest or lowest card in the pack again at the whim of the person playing the card. The owners, Gregory and Celeste Shade, bought the huge, rambling house on Brookover Street more or less on a whim. As a rule, people do not leave their homes on a whim or out of adventurousness. I could travel by whim, whenever and wherever I please, with no fixed plans and no cares. The assumption that Her Excellency just spent money on a whim is just plain wrong. I suppose one of the plus sides to being single now is that if I fancy take-out I can order it on a whim. I guess we shouldn't be so surprised that Tizard leaves meetings on a whim. A player who is selected on a whim could just as easily be dropped on a whim. I don't just go flying around the country on a whim, dammit, I'm a penniless student! This one was bought on a whim one bright Sunday afternoon in 1997, from Clone Zone on Old Compton Street. Regulations seem to be introduced, on a whim or a supposition, without any thought about how they are going to be enforced. On a whim, I responded to one of them, asking whether she ever comes into Center City. It's absurd to suggest that decisions like these can be taken on a whim by the Home Secretary. Apparently on a whim, Wonka suddenly decides to reopen his doors to five children. One of my ancestors could have got really fed up with the weather in the middle of a dull March in 1700 and moved off to Wisconsin on a whim. Show More Sentences But the lesson Ken must learn from this is not to even consider spending so much of the council's money on a whim. Many old inhabitants of the kasbah still remember watching their neighbours dragged out and beheaded on the whim of a French general. The White House agenda of militarism and social reaction is not some accident, nor is it merely the whim of certain right-wing individuals. Once airborne, though, one's flight path is entirely at the whim of the wind. You however did, and as I'm twenty I no longer have to follow your every wish and whim. The state constitution permits redistricting only once every 10 years, not at the whim of the party in power. But it is run by Howard Hulford, an Anglo-American, on a whim of iron you ought to know about. They become a matter of subjective and arbitrary whim if they are cut off from collective deliberations. On kind of a whim Friday night, I made polvorones, or Mexican Wedding Cakes, for the next night's bachelorette party. On a whim I added some maraschino liqueur and a few dashes of orange bitters to the Auchentoshan, stirred the drink over ice, and sampled it. I'm beginning to think such iconic lines are in marble precisely so they won't be bent or made to yield to a scribbler's whim. In the end, it comes down to the whim of the director and the scriptwriter's secret stash. As a maverick director he often chose his players on a whim and had them work without repeated takes. Among them having the first horse whim, first Cornish beam engine and the first open cut mine in Australia. It was no longer possible merely to turn up at the door on a whim, because you felt like a giggle all of a sudden. And she should not, if she values becomingness, attempt to follow every whim of Fashion. It wasn't even the apartment we had our heart set on, it was just one I went to see last Thursday on a whim. On a whim, Jessica answers a Woman Seeking Woman ad placed by Helen, a bi-curious art gallery employee. Supermarket trolleys are well-known for their irritating tendency to veer from the straight and narrow, apparently at their own whim. I would be quite unamazed to discover it was a fake put up by Lord Byron and friends on a whim. Show More Sentences The large swimming pool on the podium roof is watched over by attendants who anticipate your every whim. And who are the cheerful white-clad staff, calling us by our first names and acquiescing to our every whim, if not surrogate parents? I bought a lovely red kettle from a shop which I walked into on a whim. I still want to leave my hair unbrushed then shave it all off on a whim. She was distraught and sad walking through a park on Long Island when she joined a drum circle on a whim. And neither he, nor his secret police squad or some lawyer from Detroit, get to change that unilaterally on a whim. After the war Doohan on a whim enrolled in a drama class in Toronto. Now there are DVDs, and I can watch my favorite shows as often as I want, without the interference of networks that see fit to change a show's time slot on a whim. But engraving is a painstaking and laborious art that requires patience, precision and lack of whim. I can nowise explain what sort of whim, prank, or perversity it was, that, after all these leave-takings, induced me to go to the pig-stye and take leave of the swine! Being at the whim of Mother Nature, there were, of course, a few disasters. My father, who had no interest in fishing himself, eventually accepted this was no passing childhood whim and one day the longed-for parcel arrived. The Cruiser pack adds anti-lock brakes, alloy wheels, a cassette player, hard spare wheel cover, power moon roof which tilts or slides according to your whim. The small town of Carrieton, originally known as Yanyarrie Whim in the Hundred of Eurelia, was a stopping place for teamsters on the copper road from Burra to Blinman. On a whim I pulled up the posters that lined the bottom of the cupboard. When I started this weblog last October, it was more or less on a whim. Petitions, including those for cures of illness, will seemingly be granted or not according to the whim of circumstance and possibly the beseecher's own subsequent actions. Short of a luge run, Blue Heron Farm has the facilities to provide for any recreational whim. The attacks are often coordinated by a botnet, a web of compromised computers acting at the whim of the hackers behind the attack. The American debate contrasts favourably with the cavalier way such issues in Britain have been relegated to a quango and the whim of an elderly bluestocking baroness. Show More Sentences The cards keep their usual ranks except for the ace which can be either the highest or lowest ranked card in a suit at the whim of the person playing it. On a whim, he bought two more lottery tickets in early July of this year. Mendes married British actress Kate Winslet in May 2003 on what they characterised as a whim while on holiday in Anguilla. We would have to rely on the whim of the United States for the effectiveness of the whole basis of our strategy. On all subjects he spoke his mind, often, through whim or impatience, more than his mind, freely, without regard to consequences. Thirty years ago, Lori Goldstein tried her hand at styling on a whim. Mary had taken the whim into her willful head, and Jane could not dissuade her. Our group leader proved highly ineffectual, caving to every whim put forth by the other members. A vox pop of Chapel St shoppers found women's motivation ranges from love to whim. Basically, a lot of rafting clubs also have kayaks, so people try it on a whim and pick up the sport as a hobby this way. On a whim, he went in and inquired about whether it was on the market. Originally from Columbus, Ohio, goldstein found her calling on a whim. Initially, Taylorism was hailed as a progressive force that would free workers from the whim of autocratic bosses and benefit all. Given the dire lack of experience and talent, it's no wonder institutions are left to the politically correct whim of the moment rather than rock-steady vision and focus. The 82 passengers and five crew aboard the twin-jet Boeing 737 were at the whim of terrorists whose fanaticism had rarely been matched in the grisly history of air piracy. Fifty-something Material Girl, three kids Desperately Seeking PreNup, WLTM impossibly low maintenance, but highly successful bloke to indulge every whim. On a whim, God give the thumbs up for survival or a thumbs down for death. Examples from Classical Literature I am not a paper-hanger or house painter to be engaged and then dismissed at the whim of a millionaire. The whim had seized her and was holding on tight that Emmeline's might be the Right Place. He trembled lest he should have been the plaything of a whim, for he had heard what a capriccio might mean in an Italian. Mark you, it is not wisdom but a whim of mine which causes me to be graciously minded! For the daring and brilliant youth who held the joystick was a master-pilot, who understood every whim and fancy of his machine. Do you think that I have followed you here to grovel at your feet for mere whim? Every crank's whim, every cretin's philosophy, is fired at him first of all. What was Althing that it should submit to the whim or the will of any Governor? The poetical whim of cretin, a French poet, brought into fashion punning or equivocal rhymes. The next whim of this vain, fantastic, and crazy man, was to prove that the Trojan horse could really have been constructed. Marriage was a social contract that could be made or broken at the whim of the individual. There was no dragon guarding her, and she might wander unwatched about the garden, unvexed by the family tyrant's whim. I had heard in a vague way of the place, as a whim of a certain young nobleman who combined brains with the pursuit of pleasure. Twas a foolish, ignorant whim of his crazy, widowed mother, who died when he was only a twelvemonth old. Yet some whim or other led me, on remarking that the red had come up consecutively for seven times, to attach myself to that colour. Was it for an unconsidered and foolish whim that they came to me, then? It seemed to have a vast inorganic life of its own, a volition and a whim. It was in vain that I brought the batteries of common-sense to bear upon her whim. He would be a harder, sterner man, not so ready to adapt himself to a silly girl's whim. With all your powers you must live at the whim of other cultures. Show More Sentences Its whim and humour is describable only by the British Aristophanes. He's been satisfying every whim of curiosity that pops into his mind. Perhaps it was a mere whim on his part, for he is falling, they say, into second childhood, but I love him for showing so much interest in you. What started on a whim that year has since grown as feverishly as the couple's showiest shrubs. It is an airy and comfortable room as any one need wish, and, of course, I would not be so silly as to make him uncomfortable just for a whim. This is some passing whim of your wife, due to some cause or causes which you and I needn't try to fathom. To be whimsical, therefore, in pursuit of a whim, fanciful in the chase of a fancy, is surely but to maintain the spirit of the game. Last January, Iraq's only law was the whim of one brutal man. The longing was with him day and night, an incessant undefinable craving, like the sudden whim of a sick man for food or drink once tasted and long since forgotten. Find more words! 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