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How to use arbitrary in a sentence

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In those circumstances the arrest, though subsequently found to be unlawful, could not be said to be capricious or arbitrary.
There is a pattern of arbitrary executions, the systematic rape of women and girls and people being abducted.
But the poem is mostly static, because the sequencing of lines, despite the abecedarian scheme, feels inadvertently arbitrary.
Though critics saw him as quick-tempered, harsh, abrupt, and arbitrary, practically everyone recognized his genius as a chief of staff.
The only thing that stands between us and the deep abyss of arbitrary executive power is the Rule of Law.
I have found that there was not an arbitrary detention and also that there was not a warrantless search.
It may even be that the House may find it necessary to place some arbitrary limit on awards of damages that are made by way of punishment.
It's entirely arbitrary in some ways, but grief is not a simple process that you switch on or off.
Of course it would be arbitrary of me to accuse the shop owner of putting on an act or simply making a show.
The variables selected in Tables 1 and 2 are somewhat arbitrary, and should not necessarily be given equal weighting.
The High Court said while granting maintenance, some formula or yardstick must be adopted and it must not be whimsical or arbitrary.
The chief problem with katharevousa was that it was an arbitrary mixture of ancient and modern features.
The following films deal with rebellion against arbitrary or repressive authority.
On the contrary, the relationship between signifier and signified is arbitrary.
Just when one thinks the Justices might zig, they zag, but whichever way they turn, their reasoning seems increasingly arbitrary and contrived.
On the other hand the photographer in a similar two dimensional format, sets out to portray a likeness of the sitter within an arbitrary moment.
The use of the severity and rarity criteria has meant that arbitrary and unjust decisions have been applied to many claims.
Capricious and arbitrary as the system might be, it serves several contradictory needs at once.
Citizens, too, began to complain that the economic system was bafflingly arbitrary.
The numbering of years is a cultural artifact based on some rather arbitrary decisions made along the way.
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