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How to use whim in a sentence

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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.
And she should not, if she values becomingness, attempt to follow every whim of Fashion.
But I don't think they could change it on a whim or for any frivolous reason.
Meanwhile Jonathan Strange, a charming, wealthy gadabout, takes up magic on a whim after becoming bored with trying to write lyric poetry.
His whim about perhaps dropping out of his own wedding is real to him, embracing his impulses as though they are a form of profundity.
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?
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.
Recorded in 1987 and conceived on a whim, it was a source of irritation to the band themselves.
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!
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?
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Examples from Classical Literature
Mark you, it is not wisdom but a whim of mine which causes me to be graciously minded!
Do you think that I have followed you here to grovel at your feet for mere whim?
There was no dragon guarding her, and she might wander unwatched about the garden, unvexed by the family tyrant's whim.
He trembled lest he should have been the plaything of a whim, for he had heard what a capriccio might mean in an Italian.
Marriage was a social contract that could be made or broken at the whim of the individual.
I am not a paper-hanger or house painter to be engaged and then dismissed at the whim of a millionaire.
Every crank's whim, every cretin's philosophy, is fired at him first of all.
The poetical whim of cretin, a French poet, brought into fashion punning or equivocal rhymes.
I was not fit to have children, if I sacrificed their wellbeing to his caprice and his whim, but that was what I did.
For the daring and brilliant youth who held the joystick was a master-pilot, who understood every whim and fancy of his machine.
What was Althing that it should submit to the whim or the will of any Governor?
The whim had seized her and was holding on tight that Emmeline's might be the Right Place.
The next whim of this vain, fantastic, and crazy man, was to prove that the Trojan horse could really have been constructed.
Kagh had not gone far when some whim caused him to turn about as if to retrace his steps.
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.
Indeed, Van Baerle's happiness depended on the whim of this man.
Its freshness, raciness, and eccentric whim no pen could describe.
With all your powers you must live at the whim of other cultures.
It was in vain that I brought the batteries of common-sense to bear upon her whim.
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