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"Whim" in a Sentence (14 examples)
Father was generous enough to indulge my every whim.
If you write your address on a web-page, anybody can find out where you live if the whim takes them.
At work they are at the whim of the boss.
Once you decide to enter a profession, you can't change your mind on a whim.
It was only a whim.
Each bureaucrat has their own idiosyncrasies as to what papers they will require from you. To be safe, bring all the papers you can, and then get the ones that you can't. Even then, you will be at their whim.
Layla was victim to Sami's every perverse whim.
"Well, in the first place, I don't think my ideal would speak like that," said she. "He would be a harder, sterner man, not so ready to adapt himself to a silly girl's whim. But, above all, he must be a man who could do, who could act, who would look Death in the face and have no fear of him—a man of great deeds and strange experiences."
Tom acted on a whim.
He moved to Kabylie on a whim.
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Let ev’ry Man enjoy his whim; / What’s He to Me, or I to him?
The king was tired of this whim of hers long ago, and thought she ought to get married like other people; there was nothing she need wait for, she was old enough and she would not be any richer either, for she was to have half the kingdom, which she inherited after her mother.
“You’re either with me or you’re against me” became Dany’s credo, and those against her were an ever-changing multitude to be determined solely by her whims.
He also disagreed with the idea of cancelling projects "completely at the whim of an individual Prime Minister," citing Rishi Sunak's decision to cancel HS2 north of Handsacre Junction.
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