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Willy-nilly
"Willy-nilly" in a Sentence (13 examples)
You can't just walk out willy-nilly!
The 'jump' action in this game is context-sensitive, so you can't jump willy-nilly.
Don't go off willy-nilly. Let's make a plan.
It seems all very willy-nilly and makes you wonder “why them and not us?”
Don't throw your clothes into a drawer willy-nilly.
They made decisions willy-nilly, without any proper discussion or strategy.
Some writers chasing money churn out novels willy-nilly.
Whenever I see a long handsome neck, willy nilly, the thought will come uppermost—What a capital neck for carving! Those cursed executions! One can't rid one's mind of them.
[I]f you love him not, then you can love me, and, therefore, can come to please yourself, willy-nilly. What! am I to be thwarted in such a trifle? Willy-nilly, I say, I will marry thee. Come—we waste the time.
The outer world is what we wake up to every morning of our lives, is the place where, willy-nilly, we must try to make our living.
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The novel Alice in Wonderland describes a place where things happen willy-nilly.
[S]omeone saw thy willy-nilly nun / Vying a tress against our golden fern.
O my God, if man be only / A willy-nilly current of sensations— / Reaction needs must follow revel—yet— / Why feel remorse, he, knowing that he must have / Moved in the iron grooves of Destiny?
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