Words similar to arbitrary

Example sentences for: arbitrary

How can you use “arbitrary” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Yes, some will argue that Anderson's surprise is cheating, or arbitrary, or a trick--but the way for it is prepared by Ricky Jay's witty narration at the beginning of the film, which all but tells us to expect learned pigs.
Here “arbitrary” means that we can choose to perform any such measurement we wish by placing the partition arbitrarily in the box.
Saddam Hussein's gassing of the Kurdish population in 1988 falls outside the arbitrary 10-year rule.
The striking thing about today's announcement is that changes in the Dow still make headlines, not because they happen so often (actually, they happen very rarely) but because the Dow is such an arbitrary collection of names to begin with.
Thus, arrays developed in future will benefit from this increased resource and knowledge base, and will therefore be less arbitrary than current versions, permitting an even more efficient use of resources.