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Example sentences for: whim

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Eleva , Wisconsin, is said to have been named by the whim of a snowstorm.
Mainly positive reviews for Homes' latest novel, which, like her other work, is designed to outrage: A corporation man gets genital tattoos, a bored suburban couple burn down their house on a whim, etc.
Prior to that, frequencies had been calculated on the basis of raw occurrences in a text selected by a researcher at whim, though it must be acknowledged that the books (at least) selected for examination were classics of literature assumed to be widely read, taught, and used as models of effective expression (if one insists on avoiding the concept of good English).
On CNN's Late Edition , Tucker Carlson predicts that politics will continue to be yoked to the whim of current events.
Because this herd can stampede at will, if not at whim, developing nations, now known as "emerging markets," no longer have much discretion about which economic policies to pursue.