Example sentences for: whim

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

  • 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.

  • In short, she became a parody of celebrity, indulging in every whim of the Hollywood overclass.

  • His specialty lay in the supply of troops on the front and, as the Russian invasion unfolded, he grew horrified by Hitler's willingness to cut off entire divisions on a whim.

  • That may not seem an auspicious beginning, but we must not despair, for an authority—if one is needed—must be lurking somewhere: either we have not found it or we must recognize the Editor's right to Humpty-Dumpty meanings into existence at a whim.

  • On CNN's Late Edition , Tucker Carlson predicts that politics will continue to be yoked to the whim of current events.


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