Example sentences for: whims

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

  • However, just because elements in the same area of the Table are related atomically and chemically, this neatness is not necessarily reflected in the names, let alone the two-character symbols we have given to elements, which reflect all the chaos, variety, whims, and even vanity of history and human nature.

  • She's wrong: The issue isn't that working parents must choose between anesthetizing their children with television or catering to all their whims while also trying to pay the bills and nuke the frozen dinner.

  • account fund has swelled and contracted, depending on the pricing whims of the state's banks.

  • Now that manufacturers of power tools and ball bearings talk about their products as “fashion” items, the apparel industry—always subject to the whims of fashion—has much to say to any industry that involves retailing.

  • Language is also a kind of self-regulating system, adjusting system-wide to its users' needs and whims, and it is also a system in which the users attempt formal and informal kinds of regulation, establishing standards or trying to do so, making judgments about our own language use and that of other people (in the words of the radio commercial, "People judge you by the words you use ..."


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