Example sentences for: whimsy

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

  • In a Graveyard Spiral of Whimsy

  • It's just a whimsy of

  • Such humor or whimsy tends, in Johnson's work at any rate, to be of a fairly cynical turn--in keeping both with his general opinionatedness and with his specific feelings of demoralization while compiling the dictionary in the run-up to its publication in 1755.

  • "Though it sets out to explain why this marriage is worth saving, [it] could prompt even single members of the audience to file for divorce" (Maslin, the New York Times ). Its main defect: Although the movie tries for the same combination of whimsy and insight Reiner captured in When Harry Met Sally ...

  • What I wanted, however, was a larger perspective, something more insightful than the one-thing-after-another existential whimsy that made Bottle Rocket such a trial.


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