Example sentences for: whimsy

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

  • She and her cousin compare breasts, play with vibrators, and talk in pig Latinish gibberish, but Jenkins never lets the proceedings get too sentimental: The whimsy is always cut with an acidic awareness of the family's desperation.

  • Having occasionally confronted your "whimsical" sister with the true version of events, and apparently getting nowhere, Prudie suggests you have a tough conversation outlining the potential damage dishonesty can create in relationships with those having less "whimsy."

  • She constantly embellishes her stories and everyday conversation with nonsensical, made-up whimsy that she expects people to take at face value.

  • 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.

  • 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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