Example sentences for: whimsy

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

  • 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.

  • In a Graveyard Spiral of Whimsy

  • -- Brooke Saucier ( Robert Rothman had a similar answer, but with sufficient whimsy to distract from the stench of death.)

  • And though it would later evolve into a kind of sport or game--a playful pastime in which braves showed off their flair for wisecracks and verbal whimsy, native nicknaming was still predicated on the idea that an apt name can, almost literally, capture a person's inner spirit.

  • His whimsy can be downright charming.


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