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Example sentences for: willy-nilly
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By using willy-nilly rather than more formal terms such as “whether desired or not” ( American Heritage Dictionary ), they were turning to a minor word pattern in English called `reduplication,' meaning a partial or complete duplication of a given word.
And now to Him that giveth and taketh away and doeth exceeding great good to all that loveth Him and doeth his will willy-nilly, may the words of my mouth and the meditations of mine heart be acceptable to all of you and to both of you this day and henceforth forever, Amen.
Thornburgh stated that “he did not favor a `willy-nilly' U.S. military commitment” in Latin America and Cheney “decried ...
This brings us, willy-nilly, to the infinite utility of syllothetics.
It might impress him to hear the child regularize our odd plurals, with mans and gooses and lifes , a sub-rule which he has to swallow willy-nilly.
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