Example sentences for: willy-nilly

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

  • 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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