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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:

But we don't give out drugs willy-nilly.
Thornburgh stated that “he did not favor a `willy-nilly' U.S. military commitment” in Latin America and Cheney “decried ...
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.
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.
It is tempting, when presented with any list of unattractive qualities--and let's assume copious drooling is unattractive--to apply it willy-nilly to our ideological foes.