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:

  • My nomination for the unspoken issue of the year in both parties' debates is--what does society do with the mentally ill that we kicked out of mental hospitals two or three decades ago and who have become, willy-nilly, the homeless?

  • Perhaps the two Bush administration officials, or their writers, were aware of objections to the positions attributed to them and decided to take the initiative, Thornburgh by distancing himself from those favoring a `willy-nilly' commitment of troops in Latin America and Cheney by blaming members of Congress for urging `willy-nilly' proposals to cut the defense budget.

  • 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.

  • Instead of opening a direct connection with the destination computer, messages are sent willy-nilly, chopped up into little packets that are reassembled when they get to their destination.

  • 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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