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:

  • 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 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.

  • 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.

  • 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 ...


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