when the mood strikes
Example Sentences
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Then, when the mood strikes, make your stew and transfer the crust right from the freezer to the dish before baking.
From Washington Post • Feb. 6, 2022
Sometimes, when the mood strikes, she opens an oyster or a clam and leaves it for her sea-gull friends.
From New York Times • Dec. 28, 2021
How do you find a balance that takes advantage of those strengths in service of the system and still leaves room for him to go full-on Jimi Hendrix solo when the mood strikes him?
From Slate • Sep. 4, 2020
A vision in face paint and elaborate headgear, Xianniang can assume other human forms and, when the mood strikes her, erupt into a mighty flock of birds.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 3, 2020
“Ah yes. How it’s all right to burn our clothes when the mood strikes us because we’re going to die young?”
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
