whims

Example Sentences

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Over the years, Cottray has picked up on the more genial whims of celebrity guests.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026

Things were already difficult for independent producers like the Harden family, who had to weather the whims of corporate farming operations and distributors.

From Salon • May 15, 2026

The entire stock market will soon become, for all intents and purposes, the meme-stock market, and your retirement accounts are at the mercy of their whims.

From Slate • May 15, 2026

Technically, this is not “Wuthering Heights,” but “Wuthering Heights” in the self-referential quotation marks on the poster, an acknowledgment that Fennell has plunged her fingers into the plot and manipulated it to her whims.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 11, 2026

“An awful spectacle,” opined The New York Times, a “sacrifice to the whims and theories” of a “coterie of cranks and politicians.”

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover