whims

Example Sentences

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Wary of being vulnerable to the whims of foreign governments, the European Union is preparing far-reaching new moves to ditch American digital companies and Chinese chips in favour of European alternatives.

From Barron's • May 30, 2026

“It would be absurd to keep going back and forth with the whims of the weather,” Dan Waber, Rainbow Tomatoes Garden’s owner, told Salon Senior Food Editor, Ashlie D. Stevens in June 2025.

From Salon • May 28, 2026

But like his predecessor in the ’70s, Powell has declined to manipulate interest rates at the president’s whims.

From Slate • Apr. 24, 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

I cannot ignore the fact that it’s the customers’ sloppiness and idle whims that make me bend and crouch and run.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich