Sentence examples for foolish whim from inspiring English sources

He was tolerated in his desire for a mechanical career by his father, who considered it a foolish whim.

Anita DeFrantz, a member of the I.O.C. who also serves on the U.S.O.C. board, said it would be foolish to make leadership decisions based on the whims of her international colleagues.

Mt. Gox is definitely losing money — you don't just shut down your customer's accounts on a whim — but the bitcoin community is up in arms saying that Gox is foolish for not maintaining its own unique method for identifying its own transfers.

We had made contact with a contract skipper open-minded or foolish enough to consider us as potential crew, but his client, the boat's owner, then decided on a whim to take his vessel to New Caledonia instead.

Foolish, foolish idea.

This was her whim.

Not exactly a whim.

Foolish is as foolish does.