Sentence examples for haphazard as from inspiring English sources

As haphazard as they were, the Mets still had life in the top of the eighth.

The marking by defenders is so haphazard as to suggest a fundamental weakness.

The problem is that the funding mechanisms the plan relies on are as gimmicky and haphazard as ever.

And the criteria for selection appear to be nearly as haphazard as some of the objects on view.

The mix of value and quality added to the impression that the robbery was as haphazard as it was brazen.

As haphazard as evolution sometimes seems to be, we didn't opt for big brains on a whim.

But some of Mr. Heatherington's patrons were less forgiving Thursday morning as they chided President Obama for what they saw as a slow, haphazard response, as well as for his remarks Wednesday that he intended to roll back tax credits for the oil industry.

The grouping of the operas is haphazard and, as was the case this year, is sometimes far from ideal.

You can look at Carol's end in many ways: as an innocent's devastating encounter with terror-obsessed police, as a ghastly but haphazard event, as a death foretold.

In novels in which the coincidences show up, they will usually be described and read not as haphazard coincidence but as devastating or farcical destiny.

John Moore, a contributor to Clough Williams-Ellis's campaigning Britain and the Beast (1937), took off in a hired Tiger Moth to describe how towns and even villages were "nibbling their way outwards … as haphazard and casually as caterpillars nibbling at a leaf … the mess creeping along the sides of all the roads that radiated from the towns".