Sentence examples for on whim from inspiring English sources

"on whim" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it to refer to something being done on an impulse or sudden whim, without forethought or consideration. For example, "He decided to buy a new car on whim."

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Nobody is really in charge, and decisions are made on whim and caprice".

He inserted and deleted names, sometimes, it seemed on examination of the notebook, on whim.

Like her guest list, her menu draws on a few favorites, but mostly relies on whim.

But then, requiring religious bodies to submit to licensing from the state, which can be denied on whim, is a notorious way of suppressing freedom of conscience.

It is also based essentially on whim, often strange whims; you are unlikely ever to see a woman walking down the street in Galliano's corset of duchess satin, which is embroidered with nearly a thousand micro-crystals made by Lesage.

From the start, people used the needles on turntables in signature ways — starting and stopping records on whim, mixing the work of their bodies with the properties of the record — the way one might strum a guitar or blow a flute.

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So is it possible to run one on a whim?

"I went in and on a whim sat on this silly children's ride," he said.

On a whim, he looked on eBay for equipment.

Just on a whim.

On a whim, she invited him.

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