Sentence examples for reckless whim from inspiring English sources

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Soon afterwards, on a sudden reckless whim, I bought a grand old farmhouse in the remote swampy depths of the Mississippi Delta.

After a harrowing tour of duty near Baghdad, Walker returned home to Ohio where his undiagnosed P.T.S.D. led him first to drinking, then to drugs, then, on a reckless whim, to robbing banks.

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Mr McCain is ultimately responsible for picking Mrs Palin, and it was reckless to pick a running-mate on a whim or in a fit of pique.

I didn't take a gap year, but I have heard plenty of stories about doing something reckless in search of a rush, and New Zealand caters to such whims in all sorts of ways, from skydiving to bungee jumping to that strange practice of mimicking a giant gerbil in a plastic ball, called "zorbing".

Four decades after Hechler introduced a bill to abolish mountaintop removal and reckless strip mining, the U.S. Congress has completely abandoned central Appalachia to the whims of Big Coal lobbyists and their sycophant Big Coal-bankrolled supporters in the House, who have effectively derailed any legislation.

This was her whim.

How reckless!

Not exactly a whim.

Reckless, perhaps.

The whim paid off.

Just on a whim.

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