Sentence examples for whim by from inspiring English sources

Or they might be joined, on a whim, by Julie, in search of diversion on a langourous summer's night.

Into his life comes a London journalist, Caroline Wallace, sent on a whim by her literary editor to "revive interest" in Desmond's work.

I do not want a game where supporters feel their players can be whisked off on a whim by the opposition,' said the players' champion.

Had I only known that Base, an outpost of hip on Lincoln Road, anticipated my whim by introducing a scent of its own.

Peel was hardly constrained either: he indulged his dearest whim by getting his hero Gene Vincent to record in Hollywood with the crazed Kim Fowley.

And of course the method by which Oberon punishes Titania for her refusal to grant his whim — by bewitching her into making love to an ass — is peculiarly perverse and humiliating (albeit, of course, very funny).

The rhetoric has been about "liberation", but the model of private contract, between Whitehall and individual schools, will arguably allow future secretaries of state unprecedented power to impose personal whims, by threatening to cut off funding.

Mr Labastida was its first presidential candidate to be chosen not by presidential whim but by a primary election, even though it may not have been perfectly clean.

The decision, she said, had been made on a whim, inspired by having to obtain a new license plate anyway.

I suspect that people who want to buy conference tables are doing so for their business, not on a whim prompted by their personal browsing.

Within an hour Land had sketched the means of satisfying this filial whim and, by 1947, an instant sepia film and camera were on the market.