Sentence examples for whim for a from inspiring English sources

Several popular cellphone apps give someone with a sudden whim for a date the pictures and physical proximities of similarly inclined prospects.

A few very rich families might gratify a whim for a custom-grown human, but such families are unlikely to indulge in mathematical prodegies.

A few very rich families might gratify a whim for a custom-grown human, but such families are unlikely to indulge in mathematical prodegies..

If you have some strange whim for a particular flavour they'll conjure something up in their ice-cream lab at the rear of the shop, given 48 hours' notice – the more absurd the request the better they like it.

It is not right that coaches can just up and leave on a whim for a few extra dollars when players cannot transfer without sitting out and cannot even accept a telephone credit card.

At the marble-columned Mitsukoshi department store, one of Tokyo's fanciest stores, wealthy Chinese buy Japanese and European-brand clothes and handbags by the dozen, and spend hundreds of thousands of dollars, apparently on a whim, for a watch or painting in the store, said Shoji Saito, manager of overseas-related business.

Her closet brims with Ralph Lauren, Versace, Dolce & Gabbana and Gucci, which she combines at whim for an effect she calls "classic American with an Italian sex-bomb cut".

Buying a domain on a whim for the latest greatest idea ensures its ultimate success about as much as eating a corn dog at the Iowa State Fair ensures a change in "politics as usual". There is nothing wrong with kicking around big ideas and giving amazing speeches.

The New Yorker, August 20 , 1960 P. 23During a trans-atlantic crossing on an Italian liner, a couple was possessed by a whim for potato pancakes.

By Leonard Kramer and Burton Bernstein The New Yorker, August 20 , 1960 P. 23During a trans-atlantic crossing on an Italian liner, a couple was possessed by a whim for potato pancakes.

He didn't just leave me on a whim or for a fling.