Sentence examples for with a whim from inspiring English sources

(A friend of mine up from Maryland with a whim and a five-dollar bill couldn't get ten against it in ordinary barroom money anywhere, although he wanted Ahab).

A man with a "whim of steel" (as one of his editors put it), he faced down the courts and bulled through first "Lady Chatterley's Lover" and then "Tropic of Cancer".

Debra Baker as Donna rules her little world with a whim of iron, Alice Franklin is oddly touching as a flaky receptionist obsessed by her recent breast-implant operation, and Adam Brown as a divorced dad from Dartford deftly shows the humiliations people will suffer for the sake of a job.

Kermit's role on The Muppet Show was often compared by his co-workers to Henson's role in Muppet Productions: a shy, gentle boss with "A whim of steel" who "[ran] things as firmly as it is possible to run an explosion in a mattress factory".

It's kind of a hybrid Les Paul/Firebird thing that I came up with on a whim because I'm kooky like that.

The majority may not be the best choice, but the easiest to side with on a whim.

Minaj's relationship to the heterosexual male gaze is neither straightforward rejection nor submission, but rather playing with it on a whim, as a cat might play with a mouse.

They bought their first bird, who no longer lives with them, on a whim in 2004.

The site soft launched earlier this year, and has just enabled "On-demand" tutoring, allowing users to hook up with teachers on a whim.

Would do it with scissors, on a whim, to a lover during a kinky sex game.

My mom loved bringing festivity to occasions when I accomplished something new; she also loved to spontaneously celebrate life by singing and dancing with me on a whim.