capriciously

Example Sentences

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The pursuit for better never ends and capriciously it brings no guarantees of improvement.

From BBC • Mar. 24, 2025

And then, just as capriciously as it had burst forth, the drama subsided.

From New York Times • Dec. 20, 2022

The Continental Divide takes an indistinct course across Yellowstone’s volcanic highlands, capriciously assigning drainages to the watersheds of the Pacific and Atlantic oceans.

From Salon • Apr. 21, 2019

The justice channeled his inner Scalia, drawing upon a deep skepticism of the government’s power to capriciously punish citizens and immigrants alike.

From Slate • Apr. 17, 2018

Although neophyte writers may repeat a simple sentence structure to the point of inanity, most writers go to the opposite extreme and vary their syntax capriciously.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker