when the mood strikes
Example Sentences
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It’s simple to flip between your collection of lock screens when the mood strikes, but if you link lock screens to focus modes, they’ll switch automatically when that focus mode starts.
From The Verge • Jul. 11, 2022
The pieces are easy to change out when the mood strikes.
From Washington Post • Feb. 16, 2022
Sometimes, when the mood strikes, she opens an oyster or a clam and leaves it for her sea-gull friends.
From New York Times • Dec. 28, 2021
How do you find a balance that takes advantage of those strengths in service of the system and still leaves room for him to go full-on Jimi Hendrix solo when the mood strikes him?
From Slate • Sep. 4, 2020
“Ah yes. How it’s all right to burn our clothes when the mood strikes us because we’re going to die young?”
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
