when the mood strikes

Example Sentences

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Then, when the mood strikes, make your stew and transfer the crust right from the freezer to the dish before baking.

From Washington Post • Feb. 6, 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

A vision in face paint and elaborate headgear, Xianniang can assume other human forms and, when the mood strikes her, erupt into a mighty flock of birds.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 3, 2020

And others will prefer to share when the mood strikes them rather than invite Facebook to nag them.

From The Verge • Nov. 9, 2015

“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