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
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
Given that Drake tends to drop flotillas of tracks in various combinations when the mood strikes, it’s worth asking if his two-sided single—fine, we’ll call it Scary Hours—exhibits any thematic unity.
From Slate • Feb. 1, 2018
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
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