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
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
But credit Chandler, too, with an eye for decor — that carpet with the “Florida suntan” — and for being wickedly funny when the mood strikes.
From Washington Post • Jul. 26, 2018
“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
