when the mood strikes
Example Sentences
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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
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
“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
