whims

Example Sentences

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In her story, we’re all at the mercy of each other’s whims.

From Salon • May 19, 2026

The entire stock market will soon become, for all intents and purposes, the meme-stock market, and your retirement accounts are at the mercy of their whims.

From Slate • May 15, 2026

More reliance on T-bills, however, opens the government to the whims of the market.

From Barron's • May 6, 2026

Technically, this is not “Wuthering Heights,” but “Wuthering Heights” in the self-referential quotation marks on the poster, an acknowledgment that Fennell has plunged her fingers into the plot and manipulated it to her whims.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 11, 2026

Even the Commander is subject to its whims.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood