whims

Example Sentences

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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

Things were already difficult for independent producers like the Harden family, who had to weather the whims of corporate farming operations and distributors.

From Salon • May 15, 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

He also is a decisive leader who isn’t afraid to make decisions that buck conventional wisdom or the whims of his, or any, party.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026

Not with the old man and his single-minded whims.

From "A Tangle of Knots" by Lisa Graff