Whims Sentence Examples

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  • Anything less leaves everyone vulnerable to the whims of others.

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  • If you decide to indulge your party planning whims in such a way, be prepared for your efforts to be overlooked.

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  • Max may or may not choose to assist them, depending on his whims.

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  • She soon tired of him, returned to Paris and gratified her whims in ways that caused some scandal.

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  • Acting on this principle he ruled frivolously, and with a wanton indulgence of whims. In 1820 his misrule provoked a revolt, and he remained in the hands of insurgents till he was released by foreign intervention in 1823.

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  • Imposed on how actual betting and whims hunches and have to go.

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  • Clinical need would be the priority not political whims.

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  • Personal firearms should not be subject to the whims of fashion.

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  • The legal monopoly on local service remains, competition there remains restricted to the whims of politicians.

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  • No longer must reliance be made on the memories of others or the whims of past editors who decided what must be recorded.

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  • The distinct characteristics of toddlers' summer dresses vary throughout the years depending on designer whims.

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  • Although such areas of fashion are subject to trends, it is more the colors and materials that are affected by the whims of fashion, rather than the actual clothing designs.

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  • This will depend upon your region's climate and upon the whims of Mother Nature.

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  • From the classic business man to the sporty crew cut, some styles have been around for many decades, while others seem to emerge as a result of pop culture whims.

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  • Their logo preserves their history and reflects the class and self-confidence of a franchise not tempted by the whims of the moment.

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  • In the digital age you are no longer confined by the whims and vagaries of busy bodies in your life.

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  • Not only are Scorpios very accommodating to the Piscean tendency to flit through life, but they are also fairly indulgent of their whims.

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  • This man so deeply wants a loving, cosmic and spiritual connection that he'll ignore any of your flaws, place you on a pedestal and give in to all your whims.

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  • Cinderella's loving father passed away, leaving her to take care of the whims of her selfish stepmother and two ugly, wicked stepsisters.

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  • A project like this is versatile as well, inviting your creative whims and inspiration.

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  • He has a big personality for his age, and his mom and dad don't shy away from indulging his whims.

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  • The Assembly followed; and henceforth king and Assembly were more or less under the influence of the whims and passions of a populace maddened by want and suspicion, by the fanatical or unscrupulous incitements of an unfettered press, and by the unrestrained oratory of obscure demagogues in the streets, the cafs and the political clubs.

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  • Unlike the picture painted by PR critics, coalitions are seldom directed by the whims of tiny parties blackmailing large parties.

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  • The institutions of state became subservient to the whims of Number 10.

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  • Where I am scattered, the computer will execute precise, almost maniacally focused behavior, deterred by no passing whims.

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  • The personal whims of the skipper can decide to a great extent the relative comfort of their lives.

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  • In the 17th century, flood water was lifted by chain pumps with tipping buckets, powered either by waterwheels or horse whims.

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  • It is pleasant, too, to note her thoughtfulness for little children, and her readiness to yield to their whims.

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  • In fact, there are few better examples of how our whims as consumers can lead to such energy-intensive efforts to sate demand.

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  • Whether the payments continue will depend to a large extent on the whims of bureaucrats in the EC or in the US administration.

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  • They make those of us doing the research dependent on the whims of owners, who tend to be less focused on our problems.

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  • No longer will you be at the whims of the public pool halls or the local dive bar.

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  • He did so, and then governed like an evil-disposed boy - indulging the merest animal passions, listening to a small camarilla of low-born favourites, changing his ministers every three months, and acting on the impulse of whims which were sometimes mere buffoonery, but were at times lubricous, or ferocious.

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  • Mariette, who was appointed by the viceroy Said Pasha at the instance of the French government, succeeded in making his office effective and permanent, in spite of political intrigues and the whims of an Oriental ruler; he also secured a building on the island of Bulak (Bulaq) for a viceregal museum in which the results of his explorations could be permanently housed.

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  • The meanest of the fancies of the mind and the most casual of its whims he regarded as a better warrant for the being of God than any single object of nature.

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  • As it was, these studies of Leonardo - "studies intense of strong and stern delight" - seemed to his trivial followers and biographers merely his whims and fancies, ghiribizzi, things to be spoken of slightingly and with apology.

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  • He was left to his whims - even the strangest - and to his taste for violent exercises; and the excesses to which he gave himself up ruined his health.

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  • I 'm due for of the hr their whims related.

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  • But the strongest argument, and one which has never been attacked by authorities really competent to judge, is that the "griffe de l'aigle" is on the book, and that no known author of the time except Rabelais was capable of writing the passage about the Chats fourres, the better part of the history of Queen Whims (La Quinte) and her court, and the conclusion giving the Oracle of the Bottle.

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