ARBITRARY in a Sentence
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17 example sentences for ARBITRARY, such as:
1. You can make an arbitrary choice.
2. The choice of players for the team seemed completely arbitrary.
3. Patriotism is a arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.
4. Neighborhood distinctions are arbitrary and often straddle zip codes.
5. If it is a purely arbitrary one, it may be impossible for us to solve it.
2. The choice of players for the team seemed completely arbitrary.
3. Patriotism is a arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.
4. Neighborhood distinctions are arbitrary and often straddle zip codes.
5. If it is a purely arbitrary one, it may be impossible for us to solve it.
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Meanings and Examples of ARBITRARY
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arbitrary
a. based on or subject to individual discretion or preference or sometimes impulse or caprice
Classic Sentence:
1 The movement of humanity, arising as it does from innumerable arbitrary human wills, is continuous.
2 But to arrive at these laws, resulting from the sum of all those human wills, man's mind postulates arbitrary and disconnected units.
3 And the farther we go back in examining events the less arbitrary do they appear.
4 And while their manners were thus the subject of sarcastic observation, the untaught Saxons unwittingly transgressed several of the arbitrary rules established for the regulation of society.
5 If it is a purely arbitrary one, it may be impossible for us to solve it.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In III. THE ADVENTURE OF THE DANCING MEN
Context Highlight In III. THE ADVENTURE OF THE DANCING MEN
6 He is a seemingly arbitrary man, but this is because he knows what he is talking about better than any one else.
7 And yet she's firmly persuaded that I'm an arbitrary overbearing bossing kind of person.
8 And should this happen, she had no legal rights, no legal redress, except those same drumhead courts of which Tony had spoken so bitterly, those military courts with their arbitrary powers.
9 Thirdly, Despotical power is an absolute, arbitrary power one man has over another, to take away his life, whenever he pleases.
10 Nicholas, though he had never seen Ilagin, with his usual absence of moderation in judgment, hated him cordially from reports of his arbitrariness and violence, and regarded him as his bitterest foe.
Example Sentence:
1 Patriotism is a arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.
2 You can make an arbitrary choice.
3 The choice of players for the team seemed completely arbitrary.
4 Neighborhood distinctions are arbitrary and often straddle zip codes.
5 He threw an arbitrary assortment of clothes into his suitcase and headed off, not caring where he went.
6 Its curves are arbitrary, and what we call accidental, but one after another follows it as if he were guided by a chart on which it was laid down.
7 The bridge is where hundreds of peaceful protesters were brutally beaten on "Bloody Sunday" as they sought to end discriminatory tactics — such as poll taxes and arbitrary literacy tests — used by white officials to prevent African Americans from voting.