WHIMSICAL in a Sentence
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16 example sentences for WHIMSICAL, such as:
1. Most women are moody and whimsical.
2. A quavering voice, a whimsical mind.
3. He shrugged whimsically, his eyes crinkling behind his glasses.
4. Chance has put in our way a most singular and whimsical problem, and its solution is its own reward.
5. As they drew nearer she was whimsically struck by a kind of family likeness between Miss Van Osburgh and Percy Gryce.
2. A quavering voice, a whimsical mind.
3. He shrugged whimsically, his eyes crinkling behind his glasses.
4. Chance has put in our way a most singular and whimsical problem, and its solution is its own reward.
5. As they drew nearer she was whimsically struck by a kind of family likeness between Miss Van Osburgh and Percy Gryce.
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Meanings and Examples of WHIMSICAL
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whimsical
a. determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason; capricious
Classic Sentence:
1 Leaning, silent, sardonic, against the door he was like a withered willow, bent over a stream, all its leaves shed, and in his eyes the whimsical flow of the waters.
2 The captive Abbot's features and manners exhibited a whimsical mixture of offended pride, and deranged foppery and bodily terror.
3 I felt myself in that whimsical state of uneasiness lately; but I shall be spared it now.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: 5 Sharp Words Are Spoken, and a Crisis Ensues
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: 5 Sharp Words Are Spoken, and a Crisis Ensues
4 When a woman in such a situation, neither old, deaf, crazed, nor whimsical, takes upon herself to sob and soliloquize aloud there is something grievous the matter.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: 7 The Night of the Sixth of November
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: 7 The Night of the Sixth of November
5 Chance has put in our way a most singular and whimsical problem, and its solution is its own reward.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In VII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE
Context Highlight In VII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE
6 This obscure, whimsical, and disagreeable poem was despised upon its first publication, and I only treat it now as it was treated in its own country by contemporaries.
7 A quavering voice, a whimsical mind.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VIII—MADAME VICTURNIEN EXPENDS THIRTY FRANCS ON M...
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VIII—MADAME VICTURNIEN EXPENDS THIRTY FRANCS ON M...
8 To Danglars Monte Cristo also wrote, requesting him to excuse the whimsical gift of a capricious millionaire, and to beg the baroness to pardon the Eastern fashion adopted in the return of the horses.
9 "But perhaps he may be a little whimsical in his civilities," replied her uncle.
10 Most women are moody and whimsical.
11 She smiled at Scarlett, whimsically, as the music ended, making a little moue of apology as she dabbed with her handkerchief.
12 As they drew nearer she was whimsically struck by a kind of family likeness between Miss Van Osburgh and Percy Gryce.
13 Yet this demure affectation of extreme penitence was whimsically belied by a ludicrous meaning which lurked in his huge features, and seemed to pronounce his fear and repentance alike hypocritical.
14 But poorly could I withstand them, much as in other moods I was almost ready to smile at the solemn whimsicalities of that outlandish prophet of the wharves.
Example Sentence:
1 The hero is a playful, whimsical man who takes a notion to dress up as a woman so that he can look after his children, who are in the custody of his ex-wife.
2 He shrugged whimsically, his eyes crinkling behind his glasses.