Whim in a sentence as a noun

" How does one just on a whim "go viral?

You're completely at the whim of a 3rd party, Dropbox.

He would journey throughout Georgia on a whim, stopping to talk to strangers.

Even if you are legally following the rules, they can deny you on a whim.

By catering to my every whim, in effect they make me a tyrant over them, which is not a role I like.

Senior management can commission studies at great expense then ignore the result on a whim.

Now this was a two week vacation I was taking, with lots of other things scheduled, so I couldn't really just up and shift the whole thing two weeks on a whim.

The taxpayers didn't abuse and humiliated that poor man on a ******* whim, the individual police officers did.

Projects don't get killed "on a whim", they get killed because they're a bad idea, or they don't work, or they get shelved for a year, or three, or more until the rest of the technology catches up.

They certainly ought not be removed from existence on anyone's personal whim, original author or not, no matter how much we sympathize with his situation, whatever that might be.

This leads to marriages which can be formed and destroyed at the whim of any person, and in our society today, it's even worse because women are considerably favored in the break-up.

I've literally heard people say, "Well, I make $400K a year but I'm not rich because it costs a lot of money to pay mortgage and taxes in Westchester County and send my kids to private school and drive a nice car." They think that "rich" means "disposable income I can spend a whim," when in fact living in Westchester and sending the kids to private school is part of being rich.

Why should ownership continue to be an option ten, twenty, or thirty years from now, when it's so much more attractive to companies to rent their products to you for a constant stream of monthly income?Will books end up getting unskippable "updates," or even being deleted at the whim of the publishers or Amazon one day?

Whim definitions

noun

a sudden desire; "he bought it on an impulse"

See also: caprice impulse

noun

an odd or fanciful or capricious idea; "the theatrical notion of disguise is associated with disaster in his stories"; "he had a whimsy about flying to the moon"; "whimsy can be humorous to someone with time to enjoy it"

See also: notion whimsy whimsey