CAPRICE in a Sentence

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34 example sentences for CAPRICE, such as:

1. She had taken an amiable caprice to me.
2. my caprice, and for its being guaranteed to me when necessary.
3. I have suffered a martyrdom from their incompetency and caprice.
4. Some revolutions may have originated in caprice, or generated in ambition.
5. Without conscious intention he began to clutch at every passing caprice, taking it for a desire and an object.

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caprice
 n.  sudden, unexpected fancy; impulsive change of mind
Classic Sentence: (33 in 3 pages)
1  He was much admired in society, and he indulged every whim, even every caprice and every folly, and gave himself airs, but that too was attractive in him.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
2  Of course, this very stupid thing, this caprice of ours, may be in reality, gentlemen, more advantageous for us than anything else on earth, especially in certain cases.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: VIII
3  my caprice, and for its being guaranteed to me when necessary.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: IX
4  But what it was, no one could tell: it might be some caprice of a sick and half-crazy man, or it might relate to public affairs, or possibly to family concerns.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER VIII
5  Yes, my dear friend," he began, "such is fortune's caprice.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XXIX
6  In regard to the migration of the peoples it does not enter anyone's head today to suppose that the renovation of the European world depended on Attila's caprice.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 17: CHAPTER IX
7  I have suffered a martyrdom from their incompetency and caprice.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
8  She had taken an amiable caprice to me.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
9  Mr. Bennet was so odd a mixture of quick parts, sarcastic humour, reserve, and caprice, that the experience of three-and-twenty years had been insufficient to make his wife understand his character.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
10  If his own vanity, however, did not mislead him, he was the cause, his pride and caprice were the cause, of all that Jane had suffered, and still continued to suffer.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 33
11  The imperfections of his mind run parallel with those of his body, being a composition of spleen, dullness, ignorance, caprice, sensuality, and pride.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER VI.
12  We felt that they were not the tyrants to rule our lot according to their caprice, but the agents and creators of all the many delights which we enjoyed.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
13  As to any other kind of discipline, whether addressed to her mind or heart, little Pearl might or might not be within its reach, in accordance with the caprice that ruled the moment.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In VI. PEARL
14  But, whether influenced by the jealousy that seems instinctive with every petted child towards a dangerous rival, or from whatever caprice of her freakish nature, Pearl would show no favour to the clergyman.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XIX. THE CHILD AT THE BROOKSIDE
15  Without conscious intention he began to clutch at every passing caprice, taking it for a desire and an object.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 8
Example Sentence:
1  Some revolutions may have originated in caprice, or generated in ambition.