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.

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 Meanings and Examples of WHIMSICAL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
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.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 2
2  The captive Abbot's features and manners exhibited a whimsical mixture of offended pride, and deranged foppery and bodily terror.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
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
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
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
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.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XXV
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...
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.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 47. The Dappled Grays.
9  "But perhaps he may be a little whimsical in his civilities," replied her uncle.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 43
10  Most women are moody and whimsical.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXII
11  She smiled at Scarlett, whimsically, as the music ended, making a little moue of apology as she dabbed with her handkerchief.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
12  As they drew nearer she was whimsically struck by a kind of family likeness between Miss Van Osburgh and Percy Gryce.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
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.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
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.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 28. Ahab.
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.