She bought that dress on a whim.
I bought the encyclopedia on a whim.
He dotes on his grandchildren and indulges their every whim.
An idle whim, I fear, Sir, 'was my answer;' or else an idle whim is going to spirit me away.
As president, he can dissolve parliament on a whim.
That suggestion was no whim of the moment.
So on a whim my viola-playing girlfriend and I decided to put a quartet together.
We could decide what to watch, based on almost any whim.
Some clients feel like you exist solely to cater to their every whim.
If you only pray about them once, they are not a desire, they are just a whim.
Under the prevailing "law of partnerships", businesses could be dissolved at the whim of a single partner.
On a whim, she would make pizza with Cantonese sausage, steak with hoisin sauce, and sushi with roast pork.
On a whim, he decided to take a trip around the country to look up nearly a dozen old girlfriends.
No one negates history out of a passing whim, but only under the impact of harrowing and unsuspected tragedies.
Johnson learned about the contest from his son, a New York University film student, and decided to enter on a whim.
That is because Mr Chavez has created a personalised regime of government-by-live-television in which senior officials must interpret his every whim on pain of dismissal.
Surrounded by aides who cater to his every whim, he reportedly lives on church-owned property, formerly a resort, in Southern California.
The language in the budget bill would, in effect, let the governor privatize any or all of these facilities at whim.
Mr Zardari would then inherit the swollen powers Mr Musharraf grabbed for the office, allowing him to appoint provincial governors and service chiefs and to dissolve parliament on a whim.
Or why not find out whether there is a bigger demand for your product in the South East of England, Wales or Scotland instead of risking money by launching it on a whim?
HSBC has lost its reputation as an astute buyer of Banks. Its dream of being a leading firm in China is subject to the whim of that country's nationalistic government.
In ancient times, when a man of royal blood married a foreign woman of royal blood, it wasn't on a romantic whim. It was part of foreign policy, a way to cement relations with another nation.
