How to Use caprice in a Sentence

caprice

noun
  • Employees have complained of being at the mercy of the manager's every whim and caprice.
  • But Cass is not the man to beat his head in bitterness over female caprice.
    — Frank C. Hibben, Outdoor Life, 27 Feb. 2025
  • But all of this is merely the set-up for the major mishap that happens — a kind of cosmic caprice.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 20 Feb. 2025
  • The differing responses reflect, at least in part, the caprice of a virus that has .
    — Robert Klemko, Washington Post, 7 May 2020
  • Alone in her room with her array of makeshift miniature dolls, she is led by the caprice of her imagination.
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 25 June 2024
  • Itzkoff does a good job of capturing this period’s madcap caprices.
    — David Kamp, New York Times, 15 May 2018
  • Nature, with its cruelties and caprices, is more powerful than you.
    — Mary Schmich, chicagotribune.com, 2 May 2017
  • There is a loss in that—in the elimination of some of the wonder at the universe’s seeming caprice.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 18 Aug. 2017
  • The idea was that each piece would be a virtuoso caprice that was about the violin and the violinist.
    — Mark Swed, latimes.com, 30 Apr. 2018
  • Buy Photo This week has constituted a case study in the caprice of summer rains.
    — Anthony R. Wood, Philly.com, 25 July 2017
  • The caprice of the weather, the mysteries of life and death, and such, have always cried out for explanations.
    — Steve West, Sun Sentinel, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Andy bobs up and down on the waves of the warden’s caprice, sometimes living relatively well and sometimes thrown in the hole.
    — Kyle Smith, National Review, 4 Apr. 2020
  • The government is now reliant on him, but struggles to respond to his risk-taking, brinkmanship, and caprice.
    — Ronan Farrow, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2023
  • This might literally be the only Caprice that can turn on with the push of a button, but that doesn’t soften its growl.
    — Andy Benoit, SI.com, 19 July 2017
  • The heart of our empire brought to a shuddering halt by the caprice and ambitions of those for whom ambition was never meant.
    — Lorraine Ali, Star Tribune, 13 Apr. 2021
  • Frank himself often seems confused by the caprice of the world around him, which frequently punishes him for breaking its rules.
    — Sam Thielman, The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2022
  • No more relying on the fleeting kindness of Christian princes or the caprice of Ottoman viziers.
    — Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic, 19 Nov. 2015
  • The whims and caprices of a volatile administration have given most of them a deep sense of insecurity.
    — Marquis William Childs, Harper's Magazine, 19 Feb. 2025
  • Europe is deluded to interpret the withdrawal as a fit of Trumpian caprice.
    — Michael Doran and, WSJ, 17 June 2018
  • The path drops away steeply, on one side into scientific sterility and on the other into artistic caprice.
    — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 7 Feb. 2025
  • Every day, by caprice, the lives of ordinary, law-abiding people—our neighbors—are being destroyed.
    — Erin Neil, New Yorker, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Just as Cupid fires off arrows willy-nilly, Bechtel’s music has matching caprice.
    — Hugh Hunter, Philly.com, 24 June 2018
  • Deviation from the letter of the Rule wasn’t seen as activism or caprice, as with modern laws, but wise discretion.
    — Timothy Farrington, WSJ, 9 Aug. 2022
  • With a whip in one hand and a wind-bent tree in the other, the barefoot girl makes a taunting entrance, radiating caprice like some malicious sprite.
    — Laura Collins-Hughes, New York Times, 18 Oct. 2022
  • However, the success of these provisions will depend on the caprice of local politics.
    — Christopher Calton, Oc Register, 29 June 2026
  • She may at any moment by the caprice of fate be summoned to the most exalted position in the greatest Commonwealth in the world.
    — Alison Fishburn, Longreads, 17 Sep. 2022
  • However, as Roy discovers, his good parents, good choices and mostly good fortune do not shield him from the pain and caprice of the world.
    — Stephanie Powell Watts, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2018
  • But there can be no doubt that Facebook, already beset on all sides, has hung a lantern on its unsettling combination of power and caprice.
    — Rich Lowry, National Review, 7 May 2021
  • Consider, for instance, Stu’s problem with low ratings, which passengers often post for reasons of caprice and spite.
    — Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, 12 July 2019
  • Take Zendaya, whose charmingly uneven incisors are a testament to the power that comes from not bowing to the caprices of fashion.
    — Vulture Editors, Vulture, 23 May 2024

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