willy-nilly

How To Use willy-nilly In A Sentence

• Well – guess what it ends up sounding like…a guy from Sheffield England, imitating DeNiro in some scenes, remembering what his accent coach told him about Baltimore-speak in others e.g. “hours” as [æriz], and generally adding and dropping the post-vocalic [r] sound willy-nilly. Rambles at starchamber.com » Blog Archive » GIMME SOME CAW-FEE!
• Most of the scenes could be re-edited willy-nilly and still have the same effect: total boredom.
• If they're used willy-nilly, they will merely increase public anxiety.
• There are some pieces of music that must be parceled out over a lifetime, and you don't want to spend their impact willy-nilly.
• In reply, however, I assured him that I MUST waste myself willy-nilly, and that the "Review" was only a save-all. The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley
• It was made perfectly clear that money will not be tipped onto a table for the town to spend willy-nilly on pet projects.
• The Minister himself has given up now on going through the review process; he is just making arbitrary closure decisions around the country, willy-nilly, whether they are good schools or bad schools.
• I think Harry's problem is that we all willy-nilly typecast him as the naughty younger brother.
• The central organizing principle of every single street in America is that people will not start pushing each other, willy-nilly, into traffic. Matthew Yglesias » Finding Terrorists is Hard
• Our willy-nilly attempts to "decapitate" Saddam's regime with bunker busters was only a small part of the shock-and-awe bombing campaign that sowed death and depleted-uranium dust (a cancer-causing, DNA-altering time bomb) throughout Iraq. Celebrity Carnage