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.
• Nonetheless, the courtship between Mr. Trump and Mr. Pence had all the caprices of a young romance.
  — Ashley Parker, Alexander Burns and Maggie Haberman, New York Times, 16 July 2016
• In fact, twice — once at the hands of their killers and again at the caprices of the ME [medical examiner].
  — Deanna Boyd, star-telegram.com, 31 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 differing responses reflect, at least in part, the caprice of a virus that has .
  — Robert Klemko, Washington Post, 7 May 2020
• 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
• Buy Photo This week has constituted a case study in the caprice of summer rains.
  — Anthony R. Wood, Philly.com, 25 July 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
• CapriceAs far as nightclubs go, there isn't a place that's more Greek than Caprice, an Astoria hot-spot which has been around for 15 years.
  — Margarita Bertsos, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Mar. 2016
• 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
• 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
• No more relying on the fleeting kindness of Christian princes or the caprice of Ottoman viziers.
  — Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic, 19 Nov. 2015
• 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
• 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
• I would be guided only by my merest whim, caprice, or appetite.
  — Jeffrey Steingarten, Vogue, 21 Apr. 2014
• Walks outside, even just to the walled-in courtyard, are granted or withheld with similar caprice.
  — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
• 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
• All of life is in these books: beauty, wit, pride, faith, caprice, sorrow, regret, tenderness.
  — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 3 Feb. 2020
• 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
• When extreme wealth turns journalism into a hobby, the caprice of a rich owner can put 115 people out of jobs—not to mention erase years of their work.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 3 Nov. 2017
• 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
• Itzkoff does a good job of capturing this period’s madcap caprices.
  — David Kamp, New York Times, 15 May 2018
• 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
• This is not just the story of Mozart and his starling, but a love letter to vulgarity, messiness, caprice and the beauty of things that don’t fit, don’t go where they are supposed to.
  — Helen MacDonald, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2017
• Nature, with its cruelties and caprices, is more powerful than you.
  — Mary Schmich, chicagotribune.com, 2 May 2017
• Europe is deluded to interpret the withdrawal as a fit of Trumpian caprice.
  — Michael Doran and, WSJ, 17 June 2018
• But spot checks are an expensive way to view traffic during a very small window of time, subject to the caprices of the day: great weather, a breakdown here, a soccer game there.
  — Henry Grabar, Slate Magazine, 16 Oct. 2017
• To a generation that knows nothing about Ingmar Bergman, Hansen-Love’s name-dropping caprice will mean even less.
  — Armond White, National Review, 13 Oct. 2021
• Only humans, in all our caprice, grounded in all of our competing and cooperating supply centers, decide which games are worth playing and how to play them—and why.
  — WIRED, 26 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024