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How to use capriciously in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word capriciously? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
Officials who treat citizens capriciously should not be surprised when citizens use the legislature to put the officials on a shorter leash.
We felt that we were asking them to abide by their standards, which were being executed capriciously.
Neither has the tsunami anything in common with God's final judgement, as the tsunami killed and destroyed capriciously, without rhyme or reason.
But can an Assembly be dissolved arbitrarily, capriciously, whimsically, at the absolute discretion of a Chief Minister?
The Corporation shall not change an employee's assignment capriciously or without justification.
Sometimes monarchs capriciously granted indefinite exclusive rights to someone they favoured.
The Crimea was part of Russia until as recently as 1954, when Khrushchev capriciously transferred it to Ukraine.
Regulations related to safe transport of goods should be clear and not capriciously enforced.
It is neither a matter of intellectual data distributed capriciously nor of mere insubstantial talk in an ambiguous chat.
And largely unknown groups must never be capriciously favored, however much they might look like the enemy's enemy.
In its decision, the Panel rejected Ivaco's contention that the ITC was obliged to collect the most current data available and that, by refusing to do so, had thereby acted arbitrarily or capriciously.
The review is based on arguments that the processes lacked procedural fairness, or that decisions were capriciously made without regard to the evidence gained through a fair procedure.
It is only if the judge acts in bad faith or utterly capriciously, does not apply the law with deliberation or acts with a misappropriated purpose that the provision may be invoked before the disciplinary body.
But when the troops left some southern states began to pass barriers, such as capriciously enforced literacy tests designed to keep blacks from voting.
The monarchs seem mostly to have done so capriciously, often with little regard for the merits of the place they were enfranchising.
In those Zen gardens I also saw superb, capriciously gnarled trees.
After stirling efforts in winds that for the last two days have been capriciously unstable in strength and direction, Marc Guillemot has managed to get north-west of Anne Liardet.
Similar to Saskatchewan, the people in Nova Scotia were subjected to promises and agreements that were arbitrarily and capriciously thrown away by the Conservative government.
The suggested survey cannot be conducted simply by mailing a questionnaire, to which employers may respond incompletely or capriciously and whose objective they may not understand.
Is there a single contract in the world that only one of the parties can arbitrarily and capriciously dissolve, against the wishes of the party with whom he has contracted?
Examples from Classical Literature
It was her duty to see to it that she did not use it capriciously, for her own gratification.
He did not punish capriciously, nor terrify them by anything worse than his strictness.
He is hurt and angry that one of us could be so capriciously unjust to him.
The sky was cloudy, and the wind veered about capriciously to all the points of the compass.
He was as capriciously selected as he was capriciously ejected by his friends.
Barbara trifled with the chessmen, moving them capriciously here and there.
The Atlantic deals curiously and capriciously with reputations.
Lots were capriciously granted and as capriciously withdrawn.
And the little princess began to cry capriciously like a suffering child and to wring her little hands even with some affectation.
To the left ran a line of mountains capriciously shaped, lying in the full light.
The fact was that disease played with us capriciously very much as the winds did.
I could distinguish the arches springing capriciously from natural pillars, standing broad upon their granite base, like the heavy columns of Tuscan architecture.
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