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How to use the word RANDOM in a Sentence? Page #8

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It felt like we were back home on a random weekend, i couldn't partake in what they were doing. But it was fun to watch.

Jordan Spieth

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

They talked extensively about whether we should give a random member of the flight crew... an ability to enter the cockpit, but then they decided that that was just from a security standpoint you couldn't guarantee that outsiders wouldn't learn that.

Peter Goelz

Found on CNN
9 years ago

If people feel they can no longer care for a pet, all they have to do is surrender him or her to a nearby rescue group or shelter, rather than abandon the poor animal at some random location, where their chances of survival are almost zero, this is truly a cowardly act and a punishable offense.

Jeff Dorson

Found on CNN
9 years ago

This is one of those random places where you feel like you should have shot better than you did, but you're not out of it, you can make birdies. The problem is there is trouble around every corner.

Henrik Stenson

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

It's an incoherent mix of people, helicopters and random kit from all sorts of different sources, but there is an element of internal cohesion from the Nigerian army, it appears to be a desperate ploy to get some sort of tactical success up there in six weeks for the electoral boost.

One Abuja-based diplomat

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

They don't have titles. Before people saw the movie, there were these weird press releases focusing on the unreleased music. And it's like: It's a movie. We're not going to stop it and play a song for four minutes, but nobody in Kurt's life — not his management, wife, bandmates — had ever heard his Beatles thing [a snippet of 'And I Love Her']. I found it on a random tape. It's a Paul [McCartney] song. How's that for shattering the myth?

Sundance Morgen

Found on CNN
9 years ago

At 36 I never thought I be in this position, it's encouraging that random strangers stop to talk, to give advice, to give hope, and opportunity by having a conversation.

Rob Crozier

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

It's encouraging that random strangers stop to talk, to give advice, to give hope, and opportunity by having a conversation.

Rob Crozier

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

We can't point to anything specific, it's just the way the jet stream bulged and set up. It's random, like a deal of cards. Sometimes you're dealt a royal flush, sometimes you get nothing.

Art DeGaetano

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

I prefer to be with someone I can trust. I’m more into that, if you like someone and the sex is really good and you enjoy spending time together, why wouldn’t you make that person your girlfriend? Why go around dating random girls and having terrible sex when you can be with someone you really like?

Arthur Elgort

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

This was not random, we have evidence that leads to that.

Police Chief Douglas Cole

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

In England they seemed to be picking random numbers [and] hoping it would make a difference, hoping it would shrink it, but it didn’t make a difference, they then offered steroids but I didn’t think it would be right giving a baby steroids— I was against it.

Aimee Ramos-Price

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

I pretty much cry myself to sleep every night worrying about where they are and if a police officer or any random individual tries to pull them over and isn't so nice and hurts them.

Tammy Martin

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

She's now a widow, this is really pointless. It had nothing to do with them. They did nothing wrong. It wasn't about them. It was pure and random hatred.

New York

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

This series of events are not believed to be random acts, and there is no risk to the broader public, these events do not appear to be gang related, but rather tragic incidents of domestic violence.

Rod Knecht

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

This series of events are not believed to be random acts and there is no risk to the broader public, these events do not appear to be gang related but rather tragic incidents of domestic violence.

Ron Knecht

Found on CNN
9 years ago

This series of events are not believed to be random acts, these events do not appear to be gang-related, but rather tragic incidents of domestic violence.

Ron Knecht

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

He understands that I've always wanted to travel so while he's not happy I'm taking off for nearly a month at Christmas with a random guy he's smiling through it.

Elizabeth Gallagher

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

The threat we face definitely includes those sort of self-starting, sometimes quite random attacks that could happen at any moment in Britain, people who are self-radicalized on the Internet who then suddenly do appalling things, that is much more difficult to prevent.

David Cameron

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The course was really there to be had and I got off to a nice start through 10 holes and I was feeling really good, but unfortunately it slowed up on the back nine and a couple of random wedge shots cost Adam Scott dearly, I'm within shouting distance, at least. Thirty-six holes, there's a lot of golf to be played, and if I play a good 36 I think I can be in with a chance.

Adam Scott

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Novels as dull as dishwater, with the grease of random sentiments floating on top.

Italo Calvino

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.

Diana, Princess of Wales

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty.

Unknown

added by anonymous
13 years ago

For every living creature that succeeds in getting a footing in life there are thousands or millions that perish. There is an enormous random scattering for every seed that comes to life. This does not remind us of intelligent human design. "If a man in order to shoot a hare, were to discharge thousands of guns on a great moor in all possible directions; if in order to get into a locked room, he were to buy ten thousand casual keys, and try them all; if, in order to have a house, he were to build a town, and leave all the other houses to wind and weather - assuredly no one would call such proceedings purposeful and still less would anyone conjecture behind these proceedings a higher wisdom, unrevealed reasons, and superior prudence."

J.W.N. Sullivan

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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