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How to use the word willy in a Sentence?

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I phoned Willy and Getty Images Kate, asked what they thought. Nazi uniform, they said, i rented Getty Images Kate, plus a silly moustache, and went back to the house.

Chris Jackson/Getty Images Harry

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It won't only be what I hear at the state fair, but what I've heard in my county meetings that I hold regularly. Inflation is number one. Some people call it cost of living, saying gas prices. And the fact is, the president is not enforcing law at the border. It just irritates people. You can't come to America without our permission. And we've had 2 million people just willy-nilly cross the border.

Chuck Grassley

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

It was something that Willy Joseph believed in Willy Joseph heart, that was the right thing. Willy Joseph was the type of man who always stepped up when everybody else stepped back, and there were a lot of men who were like that that were with Willy Joseph.

Rebecca Cabrera

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Two Stone Crabs general managers kids knew Blake Snell before Blake Snell was even in the major leagues, willy Adames, when Willy Adames was in the minor leagues, Willy Adames was so good with Two Stone Crabs general managers kids, playing catch with Two Stone Crabs general managers kids on the field. Willy Adames just went above and beyond to be friendly to kids in Two Stone Crabs general managers community.

Lynn Dorler

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It would be speculation to say at this point, there are a lot of currents on the lake that get up here, particularly in the afternoon. We believe it was mid-afternoon when Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP disappeared. The idea of perhaps being that the boat started drifting, it was unanchored, and that Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP mustered enough energy to get Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP son back onto the boat, but not enough to save Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP.

Bill Ayub

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

If there's no coronavirus in the world, we would have been able to be at Willy's bedside. The issue would have been simpler or narrowed to his kidneys, there are many ideas about how to celebrate his life. But nobody can make any plans right now.

Jane Haugh

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

In the words of Willy Wonka Willy Wonka -- we are' Delighted ! Charmed ! Overjoyed !' with Taika's appointment on this project.

Gideon Simeloff

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I grew up reading Dahl stories and lived large parts of my young life in those magical worlds, so finding just the right creative partner to bring Willy Wonka, Charlie and the Oompa-Loompas to life in animation was a daunting task... until Taika Waititi walked into the room, then it was really obvious. If Dahl had created a character of a filmmaker to adapt his work, I'm pretty sure he would have created Taika Waititi.

Melissa Cobb

Found on CNN
4 years ago

People need to stop reacting, just stay still, if everybody just sits still until the readiness comes up to the right level, that's better than running willy-nilly in every direction.

Jason Robnett

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

It took maybe four months to get this interview and then they willy-nilly cancel it.

Stephen Crane

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

It doesn't allow the Chinese government to willy nilly put backdoors in products.

Andy Purdy

Found on CNN
5 years ago

This is a real-life Willy Wonka experience with coffee as the heart and soul.

Liz Muller

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I think the important part to realize that we actually were able to pull off a successful election with checks and balances, we just didn't do willy-nilly e-ballots, they have security that was on them. We have documentation that's on them, we have all the processes to backup and protect why we did what we did.

Mark Anderson

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Is it realistic that he’s just willy-nilly going to do that? Absolutely not, but, you know, progress can be made, freezing the program, who knows what he’s — what his ambitions are as it relates to South Korea.

Bob Corker

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

We intend to look but we will not be allowed by the land owner to dig willy-nilly without good geological information about where we will likely be successful, i'm waiting for our geologists to return from summer field schools to look into it.

Peter Houde

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

We need to be vigilant and discourage people who start fires willy nilly.

Steady Kangata

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Many people in Germany and Europe are mourning this courageous, upright and great Social Democrat, the architect of German unity, a politician who worked for peace, and a European, the Ostpolitik of Willy Brandt and Egon Bahr was a crucial condition for overcoming the division of Germany and Europe.

Sigmar Gabriel

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Many people say that Steve Jobs is the Henry Ford or Andrew Carnegie of our time. Those comparisons are completely incorrect. Steve Jobs is Willy Wonka.

Tony Ricciardi

added by anonymous
9 years ago

I don't like to pick on other farmers, even if it wasn't a drought year, the only difference is I don't have a pipe in the Delta I can suck willy-nilly whenever I want.

Shawn Coburn

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

We're not doing this willy-nilly because we're a bunch of disgruntled soccer moms, this policy is harmful to our society, to our schools, to our teachers and to our children.

Morna McDermott

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Into this Universe, and Why not knowing Nor Whence, like Water, willy-nilly flowing And out of it, as Wind along the Waste, I know not Wither, willy-nilly blowing.

Omar Khayym

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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