random

[ˈrændəm]

Definition:
1. Done, chosen, etc. without sb deciding in advance what is going to happen, or without any regular pattern.
2. Lacking any definite plan or order or purpose; governed by or depending on chance.
3. Taken haphazardly.

Use 'random' in a sentence:

1. Men are exposed to more acts of random physical violence.
2. The terrorists fired into the crowd at random.
3. I made a gesture of weariness. It is absurd to look for a well, at random, in the immensity of the desert.
4. He kept FBI agents on call 24 hours a day to do random tasks around his house—like repairing his lawnmower.
5. The study, published online in April in the journal Memory and Cognition, found that the "wrong" name is not random but is invariably fished out from the same relationship pond: children, siblings, friends.
6. Pick, at random, Busuu in Cameroon ( eight remaining speakers), Chiapaneco in Mexico ( 150) ．
7. I've fallen into the habits of the solitary; my meals are snatched and random.
8. I'm practicing self-control, those random and improvisational acts aren't allowed.
9. On random inspection the meat was found to be bad.
10. You may also want to only do detailed logging on a random fraction of requests and extrapolate from there.
11. Place items here and pay a fee to receive random enchantments.
12. Children's words and actions are often fairly random.
13. It's one of the reasons we love stories so much: they give meaning to what might otherwise be random events.
14. Those things might be social, sporting, creative or completely random (dancing around the living room, anyone?).
15. I sat down on the floor and pulled a few books off the shelf at random.
16. The survey was conducted based on a random selection of women who were in the shop.
17. to carry out random spot checks on vehicles.
18. Recall that very basic building block we introduced last week which allowed you to grab a random number between 1 and 10 or 1 or a hundred.
19. Starting this year, Chinese education authorities will institute random, ghostwriting, and other forms of academic misconduct.
20. Earth is a target in a cosmic shooting gallery, subject to random violent events that were unsuspected a few decades ago.
21. "A car that takes off from some London street and lands in another random street is unlikely to happen," says Prof. Gray, a leading aeronautical engineer.
22. It could just be a random glitch that can be solved by restarting the machine.
23. I knew nothing beyond a few random facts.
24. The list is arranged in a random order.
25. We do random things like asking people in the street questions and testing sports clothing.
26. Norton GoBack is the perfect tool for random system crashes, failed installations, and inadvertent deletions.
27. Those who will benefit may be the elderly relatives of the random person we didn't pass in Starbucks, on the subway, or in the elevator.
28. The results ob-tained agree well with those given by Verges using random Bethe lattice model.
29. If random numbers are messed up, all security based on it is suspicious.
30. Three black people were killed by shots fired at random from a minibus.
31. A small boy appears utterly confused as the ears twirl apparently at random above him.
32. If a chimp is put in a cage where he can pull in one plate of food for himself or, with no great effort, a plate that also provides food for a neighbor to the next cage, he will pull at random---he just doesn't care whether his neighbor gets fed or not ．
33. I love polka dots and this pattern has a more random splay of dots and almost looks like a hazy animal print from a distance.
34. Comprising artists Mark Boyle and Joan Hills and their children, they recreated random sections of the British landscape on gallery walls.
35. Yet an equally important criterion is the ability of a species to survive random global ecological catastrophes due to impacts.
36. Three people were killed by shots fired at random from a minibus.
37. How do you get these hearts to move up and down and seemingly in random patterns?
38. It turned out that the woman, Natalie Smith, had read something on a friend's refrigerator: Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty.
39. Any decent shot with telescopic sights could pick us off at random.
40. Three African-Americans were killed by shots fired at random from a minibus.
41. The survey used a random sample of two thousand people across the Midwest.
42. What happens when the order of the index column is random?
43. We based our analysis on a random sample of more than 200 males.
44. That random shape changing would be consistent with the spots being clouds.
45. Whereas in mammals the tiny tubes that convey nutrients to bone cells are arrayed in parallel lines, in birds the tubes form a random pattern.
46. The survey used a random sample of two thousand people across England and Wales.
47. We received several answers, and we picked one at random.
48. On-the-field success and high participation in sports is not random—it requires focus and dedication to athletics.
49. The competitors will be subject to random drug testing.
50. Silent genes accumulate random mutations, they reasoned, eventually rendering them useless.
51. Names were chosen at random from a list.
52. The interviews were given to a random sample of students.
53. The information is processed in a random order.
54. Police will conduct random breath tests.