How to Use at random in a Sentence

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• The first battle is a bloodbath, with the men picked off by musket fire almost at random.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 1 July 2026
• There will be 10 unique toys – at random – in each Happy Meal.
  — Laura Sirikul, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026
• Its remaining five songs seem to appear at random, never gelling into a cohesive force or threading a narrative.
  — Dash Lewis, Pitchfork, 6 July 2026
• But with no index and no standardization, finding an individual pensioner meant going through files at random.
  — Jackie Snow, IEEE Spectrum, 13 May 2026
• As noted above, though, that genome was only distributed into the next generation of cells at random, and pieces of it were progressively lost over each generation.
  — ArsTechnica, 2 July 2026
• Duffy announced a federal investigation into the transit system following the fatal stabbing of Margaret Swan, an Atlanta great-grandmother who was attacked at random on a MARTA train.
  — Irene Wright, USA Today, 29 June 2026