How to Use at random in a Sentence

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• Place five dots at random, with no three dots in the same line, and hunt for the four-cornered dentless shape.
  — Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 10 Aug. 2026
• 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
• Inspections typically take place at random every six months to a year.
  — Phillip Valys, Sun Sentinel, 8 July 2026
• The bedroom is on floor one, the first door on the right (that door, by the way, has three peepholes carved seemingly at random), and is bedecked in reddish wood.
  — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Aug. 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
• Healthy user bias is very difficult to scrub out of observational studies, which compare people as they are treated in real life rather than assigning the drug at random.
  — Ziyad Al-Aly, The Conversation, 13 July 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
• The sky was alive with millions of fluttering shapes, congregating into clouds at random, occasionally turning into ribbons that wound through the trees.
  — David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 28 July 2026
• Why choose something at random when the perfect, most specialized thing for you surely exists somewhere in the digital ether and is available for immediate consumption?
  — Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker, 8 July 2026
• Giving circle members nominate prospective nonprofits to be considered, and the charities are drawn at random for consideration at the meeting.
  — Francine Knowles, Chicago Tribune, 3 Aug. 2026
• Investigators believe Rocha chose the vehicles at random after interviewing the victims and determining that none of them had any connection to her.
  — Matthew Rodriguez, CBS News, 14 Aug. 2026
• And the trailer shows how idyllic the four victims’ college experience was until Bryan Kohberger (who has pled guilty to the murders) seemingly picked them at random to act out his serial-killer obsession.
  — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 15 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