Die woordeboekbetekenis van die woord "arbitrêr" is: op 'n ewekansige of onvoorspelbare wyse, sonder 'n duidelike rede of standaard, gebaseer op persoonlike voorkeur of grille eerder as objektiewe kriteria.
1. We cannot just accept it when you arbitrarily banish valued members of community, people we have known and loved for many years and who will die if they are sent from here.
2. It deemed completely arbitrarily, it seems, that this unexpected occurrence opened up new perspectives.
3. In one instance, on a line arbitrarily chosen, the depth did not vary more than one foot in thirty rods and generally, near the middle, I could calculate the variation for each one hundred feet in any direction beforehand within three or four inches.