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How to use willed in a sentence

12 example sentences · adjective

Willed means having a document specifying inheritance. Example: “He willed his stamp collection to the local museum.”

Examples of willed by meaning

adjectiveHaving a will (of a specified kind).

  • The free-willed subject here is the subject formation enacted by the party who is going to be visited with a fortunate (or unfortunate) legal consequence.1998, Pierre Schlag, Laying Down the Law: Mysticism, Fetishism, and the American Legal Mind

More sentences with willed

  • He willed his stamp collection to the local museum.From the entry will
  • The rats' movings are willed movements.From the entry moving
  • He strode purposely to the conduit, stepped inside, and willed himself downlevel.2010, Steve Stanton, Reconciliation. From the entry downlevel
  • Like my Pa, Josh willed all of his mortal remains to the embetterment of science.2010, B. J. Davis, Fictionaut: Ordinary People. From the entry embetterment
  • The white feminist and white gay movement have willed themselves ignorant of black feminist and black gay experiences.1986, Daniel Garrett, “Creating Ourselves: An Open Letter”, in Joseph Beam, editor, In The Life: A Black Gay Anthology, page 102. From the entry will
  • They are entwined in nethermost darkness, the willer with the willed, and in an instant (fiat!) light shall flood the world.1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 14: Oxen of the Sun]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey]…. From the entry willer
  • But ancestrals cannot be willed away .1921, Jagannath Raghunath Gharpure, Principles of Hindu Law, page 390. From the entry ancestral
  • Muse willed the change, swallowing and carefully constricting the epiglottis in a series of timed bio-codes that had taken her a long time to master.2011, Gabriel S. de Anda, Scissors, Rock and Paper Doll, →ISBN. From the entry bio-code
  • Shenzhen was a planned showcase city, willed into being by leaders in Beijing and supported by government ministries and the companies under them.2008, Leslie T. Chang, Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China, New York: Spiegel & Grau, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 29. From the entry Shenzhen
  • Comedian of love, my wind willed boy has entered the bees' abode, the danger yard of roses his second spring to toedance with the wasps.1956, Harold Witt, “Boy”, in Saturday review, volume 39, page 23. From the entry toedance
  • For although the ur- political act is in one sense unconstrained and willed, it is simultaneously unavoidable, and its enactment does not guarantee the subsequent freedom Arendt aimed at.2013, Michael Freeden, The Political Theory of Political Thinking, page 106. From the entry arrogative

Meaning of willed

  1. adjective Having a document specifying inheritance.
  2. adjective Having a will (of a specified kind).
  3. adjective Brought under the will of another person.

Full definition of willed

Questions about willed in a sentence

How do you use willed in a sentence?
Willed is used as an adjective. For example: “He willed his stamp collection to the local museum.”
What is a short sentence with willed?
“The rats' movings are willed movements.”
What does willed mean?
Willed means having a document specifying inheritance.

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