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How to use willingly in a sentence

26 example sentences · adverb

Willingly means of one’s own free will; freely and spontaneously. Example: “The fact that pledges willingly submit themselves to hazing is neither here nor there, and any organization that engages in hazing will lose its charter.”

Examples of willingly by meaning

adverbOf one’s own free will; freely and spontaneously.

  • In the first place, although many people wanted nationalisation and it became the will of Parliament, there were many other people who did not want it, have never willingly accepted it, and never will.1958 January, 'Borderer', “Ten Years of British Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 12

More sentences with willingly

  • The fact that pledges willingly submit themselves to hazing is neither here nor there, and any organization that engages in hazing will lose its charter.From the entry neither here nor there
  • They considered she may have parked the car or willingly gotten into another vehicle to skip town.2026 August 6, Nicholas Muhoro, “An Ohio Teen Vanished During a One-Mile Drive in 1994. Her Locked Car Was Found Hours Later”, in Skip…. From the entry voluntarily
  • What native Angelino would willingly subject themselves to a fifty-minute commute?2022, Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, Vintage (2023), page 217. From the entry Angelino
  • The answer depends on whether the doxxee, like Hovater, willingly revealed his or her identity.2017 August 12, Joseph Holt, “‘Doxxing’ someone, even if he’s a Nazi sympathizer, poses a serious ethical dilemma”, in CNBC. From the entry doxxee
  • I could have here willingly ranged, but these straits wherein I am included will not permit., New York, 2001, p.107. From the entry include
  • "They will know something is wrong, for the brute would not willingly have left her side.1999, Lin Carter, The Quest of Kadji. From the entry monsterling
  • They willingly made the leap into invasivorism.2014 October 14, Holly Hughes, editor, Best Food Writing 2014, Hachette Books, →ISBN. From the entry invasivorism
  • I've only just accepted myself as I am (mostly) and I will NOT willingly return to the Fallujah of Self-Esteem.2012, Kathryn Blume, Dancing to the Beat of the Great Green Heart, KBI Press, →ISBN, page 65. From the entry diaperwear
  • Thus she willingly journeys with me in my soul-search.2004, Linda Elaine Thomas, Living Stones in the Household of God, page 158. From the entry soul-search
  • I had learned that cattle willingly walk down a ramp that has cleats to provide secure, nonslip footing.1995, Temple Grandin, Thinking in Pictures, page 6. From the entry cleat
  • They were willingly accepted for surgical duties in the Presbyterian mission hospital in the neighbouring city of Han-yang.1973, Roderick Stewart, Bethune, General Publishing Co. Ltd., published 1975, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 121. From the entry Han-yang
  • Many other computer hackers also willingly offered advice.1968 September, Rory [Jack] Thompson; Louis N[orberg] Howard, thesis supervisor, “Acknowledgments”, in Instabilities of Some…. From the entry hacker
  • Instead it recommends how to preen the city for the uncritical gaze of a kind of tourist who willingly accepts low-grade commercialized leisure.2011, Dean MacCannell, The Ethics of Sightseeing, page 200. From the entry preen
  • Thus the festival-goer is tangibly and emotionally 'freed' from routine and enters willingly and with anticipation into a temporally and spatially special environment.2002, Chris Ryan, The Tourist Experience, →ISBN, page 139. From the entry festival-goer
  • Can you account him wise or discreet that would willingly have his health, and yet will do nothing that should procure or continue it?, New York, 2001, p.74. From the entry continue
  • The misty hills do not willingly nourish and nurture the human species any more than bongols willingly drag loads uphill for it.1998, Harold Strachan, Way up, way out, page 88. From the entry ja well no fine
  • He’d willingly go on his knees to Xt as one of the best, if not the best, of men, but not as God.1969, William S. Peterson, “Some Representative Browningites—I”, in Interrogating the Oracle: A History of the London Browning Society…. From the entry XT
  • Alief is a concept useful in virtual training that describes situations where the person experiencing a simulated scenario knows it is not real, but suspends disbelief (willingly or unwillingly).2011, Derek Harter, Shulan Lu, Pratyush Kotturu, Devin Pierce, “An Immersive Virtual Environment for Varying Risk and Immersion for…. From the entry alief
  • But all of us took an oath to do our duty when we joined the Space Force, and I fully expect everyone to willingly keep their word.2007, George Simmons Roth, Battle in Outer Space, →ISBN. From the entry oath
  • David Robertson, publisher of The Nilson Report, said Internet companies were plagued by "friendly fraud," in which "your perfectly valid cardholder can deny a transaction he willingly made."2003 May 13, Jennifer Bayot, “Company Sues MasterCard Over Fees for Online Sales”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 19…. From the entry friendly fraud
  • I can be rather unladilike in some of my responses and there is a point at which I willingly give up the pretense of civility and simply attack.1995 June 2, Babs Woods, “cook upset”, in rec.food.cooking (Usenet), archived from the original on 02 Jun 2025. From the entry unladilike
  • Because she was a known hitchhiker in the neighbourhood, police theorised that she must have gotten into a vehicle willingly with someone she either knew slightly or trusted on sight.2026 July 29, Nicholas Muhoro, “Amy Billig Vanished While Hitchhiking Through Coconut Grove. Then the Calls Began”, in Skip Boring…. From the entry theorise
  • I cannot legally quote him here, but believe me, judging by these missives, Joyce was a full-on spankophile who understood precisely what it means to submit (and to willingly struggle).2010, Rachel Kramer Bussel, Spanked: Red-Cheeked Erotica, page vi. From the entry spankophile
  • That anyone would willingly swap being the disher of easy criticism, second-guessing, amateur psychoanalysis, pious lectures and sundry other grief to become the dishee is probably cause for an intervention.2009 August 14, Jim Coyle, “Going from pulp to friction”, in Toronto Star. From the entry disher
  • He observed that unlike humans, animals never willingly posed, which meant that an animalier had to be "an earnest student of anatomy" or he could not accurately portray his subjects.2007, Jesse Donahue, Erik Trump, Political Animals: Public Art in American Zoos and Aquariums, →ISBN, page 26. From the entry animalier

Meaning of willingly

  1. adverb Of one’s own free will; freely and spontaneously.

Full definition of willingly

Questions about willingly in a sentence

How do you use willingly in a sentence?
Willingly is used as an adverb. For example: “The fact that pledges willingly submit themselves to hazing is neither here nor there, and any organization that engages in hazing will lose its charter.”
What is a short sentence with willingly?
“They willingly made the leap into invasivorism.”
What does willingly mean?
Willingly means of one’s own free will; freely and spontaneously.

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