involuntarily
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Involuntarily, I bit down hard on my tongue and started bleeding from my mouth.
From BBC • Jan. 13, 2024
“He removed his droopy garrison cap and turned to peer into the darkness. Involuntarily, we peered with him. But there was nothing to see,” Mellnik wrote.
From Salon • Nov. 11, 2018
Involuntarily, I glanced down at Benech’s shoes: exquisite tobacco-brown suède loafers, almost pantoufles, decorated with an explosion of pompons.
From The New Yorker • May 30, 2015
Involuntarily retired, he wrote a memoir that he never finished or published, and was largely forgotten until this year.
From New York Times • Jul. 3, 2014
Involuntarily, Dustfinger put his hand to his belt, as if he were afraid that Basta’s knife could call out to its master.
From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke
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