willingly
Example Sentences
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“Tell me, Novis—why would your mother willingly go into what was about to be a war zone?”
From Literature
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"We're already being surveilled by billions of smartphones, city camera networks and smart devices that we willingly placed in our homes."
From Barron's
The official said that if the group doesn’t willingly give up its weapons, Israel would force it to do so.
Lanky, movie-obsessed Boaz, who knew her secrets and trusted her still, who had offered up his neck willingly, and remembered it, and would still look her in the eye, would kiss her.
From Literature
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"They gave their free time willingly at Lockerbie and went back home and yet nobody knows of them," Ross said.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.