self-will

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

“My self-will had to be abandoned because my self-will was killing me,” Irsay said.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 27, 2022

It also evokes the determination, the self-will, of countless immigrants who have chosen to make and call America their home.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 16, 2021

Thus, as Cooley’s film quickens and deepens, we get a fabulous running joke about the “inner voice,” a staple of American self-will since the days of Emerson.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 21, 2019

At one point in the first novel, Outline, she remarks, “I had come to believe more and more in the virtues of passivity, and of living a life as unmarked by self-will as possible.”

From Slate • May 25, 2018

It may convince my mother that there is more than mere self-will and love of notoriety in my work.

From The War-Workers by Delafield, E.M.