willingly
Example Sentences
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After precious few nights out without our kids, we had willingly suspended our better judgment—only to be reminded, expensively, that there are better ways to signal how you feel.
I should have known Mom wouldn’t willingly swim in salt water.
From Literature
Never in his whole life had an adult believed him so willingly, so quickly.
From Literature
He’d follow me only too willingly, but I’d be taking him to his death; he was too little for this crazy plan, and for that same reason I couldn’t risk saying goodbye, either.
From Literature
We’ve spent years willingly trading privacy for convenience—sharing our locations with friends, using facial recognition to unlock phones, letting AI filters map our faces, and even allowing algorithms to track our sleep.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
