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Involuntarily in a sentence
Involuntarily meaning
In an involuntary manner; done without conscious thought.
Synonyms of Involuntarily
Using Involuntarily
- The main meaning on this page is: In an involuntary manner; done without conscious thought.
- Useful related words include: voluntarily.
- In the example corpus, involuntarily often appears in combinations such as: involuntarily committed, was involuntarily, and involuntarily.
Context around Involuntarily
- Average sentence length in these examples: 29.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 11 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Involuntarily
- In this selection, "involuntarily" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 29.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, begins, players, force, committed, jumping and disappeared stand out and add context to how "involuntarily" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include advised the involuntarily returning immigrants and and was involuntarily committed for. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "involuntarily" sits close to words such as aarp, absconding and accretion, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with involuntarily
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
My extremities turned icy and involuntarily shivers racked my body. (10 words)
Homeless New Yorkers with chronic and untreated mental illness are involuntarily hospitalized. (12 words)
You know when you think about your favorite person in the world and you kinda just involuntarily smile? (18 words)
Thomas said “to a certain extent” he was willing to consider having some of those beds open for people who are involuntarily placed, some of which could go to people forced into recovery and some of which to people in court-ordered wellness plans. (44 words)
An opposing viewpoint of this idea is that a Pentecostal in Nigeria sees everyone as a potential enemy who, even when they are not consciously involved in bringing them down, could be recruited involuntarily by a demonic power to harm them. (41 words)
He told me that during an argument with Stefan Posch he cursed several times in French and that he involuntarily spat during a torrent of words and great excitement,” said Eberl, who said it didn’t change the incident. (39 words)
You know when you think about your favorite person in the world and you kinda just involuntarily smile? (18 words)
Example sentences (20)
An investigative reporter, Dan Vasser (), begins involuntarily jumping through time and quickly learns that each time jump brings him to someone in need.
At an earlier custody hearing, lawyers “addressed the elephant in the room” — that Fravel was the last person to see Kingsbury before she “involuntarily” disappeared, Fox News said, citing police.
Homeless New Yorkers with chronic and untreated mental illness are involuntarily hospitalized.
My extremities turned icy and involuntarily shivers racked my body.
New York Mayor Eric Adams is taking a different, albeit controversial, approach: directing law enforcement and emergency response teams to involuntarily hospitalize people who are unhoused and mentally ill if they are a danger to themselves or others.
Palmeter had been involved in a 2016 domestic violence incident that did not lead to an arrest and was involuntarily committed for a 72-hour mental health examination the following year.
Players involuntarily participate in Murkoff’s “immoral experiments,” which test “sophisticated methods of brainwashing and Players must complete trials and collect documents along the way that can help prove Murkoff’s misconduct.
The original arrangement began in 2013, after she was involuntarily committed after multiple run-ins with the law starting a year earlier.
Thomas said “to a certain extent” he was willing to consider having some of those beds open for people who are involuntarily placed, some of which could go to people forced into recovery and some of which to people in court-ordered wellness plans.
Through KGW’s Uncommitted series, reporters have explored troubling gaps in Oregon’s mental health system, showing how high state standards can make it difficult to force involuntarily mental health treatment.
You know when you think about your favorite person in the world and you kinda just involuntarily smile?
A U.S. Supreme Court case, Sell v. United States, allows states to involuntarily medicate people in custody if certain conditions are met.
It does not recognise women, men and children who have involuntarily fled their home countries to escape armed conflicts, poor economic policies or natural disasters.
New York has sent about 130 people per week, involuntarily, to hospitals for psychiatric evaluation since May as part of a plan by Mayor Eric Adams to treat people who are unable to meet their basic needs.
Under that act, parents can ask for a court protection order and involuntarily commit their child under 18 to a detox and stabilization safe house for up to 15 days.
An opposing viewpoint of this idea is that a Pentecostal in Nigeria sees everyone as a potential enemy who, even when they are not consciously involved in bringing them down, could be recruited involuntarily by a demonic power to harm them.
Bright said he was "involuntarily transferred" to the National Institutes of Health after he limited the use of chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine, a drug touted by Mr. Trump.
Furthermore, many products from these brands are produced in China, but factory workers are either choosing to stay home or are sent home involuntarily from their workplaces, which has led to a major disruption in the supply chain.
He further advised the involuntarily returning immigrants to prepare to be disappointed, as persons on whom they could once lean on for assistance may suddenly turn their backs on them.
He told me that during an argument with Stefan Posch he cursed several times in French and that he involuntarily spat during a torrent of words and great excitement,” said Eberl, who said it didn’t change the incident.
Common combinations with involuntarily
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- involuntarily committed 11×
- was involuntarily 7×
- and involuntarily 4×
- to involuntarily 4×
- been involuntarily 4×
- involuntarily celibate 4×
- or involuntarily 4×
- are involuntarily 3×
- the involuntarily 3×
- involuntarily held 3×