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Willingly in a sentence
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Willingly meaning
Of one’s own free will; freely and spontaneously.
Synonyms of Willingly
Using Willingly
- The main meaning on this page is: Of one’s own free will; freely and spontaneously.
- Useful related words include: volitionally, unwillingly.
- In the example corpus, willingly often appears in combinations such as: and willingly, to willingly, would willingly.
Context around Willingly
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 10 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Willingly
- In this selection, "willingly" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, data, erso, anything, share, joined and collapse stand out and add context to how "willingly" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include appeared to willingly collapse onto and attractive and willingly pay for. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "willingly" sits close to words such as almighty, antarctic and bing, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with willingly
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Airlines release a lot of customer data willingly and knowingly to third parties. (13 words)
Room 1: A thoroughly morally reprehensible being, who has willingly committed numerous morally abhorrent acts. (15 words)
ExxonMobil is not going to give up anything willingly, the Guyanese people will have to force it. (17 words)
How can we blame those who willingly, or were forced by two decades of layoffs or closures, to seek out more stable careers that give them some breathing room in one of the most expensive housing markets in the nation? (40 words)
His sister had recently given him a bottle of Ativan pills to cope with personal stress, including the recent separation, though Faber does not believe that her son would have vanished willingly. (32 words)
Regarding the economic issues—something he has always found boring and willingly delegates—he has been overly optimistic, even inspired by the prospect of an economic breakthrough, while underestimating long-term risks. (32 words)
How can we blame those who willingly, or were forced by two decades of layoffs or closures, to seek out more stable careers that give them some breathing room in one of the most expensive housing markets in the nation? (40 words)
Example sentences (20)
Adventure dogs are a special breed, and if you share your life with one, I hope you too can reap the lessons and wisdom they subtly and willingly share with us.
Airlines release a lot of customer data willingly and knowingly to third parties.
And, of course, now that we, willingly and trustfully handed over the reigns of our wallets to them, they have an economic incentive as well.
As the Empire rose to power, the brilliant engineer Galen Erso willingly joined the historic Death Star project with good intentions in mind.
By the time more officers arrived, the man appeared to willingly collapse onto the ground as police fitted him with handcuffs.
ExxonMobil is not going to give up anything willingly, the Guyanese people will have to force it.
For whatever reason, Gideon settled on an invalid claim to the blade and allowed the Mandalorian people to willingly flee from his tyrannical obliteration of Mandalore.
Having captured and drugged Batman for days, Deacon Blackfire is able to mold the Dark Knight's mind so that Batman willingly joins Blackfire's crusade to conquer Gotham.
His sister had recently given him a bottle of Ativan pills to cope with personal stress, including the recent separation, though Faber does not believe that her son would have vanished willingly.
How can we blame those who willingly, or were forced by two decades of layoffs or closures, to seek out more stable careers that give them some breathing room in one of the most expensive housing markets in the nation?
If you're a regular user of TikTok, you may have become familiar with the online retail site Temu — willingly or otherwise.
In his short tenure, McCarthy almost willingly allowed himself to be held hostage by the Trumpist faction of his group.
It seems unlikely that so many millions would willingly sit through an over 3 hour spectacle that functions primarily to shame them.
Jason willingly engaged in immoral acts, and Bucky was brainwashed into serving sinister intentions and desired strongly to redeem himself after his liberation.
Mr MacDonald said that, surely if this were true, "you would want to unburden yourself" and willingly answer the police questions.
Of course, the Newmans won’t guess what actually happened to Nikki, who’ll be busy handing over herself willingly to Jordan at a run-down cabin.
Police said Smerk even willingly gave police additional DNA swabs before they handed him their business cards and went back to their hotel.
Regarding the economic issues—something he has always found boring and willingly delegates—he has been overly optimistic, even inspired by the prospect of an economic breakthrough, while underestimating long-term risks.
Room 1: A thoroughly morally reprehensible being, who has willingly committed numerous morally abhorrent acts.
She believes most haters are too scared to admit they find her attractive and willingly pay for her content.
Common combinations with willingly
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- and willingly 12×
- to willingly 10×
- would willingly 10×
- willingly and 8×
- who willingly 8×
- willingly to 8×
- he willingly 8×
- willingly or 7×
- we willingly 4×
- willingly gave 4×