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Example sentences for "unwillingly"

Lexicographically close words:
unwholesomeness; unwholsome; unwieldly; unwieldy; unwilling; unwillingness; unwind; unwinding; unwinds; unwinking
  1. Thus unwillingly was he brought to allude to the irritable and captious inhabitants of fairy land.

  2. It is well said that virtue is its own reward; and I question if duty was ever more completely recompensed, than by the audience which the reverend Abbot so unwillingly yielded to the confession of the Sub-Prior.

  3. Stunted, boyish figures shambled hither and thither, unwillingly deserting the remnants of half-eaten breakfasts, among the iron mugs and platters of the long, deal tables of the refectory.

  4. Very unwillingly Rotha did as she was told.

  5. Slowly and unwillingly and after long looking at it, Rotha laid the Swiss valley away.

  6. Unwillingly he obeyed, and when he reached home he was at once sent to the Tower a prisoner.

  7. He went perhaps "A whining schoolboy, with his satchel And shining morning face, creeping like snail Unwillingly to school.

  8. Her partner, who had been hovering near, now claimed and bore her unwillingly away, for next to being friends with Bertie was the pleasure of "riling" him by smiling icyness.

  9. Then her father most unwillingly gave her Du Meresq's letter.

  10. She further developed a jealousy of Lucy's affection for any other friend such as led to a squabble between her and her husband, and made her mother-in-law unwillingly acquiesce in the expediency of Anne's being farther off.

  11. Very unwillingly they went, and if Lady Archfield had not kept a strict watch from her coach window, they would certainly have turned back to revenge the pranks played on them.

  12. But he found conversation hardly easier with Ursula, in spite of the sullen admiration he unwillingly accorded her.

  13. That is why I was unwillingly compelled to speak to you on the subject.

  14. Her little boy of some three or four raw summers came unwillingly towards the house, diverted from his course by continual grabs at the porker’s wispy tail.

  15. For months I refused, hoping still to have some tidings of you; but at last my drudgery became so insupportable, and my means so decreased, that I unwillingly consented.

  16. Mrs Lascelles had once determined at all risks to go up; but Miss Ossulton and Phoebe had screamed, and implored her so fervently not to leave them, that she unwillingly consented to remain.

  17. Every day I wept and groaned, and if I was unwillingly overcome by sleep my lean body lay on the bare earth.

  18. So that the magician Rank has unwillingly raised the poor fisherman to be king," whispered Pedro.

  19. When you are sleeping I will be on guard, and when you are awake I will see that no harm approaches you; but I beg you not to be annoyed with me if, in trying to be of service to you, I do unwillingly cause you any annoyance.

  20. But during the dark hours of the night he had had time to think it over, and to shake off the uneasy feeling of having unwillingly misled and disappointed his European friends.

  21. Cherea tortured this woman after a cruel manner; unwillingly indeed, but because he could not help it.

  22. Unwillingly Marcia slipped into the chair beside him.

  23. The setter came fawning to her side and unwillingly dropped his prize at her feet.

  24. Heaven knows how unwillingly I have rendered it so.

  25. He was accordingly charged with treason, and Marius, who was present at the trial as an assessor, was violent against him and excited most of the rest, so that Metellus was unwillingly compelled to pronounce sentence of death against the man.

  26. The Senate made a decree that Marius should put down these disturbers, but he acted unwillingly and slowly.

  27. In all these cases the distribution by force is unwillingly suffered.

  28. Tariff legislation is primarily in the interest of a special well-to-do class, with which other citizens are compelled unwillingly to trade.

  29. Men who sail the sea Often unwillingly encounter him, Dread preyer on mankind.

  30. His emotion was too sudden and too palpable, not to be observed by those who had unwillingly called it forth, and they at once, with considerate tact, changed the conversation.

  31. Again they had recourse to their books, and were unwillingly forced to confess that I was right.

  32. She would walk a little way on the ice, but finding it too slippery, unwillingly return.

  33. I bethought me now of the conversation I had unwillingly overheard--and my heart was grateful to these my friends--but the next instant I remembered the note to Cal Davidson.

  34. I was now about to step away, but feared detection, so unwillingly heard on.

  35. And the earth was like iron; it opened unwillingly to receive the babes of the poor.

  36. When Inglesby's name should be put up, Eustis unwillingly agreed to oppose him.

  37. We therefore very unwillingly left the disorder as we found it, purposing to devote time to the work afterward.

  38. She very unwillingly gave her consent at last, but not until I had faithfully promised never to pass a night on board.


  39. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unwillingly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.