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Example sentences for "willingly"

Lexicographically close words:
willin; willing; willinge; willinger; willinglie; willingness; willna; willow; willowed; willows
  1. I saw her jump into the chaise myself; and she went willingly enough, though he won't believe it.

  2. Or, do you willingly forsake its delights, to live the life of hopeless recollection?

  3. Lady Mary willingly promised, and I dare say as readily forgot it the very next instant.

  4. The writer of these paragraphs will never willingly violate the just conditions of criticism.

  5. But the noise and dust having subsided, there is left us, of those very times, works which men will not willingly let die.

  6. His was almighty power;(451) he was the author of nature; he ruled all things with law; and the world willingly obeyed his will.

  7. With this view hang together the convictions that virtue can be taught, that all virtue in truth is only one, and that no one is willingly wicked, but only through ignorance.

  8. Many in consequence of these edicts suffered willingly terrible torments: many others at first gave way.

  9. Plato, and his doctrine that no one is willingly wicked.

  10. In his simplicity, in his innate disposition to faith, he was inclined to willingly believe anything supernatural, especially if connected with religion.

  11. This was all the information that Mr. Berners could get from the honest quarryman, who would willingly have given him more had he possessed it.

  12. Sybil very willingly left the company of the robbers, and followed her hostess to the chamber above.

  13. It was reasonably to be expected that these young people would, on Christmas-day, willingly exchange the hotel parlor and the society of strangers, for the drawing-room at Black Hall and the company of their friends.

  14. Florus willingly acceded to this request, and sketched a brilliant picture of the administrative talent, the learning, and the capability of the Emperor.

  15. How often when I see a sturdy porter I would willingly change places with him!

  16. I am on my way home, and willingly or by force you must come with me.

  17. I have a carriage, and if you will not come willingly I shall employ force.

  18. Wait for your companion, and bring him to me, willingly or by force, to drink tea.

  19. In private life he played willingly enough the role of querulous benefactor.

  20. In Spain, however, Sertorius represented the party he would most willingly have embraced; but Caesar had a horror of civil wars.

  21. He acknowledged his error, submitted willingly to the orders of his colleague, and thus restored, by his own voluntary act, the unity of the command.

  22. After the late hours we had kept on the last evening, most of us would willingly have prolonged our slumbers beyond the time previously fixed for setting out upon our return to Castle-hill.

  23. To such narratives Johnny would willingly listen by the hour.

  24. And, now that he wore his own head again, one of the prettiest of the young princesses willingly agreed to marry him; so the wedding ceremony was performed amidst great rejoicing.

  25. The Wizard thought on the matter for three days, but nowhere could he think of a young and beautiful princess who would willingly part with her big toe--even that he might grow to be as big as he wished.

  26. He took some one with him, friend or servant, armed; and to this day you will not find Italians willingly walk alone at night.

  27. Understand--"Thy people shall offer themselves willingly in the day of conflict in holy clothing, in their best array, in their best arms and accoutrements.

  28. For Guido was indeed willingly dishonoured; because to his other dishonours he added these disgraces also, even by his own wrongdoing.

  29. If I could only bring it about, I would more willingly be your wife than your servant.

  30. I would willingly have given the task to abler hands.

  31. Willingly gets drunk, but his chief passion is travel.

  32. We would not willingly speak of a person being "fat" in his presence.

  33. We saw that we use the word Spartan to describe any very severe discipline, or a person who willingly uses such discipline for himself.

  34. I am sure you never did anything willingly to offend me.

  35. In short, after hearing, for near an hour, every malicious insinuation which a fertile genius could invent, we took our leave, and separated as persons who would never willingly meet again.

  36. Indeed I shall not," answered Amelia, "though I believe you only rally me; I hope you have a better opinion of me than to think I would go willingly into the company of a man who had an improper liking for me.

  37. I am convinced you would not willingly sup from me.

  38. I am sure I would willingly be his bail; but I know my bail would not be taken for that sum.

  39. She would, indeed, have much more willingly sat up herself, but the delicacy of her own mind assured her that Booth would not thank her for the compliment.

  40. The doctor had really not so much money in town as Booth's debt amounted to, and therefore, though he would otherwise very willingly have paid it, he was forced to give bail to the action.

  41. As she had truly observed, we were both conventional; conventionality was part of the price we had willingly paid for membership in that rarer world we had both achieved.

  42. I would willingly be ruined a third time, and never be set up at all, if I could only take a real interest in any earthly thing, even in what I am going to have for dinner.

  43. He did not like me to leave off my profession, he said, and I would have gone out willingly with a rake and a basket to earn my day's wages as a scavenger in the streets if he had only said it was a pleasant life.

  44. For such an object she felt she would willingly forego the patronage of Mrs. Lascelles, the vassalage of Uncle Joseph, home, position, prospects!

  45. Picard, who carried no notes of any description in his pockets, and whose heart seldom beat unless he walked fast up-hill, agreed willingly to the baronet's proposition.

  46. There was obvious invitation in her gesture, while she removed the intrusive fold, and Frank dropped willingly enough into that vacant seat.

  47. That gentleman was indeed strolling leisurely into the yard, apparently with no particular object, for he strolled out again willingly enough at the invitation of his two friends.

  48. Among this lagging race of frosty grovellers he might still have risen into eminence by producing something which "they should not willingly let die.

  49. At last Michaelmas arrived; but the lady had no inclination to return to the sullen gloom of her husband's habitation, and therefore very willingly forgot her promise.

  50. Here he was carried in, and old Mary shook her head at the scent of the spirits, but assisted willingly till my charge was laid upon the bed, the cabman and his companion dismissed, and then the doctor was fetched.

  51. Johnson at his late visits to this lady, which was like being e secretioribus consiliis, I willingly drank cup after cup, as if it had been the Heliconian spring.

  52. I allow you may have pleasure from writing, after it is over, if you have written well; but you don't go willingly to it again.

  53. People in general do not willingly read, if they can have any thing else to amuse them.

  54. How he came there we were puzzled to know, but I do not believe he ever willingly troubled a sleigh again.


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