reluctantly

Example Sentences

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This time round it has been reluctantly thrust into the limelight as home to international deposit organisation Euroclear, which holds some 200 billion euros of the Russian assets.

From Barron's

Penelope had to restrain the Incorrigible children from doing the same; reluctantly they obeyed, but they added their own growls and snarls from a distance.

From Literature

“I am afraid it means we ought to go,” Penelope said reluctantly.

From Literature

Having done his best to form friendships within his halls of residence, he reluctantly signed up for accommodation with four others rather than risk finding himself with no house and no-one to share it with.

From BBC

The android knows how to navigate the planet’s threats—exploding spike plants, acid-spitting eels, literal razor grass—so Dek reluctantly teams up with her to find his quarry.

From The Wall Street Journal