volunteer

Example Sentences

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If there is one thing conservationists and volunteers have learned over the past 12 months - it is to expect the unexpected.

From BBC

Special constables are volunteer police officers with the same powers, responsibilities and uniform as a regular officer.

From BBC

Experts said that YouGov's methodology - gathering data from volunteers who received cash rewards for their time - left it vulnerable to "bogus respondents" skewing the data.

From BBC

But don’t stop there: Nonprofits such as the Village to Village Network and Village Without Walls enlist volunteers to help seniors.

From MarketWatch

As she drifts through town, feeling suddenly shorn of her identity, she comes across a traveling circus and is somehow taken on as a volunteer for the sawing-in-half trick, which involves hiding inside a box.

From The Wall Street Journal