willingly
Example Sentences
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He’d follow me only too willingly, but I’d be taking him to his death; he was too little for this crazy plan, and for that same reason I couldn’t risk saying goodbye, either.
From Literature
We’ve spent years willingly trading privacy for convenience—sharing our locations with friends, using facial recognition to unlock phones, letting AI filters map our faces, and even allowing algorithms to track our sleep.
“Tell me, Novis—why would your mother willingly go into what was about to be a war zone?”
From Literature
"We're already being surveilled by billions of smartphones, city camera networks and smart devices that we willingly placed in our homes."
From Barron's
The official said that if the group doesn’t willingly give up its weapons, Israel would force it to do so.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
