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    Use "unwilling" in a sentence

    unwilling example sentences

    unwilling


    1. I can hardly stand at the rear of the circle now, as the others are clearly unwilling to hold my hands


    2. She lay there for some minutes, unwilling to move, until the rumbling emanating from her stomach region reminded her that she’d missed a meal … better get some food inside yourself, Karalintze Thwaite


    3. Instead of turning, however, Lucy placed one unwilling foot in front of another, feeling amid the were-growl at the base of the world as if she must and without delay enter the realm of the beast


    4. When we wrestle with these other aspects of the cross and what it symbolizes, it all falls apart if we are unwilling to recognize the Godhead in the midst of it all


    5. Instead, they believe a lie and thus are shown as fools that are unknowing and unwilling to learn


    6. Saul being unwilling to utterly destroy that kind of enemy – wolves searching to destroy the weak and defenseless of Israel – is what caused Samuel the prophet to weep


    7. He was unwilling to protect his own people, and is thus considered equally a bad shepherd as the wicked priests


    8. Many of us are unwilling to allow the threat of survival to persist when even our ministry or calling or legacy are at stake


    9. ’ I replied, unwilling to confess to being a Leo as well … Joris stands, his head on one side considering me as I try to stand confidently returning his gaze


    10. You will achieve nothing by forcing your unwilling muscles where they would rather not go

    11. unwilling to stop the dance


    12. It dies away and we all stand in silence, unwilling to break the spell


    13. other person may have a very valid reason for their actions but if you are only interested in what you have to say and are unwilling to listen you will not hear their point of view


    14. The girls and ladies who he really liked were invariably unwilling or unavailable to him for long


    15. ’ I said, unwilling to believe what I think he’s trying to say … Dave? He couldn’t mean … could he?


    16. with this kind of pride is that it makes you unwilling to


    17. ’ I said, unwilling to pass on Dave’s gossip


    18. Adding the broken wing, she stood for a moment gazing at the bird unwilling to lose it


    19. A couple of cars whoosh by, the occupants clearly unwilling to take to notice of the shape of a man's torso abandoned in the cockpit of an old blue Vauxhall Astra that is wedged into greenery


    20. ' Kaitlyn and Chloe stood facing him, unwilling to take another step

    21. instead of that you run and hide like a coward, uncaring or unwilling to help


    22. His industry was paramount to their recent successes in the market and, he decided, if they were unwilling to part with him again so soon, he reconciled himself to beginning fresh with one of their rivals


    23. Regardless, they were definitely unwilling, eyeing LeCynic's black mailed guards with as much fear as they did the Rift, which hovered before them waiting to swallow them within its pulsing, black maw


    24. been unwilling to discuss what had happened


    25. Andrastus could have reached safety in the forest, but he was unwilling to leave his bullock


    26. When told that he’d misheard a word or two, Homer was unwilling to accept the possibility he’d erred


    27. The public taxes, to which they were subject, were as irregular and oppressive as the services The ancient lords, though extremely unwilling to grant, themselves, any pecuniary aid to their sovereign, easily allowed him to tallage, as they called it, their tenants, and had not knowledge enough to foresee how much this must, in the end, affect their own revenue


    28. Except for a single night she was unwilling to defile, her


    29. What the Legate found perplexing was the way in which those who uttered his name seemed unwilling to elaborate


    30. unwilling patron could have no complaint

    31. To dream that you are unable to dispose of the feces suggests that you are unwilling to let go of your emotions


    32. In Tragus’s mind, it would have to be the unwilling product of his great virility


    33. Alternatively, your dream indicates that you are unwilling to let your guard down


    34. Our manufacturers are unwilling, it seems, that even this restricted importation should be encouraged, and are afraid lest some part of these goods should be stolen out of the warehouse, and thus come into competition with their own


    35. The directors of the bank, however, would probably be unwilling to agree to the impositon of a seignorage upon the authority of a speculation which promises them no gain, but only pretends to insure them from any loss


    36. Dane studied her faded aura and whispered, “I thought you were…” He let his voice trail off, unwilling to complete the thought


    37. Golf was not only capable of controlling minds and storing ruro but he was to be the unwilling transport that would deliver the ruro to the multi-dimensional Elif


    38. -Some spirits are unwilling to cross over due to an overly strong attachment they have towards their physical homes


    39. Our clock-makers and watch-makers are, it seems, unwilling that the price of this sort of workmanship should be raised upon them by the competition of foreigners


    40. Though by restraining, in some trades, the number of apprentices which can be employed at one time, and by imposing the necessity of a long apprenticeship in all trades, they endeavour, all of them, to confine the knowledge of their respective employments to as small a number as possible ; they are unwilling, however, that any part of this small number should go abroad to instruct foreigners

    41. He is not unwilling, therefore, to serve without pay during a short campaign ; and it frequently costs the sovereign or commonwealth as little to maintain him in the field as to prepare him for it


    42. The great nobility, who had consented that the king should tallage the profits of their own tenants, were not unwilling that he should tallage likewise those of an order of men whom it was much less their interest to protect


    43. The ordinary expense of the greater part of modern governments, in time of peace, being equal, or nearly equal, to their ordinary revenue, when war comes, they are both unwilling and unable to increase their revenue in proportion to the increase of their expense


    44. They are unwilling, for fear of offending the people, who, by so great and so sudden an increase of taxes, would soon be disgusted with the war ; and they are unable, from not well knowing what taxes would be sufficient to produce the revenue wanted


    45. Carmen ate with her left hand, unwilling to let loose of Alex for one second


    46. Any politician who is either unwilling or (unable) to govern objectively; that is to say, in accordance with the requirements of public office, should step down


    47. customs and manners of immigrants…no less…(notably) their language… when that nation is unable or unwilling to preserve the integrity of its own (besieged) culture…(especially) its language…once that nation begins to embrace globalist (sic) designs, such intentions must inevitably sound the death knell of that nation as it was formerly understood…


    48. Kay turned her head away, hearing the pain saturated in that one word, unwilling to look in the grey-green eyes which reminded her of the rolling ocean waves


    49. I have encountered a number of practicing Christians over the years who are (seemingly) unable to resolve religious ―questions‖ such as the Immaculate Conception, the Assumption or Transubstantiation, for example; considering such (doctrinal) propositions set forth by the church as operating outside the prescribing (rational) limits otherwise informed by Reason, who are unwilling to contest, however, the Incarnation, Resurrection and the Holy Trinity as matters of Faith


    50. ‖ A society that is either unable or unwilling to properly reconcile the Past with the Present, or has historical axes to grind, however, cannot properly evolve into something more meaningful














































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    Synonyms for "unwilling"

    unwilling ordered forced grudging

    "unwilling" definitions

    not disposed or inclined toward


    in spite of contrary volition