by choice

1. Deliberately, as a matter of preference. For example, No one told me to come; I'm here by choice. This expression replaced the earlier with choice, used from about 1500.

Example Sentences

After 30-plus years in advertising — comedy was my side gig — I stepped back from full-time agency leadership and went part-time by choice, finally giving my workaholism less oxygen.

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Obviously, it’s hard to glean the timetable when the experience is edited down, but it seemed like you revealed your race pretty early on and it wasn’t exactly by choice.

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He has the only squad in Spain's top flight with six slots empty - and not by choice, because he would prefer a deeper, more competitive group.

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Orange County exalts the suburb, something that L.A. has by choice and chance obliterated.

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It was President Reagan who once said that the country had always had a problem, “even in the best of times,” with “the homeless who are homeless, you might say, by choice.”

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Related Words

• deliberately 
• freely 
• intentionally 
• spontaneously 
• willingly