Example Sentences

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“My grandfather was unreluctantly a big part of the civil rights movement with his black players,” said grandson John Todd Wooden, 55.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2020

He gives it me unreluctantly, I know, but I am always loth to apply to him.

From New Grub Street by Gissing, George

The wretched cannot want more of life, and the happy men, men like Valerius, go unreluctantly, like well-fed guests from a banquet, to enter upon untroubled rest.

From Roads from Rome by Allinson, Anne C. E. (Anne Crosby Emery)

How cordially these endearing words sounded, to be sure, from the lips of Southern gentlemen, as they sat at Northern banquets and partook unreluctantly of Northern wine!

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 45, July, 1861 by Various

Now I know—my heart knows it, for it has felt it—that she resigns herself to me unreluctantly.

From Shirley by Brontë, Charlotte