Example Sentences

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We volitionally pump it up and think it's the only way to function.

From Salon • Apr. 4, 2020

“There is almost nothing you can do to volitionally lower your oxygen saturation,” Dr. Frank Longano, DOC’s deputy medical director, told a DOC investigator after reviewing Johnson’s medical records.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 13, 2019

“It even gave, volitionally, what he did not ask for, what he did not even know existed.”

From New York Times • Oct. 16, 2018

Sometimes the missing hand feels “locked” in a painfully awkward cramp that can be excruciating, and the patient cannot volitionally move the phantom.

From Scientific American • Aug. 18, 2011

A volitionally, purposively active being is always a seeker as well as a doer.

From The Will to Doubt An essay in philosophy for the general thinker by Lloyd, Alfred H.