How to Use unwilling in a Sentence

unwilling

adjective
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  • He was an unwilling participant in the demonstration.
  • By contrast, the White House has been unwilling to rock the U.N. boat.
    — The Editors, National Review, 25 Oct. 2023
  • Or, this could be Bloom and the Sox unwilling to go to great lengths to keep their shortstop.
    — Julian McWilliams, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Dec. 2022
  • The part of her that is still unwilling to do wrong by football or her viewers.
    — Tyler R. Tynes, Los Angeles Times, 7 Jan. 2024
  • But even cities that have banned such vapes for years are unwilling — or unable — to police the sellers.
    — Nicholas Florko, STAT, 27 Jan. 2023
  • Turner is a free agent, and in line to receive the same kind of massive payday the Dodgers were unwilling to give to Seager a year ago.
    — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 9 Nov. 2022
  • People are afraid to critique their own side — and unwilling to be friends with anyone on the other side.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 9 Nov. 2022
  • Still, when Unsworth filed a defamation suit, Musk was unwilling to settle.
    — Sheelah Kolhatkar, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023
  • Your ex is unwilling to accept that Mack hasn’t been honest, and sometimes people must learn the hard way.
    — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 14 Dec. 2022
  • This makeup case is for those unwilling to pare down their routine.
    — L.a. Hubilla, Peoplemag, 24 Aug. 2023
  • The Hoosiers weren’t just unwilling to throw the ball, they were absolutely mortified to do so.
    — Andrew Gillis, cleveland, 3 Sep. 2023
  • The latter role cost him work — both then and many years later — from producers unwilling to cast the man who’d dared to play Jesus.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 8 Jan. 2024
  • In fact, Luna seems unwilling to let baby Wren leave her arms.
    — Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 1 July 2023
  • If the host is unwilling to cooperate or comes up with an excuse—’It's a private listing,’ say—that's a red flag.
    — Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 17 July 2023
  • To this night, Cassiopeia and Cepheus are unwilling prisoners of the night sky but very willing prisoners of love.
    — Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 11 Feb. 2024
  • Arab states may be unwilling to join what many of their citizens see as an occupying force in the strip.
    — Steven Simon, Foreign Affairs, 18 Oct. 2023
  • Angela appeared unwilling to give his friends a chance.
    — Stephanie Wenger, Peoplemag, 11 Dec. 2022
  • Besides, many caffeine lovers appear unwilling to kick the coffee habit no matter the price.
    — Kirk Maltais, WSJ, 14 Nov. 2022
  • But the government so far has seemed unwilling, Hamid said, perhaps because some of the accused would come from within their ranks.
    — Rebecca Tan, Washington Post, 11 Jan. 2023
  • In the meantime, here are some ways those who are unwilling or unable to deal with smartphone grocery apps can still garner savings.
    — Laura Daily, Washington Post, 17 Jan. 2023
  • Some of the gap results from parents unable or unwilling to share records with the schools, and not because their children are not immunized, Dr. Hahn said.
    — Apoorva Mandavilli, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2024
  • This type of system adds to construction costs, though, and some building owners would be unable or unwilling to pay for it.
    — Andrea Thompson, Scientific American, 22 Feb. 2023
  • The companies do this because of a slowing economy, which has led the insurance providers to be unwilling to pay for the damages.
    — Jon Stojan, USA TODAY, 19 July 2023
  • The worst thing to do is become obsolete by remaining stagnant and unwilling to learn new tricks.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
  • The people who’ve been unwilling to reach a deal on a federal policy have made every aspect of the system worse.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2023
  • If the next generation is largely unwilling to serve in the armed forces, then the nation’s future is at best uncertain.
    — WSJ, 26 Dec. 2023
  • And for now, at least, the court itself seems unable or unwilling to reform its own ethical standards.
    — Joel Mathis, The Week, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Going-to-the-Sun Road, which connects the eastern and western halves of the park, makes the area accessible for those unwilling or unable to explore the backcountry by foot.
    — Josh Laskin, Travel + Leisure, 1 Sep. 2023
  • The modern workplace, at least in the past three years, may very well have been defined by companies’ varying efforts to haul their unwilling people back to their desks.
    — Jane Thier, Fortune, 13 Jan. 2024
  • With the crisis coming to a head, Moscow appears unwilling to step between Azerbaijani forces and the defenders of Karabakh, at least for now.
    — Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Sep. 2023

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