How to Use reluctantly in a Sentence

reluctantly

adverb
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  • At The Stake — Clint reluctantly celebrates with a group of fans in the city.
    — John Archer, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024
  • When Sam's mother leaves town, Palmer reluctantly steps in to care for the boy.
    — Brooke Lefferts, Star Tribune, 27 Jan. 2021
  • The one who does help her out reluctantly is a high earner.
    — Amy Dickinson, oregonlive, 9 May 2023
  • Through a mutual friend, Ashley reluctantly agreed to look at the script, liked it, and agreed to come in and take over the show.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Nov. 2023
  • My father, with nowhere else to go, reluctantly cut his hair back down to an Afro.
    — Safiya Sinclair, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023
  • Priscilla didn't want to have anything to do with him but reluctantly agreed to meet the man who broke her heart decades ago.
    — Diane Herbst, Peoplemag, 15 Feb. 2023
  • Cephus ducks the Vietnam draft and does time in prison, then reluctantly skips town and heads north, to the coldhearted streets of New York.
    — The New Yorker, 14 June 2024
  • With Luke at the top of the shaft, ready to pull them out, Boro reluctantly lifts Emma to her father's awaiting hands to be pulled to freedom.
    — Keith Nelson, Men's Health, 28 May 2023
  • The video shows Jackson reluctantly standing up and moving away from the girl.
    — Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News, 15 Aug. 2023
  • John reluctantly conceded the split meant Paul had been right about Klein all along.
    — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 2 Apr. 2023
  • Amat reluctantly agrees to give the group of women a ride into town.
    — Claire Franken, TVLine, 26 June 2024
  • Meredith drives up and reluctantly joins in the snow removal.
    — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 6 Sep. 2023
  • At his wife’s urging, Matt reluctantly agrees to drive the kids to school, a task he’s long neglected, and that’s when the trouble begins.
    — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Aug. 2023
  • People will tune in, idly, reluctantly, with half an eye on something else.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2023
  • Body fat helped ensure survival, and that’s why the body loves stored fat and surrenders it reluctantly.
    — Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 27 June 2024
  • Adam reluctantly agrees to stay with Knight while his mother is missing.
    — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 2 May 2023
  • The Allied powers who reluctantly agreed to this were themselves, by any measure, guilty of that very crime in their recent pasts.
    — James Robins, The New Republic, 23 Sep. 2020
  • But the Buccaneers, whose bus from their hotel to the stadium was led by a snowplow, had to show up, some rather reluctantly.
    — Eric Branch, SFChronicle.com, 23 Jan. 2021
  • The brother reluctantly agreed, and Virden soon figured out the mechanism to get the door open.
    — The Arizona Republic, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Afraid of having people coming in and out of the house and possibly infecting him, Laura reluctantly told the aides to take a break for a while.
    — Barry J. Jacobs, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Sep. 2020
  • This led to a moment in the season two finale where Cameron reluctantly stopped flossing in order to FaceTime with his son.
    — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Joel reluctantly agrees to work with Henry to get them all out of the metropolis unharmed.
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 11 Feb. 2023
  • This time, the celebrated sleuth is reluctantly brought to a haunted Italian palazzo for a séance when one of the guests is murdered.
    — Joey Morona, cleveland, 31 Aug. 2023
  • The six unlikely heroes reluctantly take on the task of bringing the only vaccine against the plague of idiots to a safe place, where Norway’s smartest minds have sought refuge.
    — Annika Pham, Variety, 7 Apr. 2024
  • Packers players reluctantly returned to the field for the point-after kick in a surreal scene.
    — Jr Radcliffe, Journal Sentinel, 28 Oct. 2022
  • Just a few weeks after giving birth to baby Joy, Jean is reluctantly back at work with a new boss (played by Hannah Gadsby).
    — Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 17 Sep. 2023
  • That doesn’t mean the celebrity circus that Ohtani attracts — reluctantly — has been without drawbacks for the Dodgers this season.
    — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2024
  • But their numbers soared when the conflict began and millions of refugees fled Ukraine, many of them reluctantly leaving behind their pets.
    — Vivien Fellegi, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Apr. 2024
  • The woman allegedly saw a handgun when entering the home and reluctantly agreed to change.
    — Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Thirty minutes after debating what to do and calling her parents for backup, Bauder reluctantly opened the cap of her emergency EpiPen and raised the needle above her thigh.
    — Natallie Rocha, The Mercury News, 11 Oct. 2024

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