RELUCTANCE in a Sentence

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162 example sentences for RELUCTANCE, such as:

1. Mr Spero was reluctant to ask for help.
2. She was reluctant to admit she was wrong.
3. She was reluctant to voice her suspicions.
4. She was very reluctant to admit the truth.
5. I noticed a certain reluctance among the teachers.

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 Meanings and Examples of RELUCTANCE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
reluctance
 n.  state of being reluctant; unwillingness; hesitancy in taking some action
Classic Sentence: (137 in 10 pages)
1  He foresaw so clearly the consequences of this imprudence that with considerable reluctance he decided to ask Andrew Hale for a small advance on his load.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
2  He moved in an inner world that was more beautiful than Georgia and came back to reality with reluctance.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
3  With reluctance he told us that you spent your mornings at the store and would permit no one else to do the bookkeeping.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVI
4  Even the immediate one of letting Trenor, as they drove homeward, lean a little nearer and rest his hand reassuringly on hers, cost her only a momentary shiver of reluctance.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 7
5  She doubted Mrs. Van Osburgh's reluctance, but was aware of Miss Farish's habit of ascribing her own delicacies of feeling to the persons least likely to be encumbered by them.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 8
6  It was the char-woman of the Benedick who, resting on crimson elbows, examined her with the same unflinching curiosity, the same apparent reluctance to let her pass.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 9
7  She believed in the sincerity of her friend's affection, though it sometimes showed itself in self-interested ways, and she shrank with peculiar reluctance from any risk of estranging it.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
8  Ten minutes later the two men passed out together between the gold-laced custodians of the threshold; but in the vestibule Stepney drew up with a last flare of reluctance.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 3
9  The consciousness of his half-divined reluctance had vanished.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 12
10  The car skidded, it turned about with comic reluctance, crashed into a tree, and stood tilted on a broken wheel.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
11  Anxious to know the worst, and willing, in such an emergency, to try the potency of gold he overcame his reluctance to speak to Magua.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 10
12  At first their progress was slow and guarded, as though they entered with reluctance amid the horrors of the post, or dreaded the renewal of its frightful incidents.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 18
13  A short and impressive pause succeeded, during which it was very apparent with what reluctance the multitude admitted the justice of the Mingo's claim.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 30
14  Thither Tamenund also retired, with calm composure, after a short and touching interview with Uncas; from whom the sage separated with the reluctance that a parent would quit a long lost and just recovered child.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 31
15  After exchanging a few words of further arrangement, Haley, with visible reluctance, handed over the fifty dollars to Tom, and the worthy trio separated for the night.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
Example Sentence: (25 in 2 pages)
1  I noticed a certain reluctance among the teachers.
2  This reluctance to move towards a democratic state is typical of totalitarian regimes.
3  Ministers have shown extreme reluctance to explain their position to the media.
4  His designs indicate a reluctance to conform to fashion.
5  The second aspect which can be noted is the reluctance of government sometimes to appreciate or accept possible resource implications.
6  He showed great reluctance to reveal his whereabouts.
7  Moreover the recent decisions from the Judiciary also reflect their reluctance in proceeding with the case.
8  The main reason for this reluctance is the threat of litigation for defamation.
9  She was reluctant to admit she was wrong.
10  She was very reluctant to admit the truth.
11  Mr Spero was reluctant to ask for help.
12  Don't worry if your baby seems a little reluctant to crawl or walk.
13  She was reluctant to voice her suspicions.
14  Children are sometimes understandably reluctant to wear glasses that are ugly or uncomfortable.
15  Democrats were reluctant to take on a president whose popularity ratings were historically high.