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How to use unwilling in a sentence

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But she was unwilling to stir up the resentment she knew was simmering in him, and she, too, remained silent.
General Bate was unwilling to exacerbate local perceptions of military tyranny.
It is simply not true that young people are unwilling to volunteer, she added.
If they are unwilling to do that, and in consequence cannot find the workers they need, then they have no-one to blame but themselves.
After last night's lusty results, dealers and buyers would be unwilling to speculate for fear of putting the mozz on the market.
Common to both was Hearts being uncompromising and unwilling simply to allow Celtic to dictate.
He had poor eye contact and was generally uncooperative and unwilling to be interviewed.
Lo and behold, some multimillion dollar settlement, so to speak, transpired and all of a sudden, the victim was unwilling to testify.
Apart from some holiday speeches at their recent congress, the Socialist Party has been unwilling to even raise a finger against his measures.
Recovery from muscle dysmorphia is very difficult because, as with anorexia nervosa, the individual is usually unwilling to admit their problem.
On this day the audience sat quietly when the second dance ended, as if quite unwilling to break the mood.
Government leaders seem uninterested or unwilling to commit to program changes and guarantees.
If the man from the Labour Party says no, he appears ungracious and unwilling to put aside political differences in the name of unity.
The board was unwilling to take on the powerful teacher union in many instances when it most mattered.
Throughout my conversation, she gave such dull and unwilling answers, as if she can't be bothered to talk to me.
Yet for some strange reason that I simply couldn't comprehend, he was distinctly unwilling to start unscrewing the doors from their hinges.
I was not unwilling to clash with him when we were in Malaysia, but feuding between two sovereign states was different.
According to Shanghai Youth Daily, most affluent locals are unwilling to be listed.
Governments seem to be unwilling to use any but the most primitive strategies.
Some have disabilities which the parents are unable or unwilling to cope with.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Their special horror is of the compulsory theme, extracted from unwilling and idealess minds.
The quarrel was in its way and faute de mieux a pleasure to both of them, which they were unwilling to relinquish.
All she there told him, ruing death for friend so young, algate sore unwilling God's rightwiseness to withsay.
Then Peter said that this was all very well, but could he carry in his arms a strongish man who was unwilling to be so carried?
In spite of my injunction he mumbled something, and I was not unwilling to hear it.
But he was aware of linker's political importance and was most unwilling to offend him.
The majority of us were unwilling to tempt fate by adopting it, and took the easier way.
The man who is overfond of anything will be unwilling to let go his hold upon it.
Once before, in the Maine woods, he had been an unwilling target, on that occasion for an overanxious deer hunter.
Cossacks had to drive the unwilling men to Manchuria at the point of the bayonet.
Thus far the fisc has been unwilling to rest satisfied with such a qualified confession.
Uncle John appeared unwilling to abandon the fishtail wenches, and countered with classical texts.
The light in his blue eyes seemed to mesmerise men, to draw them, willing or unwilling, to him.
The countrywoman's fear of the Jail nipped and bit eagerly at her unwilling heels.
To develop it I 69 replied guardedly, albeit unwilling to pose as a milksop.
Because charming Miss Grafton is willing to marry him, but he is unwilling.
He took the letter from Mr. Pyecroft's unwilling and untrustful hands and glanced it through.
And what kind of a Dutchman are you, sir, who are unwilling to do honor to the greatest of all Dutchmen?
But now, at the present moment, he was unwilling to make essay of his prowess as a cragsman.
But Malachy was unwilling to be transferred to the primatial See, and not without good reason.
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