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How to use reluctantly in a sentence

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We reluctantly conclude that we must regard the resulting convictions as unsafe.
So with the number of options diminishing, and last orders long since called, we reluctantly about-faced and came out the same way.
She reluctantly jabbed a fork into some beans, carefully avoiding the ragged edges of tin.
Then folding the map away, he instructed her to start driving again and Andrea reluctantly acquiesced.
The police reluctantly acquiesced to the proposals given no alternatives were offered.
He jiggles the key in the lock on the front door, trying to persuade the tumblers to shift, which they finally do, reluctantly.
But a lunch date with Marco beckoned, so reluctantly, we agreed to put Dali off until our next trip to the capital.
When he realized his mouth was moving over the pulsing jugular of her slender throat, he pulled away reluctantly.
At various times, Roosevelt had the Russian czar, the German kaiser, and the hypersensitive Japanese eating out of his hand, however reluctantly.
Henri reluctantly agreed, wanting to return to his home ere it was evening, and urged his sister to hurry.
The last mile was a track, and we had rather dawdled, so reluctantly gave the pub a miss.
After a lengthy plea from a social worker, the judge reluctantly agrees to allow the boy to leave.
In need of company and cash, she reluctantly agrees to permit a film crew to shoot on her premises.
This is often a last recourse, only reluctantly resorted to when a party is clearly concealing income.
The second girl reluctantly produced a pack of cigarettes from her knapsack and offered one to the man.
Inefficient or poorly located facilities are closed, sometimes reluctantly, by a board of directors.
By the 1880s, however, there were quite a number of women in the profession and the Association reluctantly admitted them as members.
The judge in the case reluctantly decided to drop the charges, citing a lack of evidence.
The woman paused, then nodded reluctantly, opening her door wider, letting them in.
The scared young man reluctantly took the note home to his mother, dreading the impending punishment.
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Examples from Classical Literature
From this round of cordiality he was reluctantly torn and conducted to the platform.
Bidden to open the door, the Mongolian reluctantly did so and Faraday was admitted.
Slowly and reluctantly, the sailors took their places, for Robert was a favorite with them.
Gladys had come reluctantly, and only because old Van Duyn had given her orders to that effect by telegraph.
Craven stood for the past, he was a link with the life the Francophile Arab was reluctantly surrendering.
On the following morning she reluctantly consented to take the train as far as northallerton.
Farrell followed him reluctantly outside into a miasmic desolation more depressing than he could have imagined.
I had such a severe headache that I rang up Mrs. Delano and reluctantly begged to be excused.
Slowly and reluctantly I yielded to the fascinations of Florence Lascelles.
But this was not to be without displeasing her hostesses, and she reluctantly submitted.
Swanson reluctantly followed him through the tangled aisles of stainless steel columns and tanks.
At this broad hint, the curious crowd reluctantly withdrew, and left the trio alone at the pesthouse threshold.
They did so, reluctantly, moving step by step as the marching band behind them crashed rhythmically along.
The youth sat down as directed, but reluctantly and with diffidence.
The South had begun by agreeing reluctantly to the enslavement of men.
Dorothy came reluctantly, haunted with a forebode of impending griefs.
There was a front-page editorial reluctantly announcing a price increase.
And why is her own reliance on my honour so late and so reluctantly shown?
May, sidling reluctantly toward the hall, still watched her mother.
He hefted it carefully, reluctantly putting it back on the table.
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