Sentence examples for bit of willpower from inspiring English sources

I took one bite of ClaireTweet's pie, and it took every bit of willpower I had not to polish the whole thing off.

Recently I went to watch the film in the cinema and, even as a grown-up and with a noisy Spanish lady shouting "DON'T GO IN THERE, HARRY POTTER" the whole way though, it took every bit of willpower not to run away screaming.

"For me, it takes a bit of willpower to choose the salad over the sandwich," DePaolis says.

What to order: It's easy to go overboard on baked goods, but engage every bit of willpower to order just a few -- your stomach will thank you later.

Those seven days were by far the most intense of the entire 2 months I was on the mountain and tested every bit of willpower I had within me.

"The council spent £10 million [$12.3 million] on Piccadilly Gardens on a concrete square and some plant-pots but it gave uplant-pots butple and left them to rot, when all it took to help them was a bit of willpower and empty space".

There's also Feeling Upbeat, a protein drink dubbed "a bit of extra willpower in a bottle".

Her presence — with its curious amalgam of alertness and standoffishness — is a neat bit of typecasting; Fonda provides a sort of scaffolding of willpower and disdain that props up the ambitious Brandt.

Her presence with its curious amalgam of alertness and standoffishness is a neat bit of typecasting; Fonda provides a sort of scaffolding of willpower and disdain that props up the ambitious Brandt.

The second sub-theme that related to the strength of willpower was called strategizing recovery.

It wasn't a question of willpower.