Sentence examples similar to hardly willingly from inspiring English sources
Still, I could hardly believe she willingly boarded (more than once) one of those vessels built for thousands.
Seneca might have slashed his own wrists, but since Nero had sentenced him to death he was hardly ending his life willingly.
Not many of her classmates had chosen similar paths, Gnesdiloff says, but she is hardly the only Princetonian who willingly went to work in a conflict zone when it would have been just as easy to do something else.
It is hardly surprising that commuters who can afford it willingly pay extra to avoid traffic jams and inconvenience.
The question remains, though, and grows larger with each passing generation: if drug addiction is so bad – and its downsides are hardly a secret – why do otherwise rational people so often walk willingly into its feverish embrace?
Frank hardly expects credit for trying to clean up a rotten system, and willingly accepts his pariah status, but even he becomes frustrated at how difficult it is to break through the walls of fear, resistance and apathy.
It was hardly shocking that when people got the rare opportunity to reduce competition, many willingly grabbed it.
Curators are forever lamenting, after all, that visitors to their institutions willingly line up for hours to see a traveling exhibition that includes paintings by a particular artist yet give hardly more than a passing glance to paintings by the same artist that hang day-in and day-out on the museum's walls.
Plaintiffs willingly agreed.
