Sentence examples for rather reluctant from inspiring English sources
In the earlier version, the female assailant seems rather reluctant to commit murder.
In fact, as a visit to the museum shows, Heath Robinson was a rather reluctant humorist.
Having created what he describes as his 'country retreat' in the city, he is rather reluctant to leave.
A few dissident leaders, notably Josip Broz Tito in Yugoslavia, were rather reluctant allies; but most were pliant, perhaps out of fear of Soviet military might.
I had been in Los Angeles as a rather reluctant émigrée for about two weeks when a copy of the Guardian Weekly slid out of our mailbox.
Institutions that were afraid of making enemies in industry—like Harvard and MIT were, rather predictably, reluctant to take a public stand.
Rather than reluctant supplicants, why not be leaders, rallying fellow corporate executives to sacrifice some compensation to keep on some more employees during the downturn, and thus not putting the burden on taxpayers?
But these November and December weeks could well force the president into some decisions - or rather a reluctant acceptance of some outcomes -that he'll have a hard time explaining far into the future.
Hill was not some diehard partisan who wanted to take down Thomas, but rather a reluctant witness who felt a duty to provide officials with information that might be helpful.
Although embarrassing at the time, it helpfully portrayed Gove as a reluctant, rather than calculating, turncoat.
