Sentence examples for were involuntarily from inspiring English sources
adverb
In an involuntary manner; done without conscious thought.
- Her leg twitched involuntarily.
In 2013 over 50m people were involuntarily displaced worldwide, of which 17m were refugees and only 1.2m asylum seekers.
The Haitians were involuntarily returned to Haiti, which U.S. military forces had, once again, invaded, reinstating the deposed and weakened Aristide.
Then, in 1964, while preparing for a tour of the Soviet Union, he found that the fourth and fifth fingers of his right hand were involuntarily curling up.
Of the roughly 800 inmates who were evaluated under the so-called sexually violent predator initiative, 127 were involuntarily admitted to psychiatric hospitals.
A dozen carp, weighing 20 pounds each, were "involuntarily evacuated," as Mr. Benepe put it, when the pond flooded, and landed in a spillway outside the pond.
Over the last two years, 92 people in Massachusetts who were involuntarily confined for psychiatric reasons were screened out when they tried to obtain a gun license, according to the State Department of Mental Health.
Others are involuntarily unemployed.
Their grandchildren are involuntarily paying the bill, or will be.
After several voluntary hospitalizations, she was involuntarily committed.
In certain circumstances, people can be involuntarily quarantined.
Most of the time I'm involuntarily happy.
