Involuntarily

//ɪnˈvɒləntɹɪli//

"Involuntarily" in a Sentence (14 examples)

I urinate involuntarily.

Tom was involuntarily conscripted into the military.

Tom shivered involuntarily.

Maria - though she was ashamed about it later - involuntarily burst out laughing, as Tom asked her very shyly if she were interested in going to the movies with him.

Blushing is an involuntarily reaction.

When the experimental antigravity aircraft flew over the town, emitting downward thrusting pulse waves, everyone immediately below involuntarily emptied their bladder.

Returning, I had to cross before the looking-glass; my fascinated glance involuntarily explored the depth it revealed. All looked colder and darker in that visionary hollow than in reality: and the strange little figure there gazing at me, with a white face and arms specking the gloom, and glittering eyes of fear moving where all else was still, had the effect of a real spirit: I thought it like one of the tiny phantoms, half fairy, half imp, Bessie’s evening stories represented as coming out of lone, ferny dells in moors, and appearing before the eyes of belated travelers.

Tom flinched involuntarily.

I laughed involuntarily.

Tom laughed involuntarily.

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Her leg twitched involuntarily.

He involuntarily overheard the conversation.

His eyes filled with tears, as he took up the glittering lengths. Their pale gold was lovely as ever; but there was something in the touch from which he involuntarily recoiled.

Kennedy’s vocal rasp is not caused by an infection or respiratory condition. Instead, he has spasmodic dysphonia, a rare neurological condition in which the muscles that open and close his vocal cords spasm involuntarily, creating a strained or strangled quality to his speech.

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