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"Reluctant" in a Sentence (19 examples)
Too long a holiday makes one reluctant to start work again.
Some soldiers were reluctant to obey the commands.
The mother was reluctant to leave her children alone.
George is reluctant to take on that difficult job.
The restraining role that the community once played is losing its force as adults become reluctant to reprimand other people's unruly children.
More Japanese are reluctant to have a child.
I am reluctant to help him.
The government is reluctant to alter its economic policy.
I'm reluctant to let myself be known in strange company.
One glance at his face told me that he was reluctant to work.
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She was reluctant to lend him the money
Surprisingly, our new dog is a reluctant ball-retriever.
They are reluctant to the inclusion of a necessity test, especially of a horizontal nature, and emphasize, instead, the importance of procedural disciplines [...].
That’s probably because you appear as someone who rarely puts himself forward, and is reluctant to teach the wisdom he has.
My son, a Canada-based IT professional who often travels to Ukraine, told me about the exhilarating atmosphere on those Ukraine-bound trains, bringing home hundreds of the unwilling refugees, mostly women and children (including the babies, born in exile on the way to meet their Ukrainian fighter fathers for the first time). The difference between Ukrainian refugees and other reluctant exiles is that Ukrainians are desperate to return.
Whence we must infer, that the least stir of tumult or rebellion against the Prince is reluctant to all the Ordinances of Heaven, is an abortive product of Hell against the pure dictates of nature […]
If pride be allowed to cause you to envy or wound the characters of such as differ from, or outshine you, or to make you reluctant to Christian reproof from your inferiors, how fearful is your guilt and danger!
There, breathless, with his digging nails he clung / Fast to the sand, lest the returning wave, / From whose reluctant roar his life he wrung, / Should suck him back to her insatiate grave [...].
Many of the inhabitants were reluctant against the measure, and are still so obstinate that they must be compelled to do their duty.
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