Voluntary

//ˈvɒl.ən.tɹi//

"Voluntary" in a Sentence (17 examples)

The company appealed for people to take voluntary resignation.

That organization depends on voluntary contributions.

This organization relies entirely on voluntary donations.

He made a voluntary contribution to the school.

She did a lot of voluntary work for the Red Cross.

That company aims to reduce employee numbers by arranging a lot of retirement money for voluntary redundancies.

Participation is voluntary and free of charge.

It's not voluntary.

Donations are voluntary.

One man has been arrested and charged with the voluntary manslaughter of 25-year-old Mary Tomson.

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September 10, 1828, Nathaniel William Taylor, Sermon delivered in the Chapel of Yale College That sin or guilt pertains exclusively to voluntary action is the true principle of orthodoxy.

She fell, to lust a voluntary prey.

If a man accidentally kills another by lopping a tree, it is not voluntary manslaughter.

Wikimedia is a voluntary service.

[…] God did not work as a necessary, but a voluntary agent, intending before-hand, and decreeing with himself, that which did outwardly proceed from him.

a voluntary church, in distinction from an established or state church

And all that els was pretious and deare, / The sea unto him voluntary brings [...].

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