How to Use willing in a Sentence

willing

adjective
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  • He was a willing participant in the crime.
  • She's lending a willing hand.
  • See you in 2023, God willing, and the creek don’t rise.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Dec. 2022
  • And the rocker seems to be ready and willing to do it all again.
    — Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2023
  • So the math is, how much is TP willing to spend not to feel bad?
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 5 Aug. 2023
  • The buyers are less willing to take risks than prior to the strike.
    — Wendy Lee, Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Despite this, the town is willing to embrace the big change.
    — Rachel Ventresca, Fortune, 7 June 2024
  • Many are not ready or willing to look into the mirror and face the truth.
    — Krumma Jónsdóttir, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2023
  • But in the short term, what sets a stock’s price is how much investors are willing to pay for it.
    — Stan Choe, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 May 2024
  • These are the same old Dems, in other words, but newly willing to bring the fight.
    — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2024
  • And so, do those willing to risk their lives to support her.
    — ABC News, 24 Sep. 2023
  • Those will reveal how much the team is willing to push its stars.
    — Andrew Greif, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2023
  • The friends, who have become less and less willing to leave their homes, agree to watch a movie on the TV and then meet on Zoom to talk.
    — Lore Segal, The New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2024
  • Now, the feature is rolling out to the masses – or anyone willing to pay for it.
    — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 15 Dec. 2022
  • But the car built around this willing chassis is starting to show its age.
    — Joey Capparella, Car and Driver, 4 Aug. 2023
  • When that fuller picture emerges, will the big leaguers still be willing to beat a drum?
    — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 18 Feb. 2023
  • If only his partner in crime were willing to foot the bill.
    — Edith Olmsted, The New Republic, 17 Aug. 2023
  • The person has to be found and must be willing to sign an affidavit.
    — Joe Mahr, Chicago Tribune, 13 Oct. 2024
  • But Kester said friends and neighbors are not often willing or able to do that.
    — Kay Lazar, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Dec. 2022
  • On top of being fond of the arts (not to mention a thief), Booth is willing to look past conflicts to maintain the peace.
    — Valerie Mesa, Peoplemag, 27 July 2024
  • And will people be willing to pay as much, or more, than real leather for it?
    — Quartz Staff, Quartz, 24 Mar. 2023
  • And so that, in and of itself, limits what people are willing to think of you as and what’s available to you.
    — Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Dec. 2023
  • The other four lost their big-box cameras at a time when the city was more willing to move them to other hot spots.
    — Joe Mahr, Chicago Tribune, 29 Sep. 2024
  • Some people are willing to take the risk of a side effect because the benefit of the medicine is so great.
    — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 28 Aug. 2023
  • And some team owners are once again willing to spend it far, far into the future.
    — Lindsey Adler, WSJ, 9 Dec. 2022
  • Bragg the candidate, in fact, was more than willing to talk up his legal bona fides in the matter of Trump.
    — Michael Rothfeld Emily Woo Zeller Krish Seenivasan David Mason, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2024
  • The 41-year-old was always willing to help anyone and talk, Fricker wrote.
    — Ishani Desai, Sacramento Bee, 7 Feb. 2024
  • Buck, of course, are more than willing to service these late-cycling does.
    — Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 22 Nov. 2023
  • That three-album run solidified Tyler as one of hip-hop’s best mainstream album-makers and world-builders, and fans were willing to show up for him – even if that meant waking up early on a Monday morning.
    — Eric Renner Brown, Billboard, 5 Nov. 2024
  • At home, Elisha is incredibly supportive of his family and willing to lend a hand or offer encouragement.
    — Marcus Reichley, The Arizona Republic, 4 Nov. 2024

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