by choice

idiom

variants or less commonly out of choice

: because one wants to

I live here by choice.

No one forced them to do it. They acted out of choice.

Examples of by choice in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Biden can go down in history as the man who, admittedly not by choice, helped Trump or the man who gave up power to save his country. —Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, 28 June 2024

Like the Roman Republic did, the United States governs overseas territories through republican institutions; like Rome, as e pluribus unum, the Latin motto on the U.S. dollar bill, suggests, Washington prefers national unity to imperial diversity, encouraging assimilation by choice. —Michael Fontaine, Foreign Affairs, 15 Feb. 2016

Some of the young soldiers of the Israel Defense Forces’ Unit 414 were there by choice, others completing their mandatory military service after high school. —Ines De La Cuetara, ABC News, 28 June 2024

Thornburg has always sought out spice, ordering El Jefe wings from Fire On The Mountain by choice and eating raw hot peppers straight from the garden. —Lily O'Neill, The Denver Post, 27 June 2024