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

While plenty of older Americans are working good jobs later into life by choice, others have struggled to find their place in the workforce. —Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 14 Apr. 2024

Simply put, women in the U.S. are having fewer children, whether by choice or by circumstance, or deciding not to have any at all. —Riley Robinson, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Mar. 2024

Without this process, the likely result would be a customer paralyzed by choice, bamboozled by an eye-wateringly expensive blank canvas. —Alistair Charlton, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024

For those overwhelmed by choice, the ten-piece omakase menu is the perfect decision. —Jacqueline Dole, Travel + Leisure, 19 Mar. 2024

Employers can still provide lunch breaks and rest periods by choice, according to Pratt. —Chris Sims, The Courier-Journal, 4 Mar. 2024

Her character, Elodie, is being groomed to become a princess, though not by choice. —David Fear, Rolling Stone, 7 Mar. 2024

At the time, Australian police dismissed her concerns, insisting that her mother, Marion Barter, had disappeared by choice, and wanted nothing to do with her family. —Hilary Whiteman, CNN, 2 Mar. 2024

The share of older Americans who are working, by choice or necessity, has doubled in the past 35 years, according to a report released Thursday by the Pew Research Center. —Abha Bhattarai, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2023