How to Use willing in a Sentence

willing

adjective

• He was a willing participant in the crime.
• She's lending a willing hand.
• 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
• 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
• But the car built around this willing chassis is starting to show its age.
  — Joey Capparella, Car and Driver, 4 Aug. 2023
• If only his partner in crime were willing to foot the bill.
  — Edith Olmsted, The New Republic, 17 Aug. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Recruiters needed to find people willing to wear the badge.
  — Carolyn Van Houten, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2024
• Maybe the Angels fall totally out of the wild-card race the next couple of weeks, and are willing to accept just 3-4 top prospects.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2023
• But even with that training, none of them was willing to take on rebuilding stone walls.
  — Hannah Kirshner, The Atlantic, 6 Dec. 2023
• Ed is always willing to listen, to roll his sleeves up, and help solve any problem thrown his way.
  — Jennifer Maas, Variety, 30 Oct. 2023
• To catch up, Moscow has had to turn to Iran, one of the few nations willing to sell it military hardware.
  — Mary Ilyushina, Washington Post, 17 Aug. 2023
• And there’s tons of climate people who are willing to work with folks in Hollywood to get the stories right.
  — J. Clara Chan, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Mar. 2023
• There have only been moments for those with bold dreams and big ideas who are willing to take even bigger risks.
  — Ashley Cullins, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Apr. 2023
• And still, people are willing to risk paying the ultimate price for a chance at a better life.
  — Ian Pannell, ABC News, 26 Jan. 2024
• There may be more bumps along the way, but Rozier is willing to endure whatever is next.
  — Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 25 Jan. 2024
• That will mean increased wait times, but Flynn says patients are willing to wait.
  — Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN, 6 Apr. 2024
• Whatis a bit more surprising is how many were willing to share the details of their kids' conception.
  — Stephanie Sengwe, Peoplemag, 6 Apr. 2024
• Trump has asked her friend to help rehab her image, and Kardashian is willing to oblige.
  — Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 31 Oct. 2023
• But over the past decade, a mass of images has begun to emerge and institutions have become more willing to show them.
  — Julia Halperin, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2023
• The union is willing to open discussions about reducing the 162-game schedule, but not at the expense of players’ salaries.
  — Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 11 July 2023
• None was willing to entertain the idea that anyone but Israel was at fault for the Gaza bloodletting.
  — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2023
• There are new entrants willing to really buy their way in to get to the American public.
  — Cmo, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
• If the work is good, really carefully made and honed, and if the writer is willing to push to get it out there, readers will respond and the book will catch on.
  — Hazlitt, 12 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 6 May 2024