How to Use voluntary in a Sentence

voluntary

adjective

• He was charged with voluntary manslaughter.
• Participation in the program is completely voluntary.
• But your brain doesn’t know that – at least, the parts of your brain that are not under your voluntary control.
  — Popular Mechanics, 4 Aug. 2023
• That’s deeply messed up and would make the widespread voluntary wearing of hats even more baffling.
  — Vulture, 11 Sep. 2023
• Kirk, her boss at the time, made her departure sound less voluntary.
  — Jane Mayer, The New Yorker, 29 Feb. 2024
• Yohannes Nessibu was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter and use of a firearm in commission of a felony in the shooting of 22-year-old Henok Yohannes.
  — Omari Daniels, Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2023
• The early outs are voluntary and will not be available for crew members.
  — Alison Sider, WSJ, 29 Nov. 2023
• Burrow informed migrants that the journey was voluntary, and the bus would stop three times for gas and three times to change drivers.
  — Manuel Bojorquez, CBS News, 9 Jan. 2024
• The problem is that these commitments are vague and voluntary.
  — WIRED, 25 July 2023
• That no line can truly be drawn between the malicious and the accidental, the voluntary and the forced.
  — Nikhil Krishnan, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023
• On the West Coast, where slowing down is voluntary, compliance is just 60%.
  — Ben Tracy, CBS News, 21 Feb. 2023
• The TikTok Shop feature is not supposed to be used by minors, but the voluntary age submission process has allowed teen users to slip through the cracks.
  — Kat Tenbarge, NBC News, 9 Oct. 2023
• The process is typically voluntary, which can be a tough sell when plants are understaffed.
  — Betsy Ladyzhets, Scientific American, 30 Mar. 2023
• Stellantis added the voluntary benefit for all UAW members as part of the 2023 contract.
  — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 5 Jan. 2024
• That follows a voluntary pledge for a 30% global reduction in methane first introduced by the US and EU two years ago.
  — TIME, 11 Dec. 2023
• Ronis asked Judge David Gill to reduce the jury’s finding to voluntary manslaughter, but the judge denied the request.
  — City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Oct. 2023
• Gray, 67, pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter and was sentenced earlier this year to 11 years in state prison.
  — City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 July 2023
• The evacuation, which Israel says was voluntary, left behind only Israeli forces and a skeleton crew to care for those too sick to move.
  — Najib Jobain, Bassem Mroue, and Samy Magdy, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Nov. 2023
• All of the voluntary efforts that used to exist have essentially been, for all intents and purposes, shut down.
  — Vittoria Elliott, WIRED, 25 Mar. 2024
• There is a voluntary recall for two varieties of the Belvita Breakfast Sandwich.
  — Emily Deletter, USA TODAY, 5 July 2023
• Because reporting is voluntary, the true number of swattings across the US is likely much higher.
  — Dhruv Mehrotra, WIRED, 26 Jan. 2024
• It should be noted that some prisons do have voluntary work programs in which inmates choose to do this type of work in order to learn a skill or, in some cases, shave time off their sentences.
  — Angela L. Pagán / The Takeout, Quartz, 16 Feb. 2024
• Since the voluntary shutdown, he’s received a flood of calls and emails from people reminiscing about their memories of the chapel and concerned for its survival.
  — Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2024
• Human beings have fixed obligations to each other that are not the product of voluntary consent.
  — Gregory M. Collins, National Review, 27 Dec. 2023
• But the financial reality is that while choice sounds great, voluntary long-term care insurance is doomed to fail.
  — Howard Gleckman, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
• The evacuation, which Israel says was voluntary, left behind only Israeli troops and a small number of health workers to care for those too sick to move.
  — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 19 Nov. 2023
• Adding to the suspicion in the years following Morgan Jr.’s killing was the revelation the father pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter for killing a man in 1977.
  — Alice Yin, Chicago Tribune, 11 Sep. 2023
• Charges of voluntary manslaughter and assault by means of force likely to produce great bodily injury were filed against the two teens who attacked Diego.
  — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2023
• Mattel even put out a voluntary recall over a magnet within the toy's blue pooper scooper device.
  — Jen Juneau, Peoplemag, 24 July 2023
• Family Dollar has issued a voluntary recall of certain over-the-counter drugs and medical devices shipped to stores in 23 states.
  — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 16 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024