How to Use volunteer in a Sentence

volunteer

1 of 3 noun

• The school was built by volunteers.
• Volunteers are needed to help with the bake sale.
• This year there were 12 fair volunteers, down from a peak of 18.
  — Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 15 Jan. 2024
• The evening got under way, and a volunteer from Bensonhurst named Rosanne Li went to the front of the room.
  — Jasper Lo, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2023
• In the meantime, two groups of volunteers are working to track the missing.
  — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 18 Aug. 2023
• The first sign of Ilya was spotted by a volunteer, who found his shoes beside a creek that cuts through the fields.
  — Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA TODAY, 26 July 2023
• And when a beloved lay volunteer was murdered, the sisters were shaken deeply.
  — Kaya Laterman, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2023
• Giving the Basics logged more than 7,400 volunteer hours last year alone.
  — David Frese, Kansas City Star, 31 Jan. 2024
• Scores of people, including a dozen or so from the cathedral, signed up to volunteer.
  — Frank E. Lockwood, Arkansas Online, 4 Nov. 2023
• Her mother, Ann, was a full-time parent, and her father, Charles, was a lawyer and a volunteer preacher.
  — Anna Wiener, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023
• Give it to yourself, your friends, your family, give it to strangers: volunteer, read books, go see art.
  — Shon Faye, Vogue, 19 Mar. 2023
• For more information or to sign up to volunteer, go to OceanBeachSanDiego.com.
  — Emily Alvarenga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Apr. 2023
• Gregg jumped into action, mopping and drying the floor, making sure that the staff and volunteers serving the food were kept safe.
  — Katcy Stephan, Variety, 23 Dec. 2023
• The first thing was to put up Facebook and Instagram posts, looking for volunteers.
  — David Wallace-Wells, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2023
• Thank you to all of the staff and volunteers that have made this multi-agency effort possible.
  — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 14 Feb. 2024
• Gross said the list, which is maintained online, is updated by a volunteer who checks news alerts.
  — Emily Alpert Reyes, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2023
• Every year, each town the ride camps in is a big part of the event, offering space and volunteers and, in turn, getting grants from Cycle Oregon.
  — oregonlive, 12 Sep. 2023
• Since January, the project has given away more than 600 gowns, and volunteers are still counting.
  — Stephanie Lam, The Mercury News, 31 Mar. 2024
• The search will continue, and volunteers are not needed at this time, according to the release.
  — Remington Miller, Arkansas Online, 17 May 2023
• Mykola was back from a deployment in Eastern Ukraine, while Dmytro had served in the army and was now a volunteer for the military in Odesa.
  — Luke Johnson, The New Republic, 26 July 2023
• On Sunday morning most of the cleanup was complete, but the volunteers still had to load canopies, pack up signs and take things to a storage facility.
  — Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Mar. 2024
• Only Star Fraud has gone further, the researchers said, and now such groups have many thousands of online volunteers to draw from.
  — Joseph Menn, Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2023
• Many of the volunteers involved in the first fair were residents of Laurel Canyon, a haven for left-leaning creatives in the Hollywood hills.
  — Gillian Bagwell, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Sep. 2023
• Two volunteers here in recent days helped search for people believed to be missing at sea.
  — Samantha Schmidt, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2023
• While the event is four-days long, the planning process takes around a year and is dependent upon a team of volunteers, according to Forsberg.
  — Erin Yarnall, Chicago Tribune, 31 Aug. 2023
• Now with the help of around 40 volunteers, their focus has since shifted to delivering meals to thousands of migrants around the city.
  — Rachel Rosenbaum, ABC News, 8 Aug. 2023
• The county and police department had used infrared drones and bloodhound teams in their search, along with dozens of volunteers.
  — Kia Fatahi, CNN, 25 Mar. 2023
• On election night, Molina had about a dozen volunteers working the phones at her campaign office; Huizar had over 60.
  — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2023
• As part of the original study, these volunteers had agreed to wear activity trackers for a week.
  — Ed Cara / Gizmodo, Quartz, 11 Apr. 2024
• If an Asian hornet lands, volunteers attach tinsel streamers to its back to monitor its flight path and trace it back to its nest.
  — Frankie Adkins, WIRED, 10 Apr. 2024

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volunteer

2 of 3 verb

• He would not volunteer any information about her whereabouts.
• Our son volunteered for military service.
• To volunteer with Lasagna Love or to request a meal, visit: lasagnalove.org.
  — Theresa Cisneros, Orange County Register, 12 Apr. 2024
• In March, the pair volunteered with a New York City food nonprofit as part of the initiative.
  — Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 23 Aug. 2023
• The elite recruit who volunteered his time with the school’s special needs students.
  — Nick Alvarez | [e-mail], al, 9 Mar. 2023
• How to volunteer Here are the dates and locations of river, lake and park cleanups in metro Detroit this spring.
  — Bill Laytner, Detroit Free Press, 11 Apr. 2024
• For a lot of us, asking for help is hard to do so to have people to volunteer without having to ask is huge.
  — Brittney Nanton, Essence, 10 Oct. 2023
• Five women who sell their products in Screws and Sparkles volunteered to help Martinez run the store.
  — Alexandra Hardle, The Arizona Republic, 27 Feb. 2024
• The dude was dealing with PTSD; the only difference is the patients had to volunteer.
  — Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2023
• Within an hour, someone had volunteered to get the shipment to the airport.
  — Helen Li, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2023
• The Community Notes system is made up of X users who volunteer to fact-check posts on the site.
  — WIRED, 11 Oct. 2023
• The porters who work in this gorilla habitat volunteer their time.
  — Alisandra Puliti, Travel + Leisure, 28 Feb. 2023
• Massie then asked Wray to clarify whether the bank had volunteered the data or whether the FBI had requested it first.
  — Dell Cameron, WIRED, 14 July 2023
• Thank you to everyone who has volunteered and offered to help.
  — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Dec. 2023
• Some also volunteer at food pantries or do other acts of charity in the spirit of Eid.
  — Lizz Schumer, Good Housekeeping, 6 Feb. 2023
• Germán, whose own son is still in Venezuela, has volunteered to sweep this floor since arriving earlier in the month.
  — Sarah Matusek, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 May 2023
• The work relies on donations Everyone in the field volunteers their time.
  — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Nov. 2023
• And one of the women volunteers with a sick son designed a T-shirt with an opening by the shoulder that unsnaps to allow access to the patient’s chest for a catheter port.
  — Diane Bell, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 July 2023
• The school principal volunteered at his town’s cemetery after the floods struck Derna last week.
  — Sarah Sirgany, CNN, 18 Sep. 2023
• Volunteer Truman Maxwell was a 10-year 4-H member and has been volunteering at the fair for five years.
  — Jared Quigg, Chicago Tribune, 29 July 2023
• Answer their questions but don’t volunteer more than asked.
  — Cate Cadell, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2024
• Many patients were eager to volunteer, only to be told that their disease was too advanced.
  — Matthew Herper, STAT, 12 Apr. 2023
• Riesterer, a suburban mom with a background in business, was looking for ways to volunteer, now that her children are grown and out of the house.
  — Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 10 May 2023
• For my mom [who died in 2014], volunteering with the Dempsey Center was really healing.
  — People Staff, Peoplemag, 27 Dec. 2023
• Since the layoffs, some former staff members have continued to volunteer their time to help keep the paper’s website up and running.
  — Claire Rush, Fortune, 28 Jan. 2024
• Members of the commission would be able to volunteer for the positions, which must represent each of the city’s 14 council districts.
  — Emily Opilo, Baltimore Sun, 12 Feb. 2024
• Only about a third of those Democrats who don't think Mr. Biden should run volunteered anyone else specifically.
  — Anthony Salvanto, Kabir Khanna, Fred Backus, CBS News, 13 Dec. 2023
• Upon hearing this, the marching band from the University of Idaho — which hosted the first two rounds of the tournament — volunteered to fill in.
  — Rachel Treisman, NPR, 29 Mar. 2024
• Morris doesn’t ask about any possible faults as a writer, and le Carré doesn’t volunteer any.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 16 Oct. 2023
• With that in mind, Shenouda volunteered to clean up glasses at the conference to gain free entry, and traveled over six hours from Cologne to Hamburg by train with a stack of résumés in hand.
  — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 13 Apr. 2024

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volunteer

3 of 3 adjective

• The last time there was a draft was during the Vietnam War, and the military has been all-volunteer since.
  — Jessica Gresko, Anchorage Daily News, 7 June 2021
• Metairie is a no-kill, all-volunteer, nonprofit dog rescue group and shelter.
  — Staff Reports, NOLA.com, 3 Feb. 2021
• Volunteer firefighters and EMTs took Marvin to a rendezvous point with the air ambulance.
  — Katy Moeller, idahostatesman, 14 June 2017
• Good Knights is an all-volunteer, non-profit organization that builds and delivers beds to children who go to sleep each night without a bed of their own.
  — Rich Heileman, cleveland, 16 July 2021
• Of course, anyone who can afford to send more is also encouraged to help -- the organization is all volunteer and stretched pretty thinly right now thanks to Mr. Covid.
  — Sam Boyer, cleveland, 13 Aug. 2020
• Volunteer jobs range from helping out in the gift shop and art gallery to giving tours and running special events or keeping an inventory of historical items that are donated.
  — Linda McIntosh, sandiegouniontribune.com, 31 May 2017
• The fire department is primarily volunteer with more than 150 firefighters available to respond to calls.
  — Christina Hall, Detroit Free Press, 9 Nov. 2020
• The all-volunteer, non-profit community theater group has a mortgage to pay on its Mechanic Street theater, utilities, and insurance.
  — Sue Kiesewetter, The Enquirer, 25 Aug. 2020
• Missing Dogs Massachusetts, an all-volunteer, nonprofit organization, has also stepped up to help with the search.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 6 July 2021
• In Maryland, the pandemic is straining an already overtaxed volunteer emergency response system.
  — Dan Levin, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2020
• Fewer and fewer Americans are connected to the country’s all-volunteer professional military.
  — H.r. McMaster, WSJ, 10 Nov. 2020
• There are no real qualifications for becoming an elector beyond a deep connection to a political party, either as an activist, donor, politician or super-volunteer.
  — New York Times, 14 Dec. 2020
• Volunteer background can include: attorneys, law students, and paralegals.
  — Nathan Paige, cleveland.com, 15 May 2017
• The last time there was a draft was during the Vietnam War, and the military has been all-volunteer since.
  — Jessica Gresko, Anchorage Daily News, 7 June 2021
• Metairie is a no-kill, all-volunteer, nonprofit dog rescue group and shelter.
  — Staff Reports, NOLA.com, 3 Feb. 2021
• Volunteer firefighters and EMTs took Marvin to a rendezvous point with the air ambulance.
  — Katy Moeller, idahostatesman, 14 June 2017
• Good Knights is an all-volunteer, non-profit organization that builds and delivers beds to children who go to sleep each night without a bed of their own.
  — Rich Heileman, cleveland, 16 July 2021
• Of course, anyone who can afford to send more is also encouraged to help -- the organization is all volunteer and stretched pretty thinly right now thanks to Mr. Covid.
  — Sam Boyer, cleveland, 13 Aug. 2020
• Volunteer jobs range from helping out in the gift shop and art gallery to giving tours and running special events or keeping an inventory of historical items that are donated.
  — Linda McIntosh, sandiegouniontribune.com, 31 May 2017
• The fire department is primarily volunteer with more than 150 firefighters available to respond to calls.
  — Christina Hall, Detroit Free Press, 9 Nov. 2020
• The all-volunteer, non-profit community theater group has a mortgage to pay on its Mechanic Street theater, utilities, and insurance.
  — Sue Kiesewetter, The Enquirer, 25 Aug. 2020
• Missing Dogs Massachusetts, an all-volunteer, nonprofit organization, has also stepped up to help with the search.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 6 July 2021
• In Maryland, the pandemic is straining an already overtaxed volunteer emergency response system.
  — Dan Levin, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2020
• Fewer and fewer Americans are connected to the country’s all-volunteer professional military.
  — H.r. McMaster, WSJ, 10 Nov. 2020
• There are no real qualifications for becoming an elector beyond a deep connection to a political party, either as an activist, donor, politician or super-volunteer.
  — New York Times, 14 Dec. 2020
• Volunteer background can include: attorneys, law students, and paralegals.
  — Nathan Paige, cleveland.com, 15 May 2017
• The last time there was a draft was during the Vietnam War, and the military has been all-volunteer since.
  — Jessica Gresko, Anchorage Daily News, 7 June 2021
• Metairie is a no-kill, all-volunteer, nonprofit dog rescue group and shelter.
  — Staff Reports, NOLA.com, 3 Feb. 2021
• Volunteer firefighters and EMTs took Marvin to a rendezvous point with the air ambulance.
  — Katy Moeller, idahostatesman, 14 June 2017
• Good Knights is an all-volunteer, non-profit organization that builds and delivers beds to children who go to sleep each night without a bed of their own.
  — Rich Heileman, cleveland, 16 July 2021

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024