How to Use willing in a Sentence

willing

adjective

• He was a willing participant in the crime.
• She's lending a willing hand.
• See you in 2023, God willing, and the creek don’t rise.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Dec. 2022
• And the rocker seems to be ready and willing to do it all again.
  — Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2023
• 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
• Despite this, the town is willing to embrace the big change.
  — Rachel Ventresca, Fortune, 7 June 2024
• Many are not ready or willing to look into the mirror and face the truth.
  — Krumma Jónsdóttir, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2023
• But in the short term, what sets a stock’s price is how much investors are willing to pay for it.
  — Stan Choe, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 May 2024
• These are the same old Dems, in other words, but newly willing to bring the fight.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 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
• The friends, who have become less and less willing to leave their homes, agree to watch a movie on the TV and then meet on Zoom to talk.
  — Lore Segal, The New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2024
• Now, the feature is rolling out to the masses – or anyone willing to pay for it.
  — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 15 Dec. 2022
• But the car built around this willing chassis is starting to show its age.
  — Joey Capparella, Car and Driver, 4 Aug. 2023
• When that fuller picture emerges, will the big leaguers still be willing to beat a drum?
  — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 18 Feb. 2023
• If only his partner in crime were willing to foot the bill.
  — Edith Olmsted, The New Republic, 17 Aug. 2023
• The person has to be found and must be willing to sign an affidavit.
  — Joe Mahr, Chicago Tribune, 13 Oct. 2024
• But Kester said friends and neighbors are not often willing or able to do that.
  — Kay Lazar, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Dec. 2022
• On top of being fond of the arts (not to mention a thief), Booth is willing to look past conflicts to maintain the peace.
  — Valerie Mesa, Peoplemag, 27 July 2024
• 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
• The other four lost their big-box cameras at a time when the city was more willing to move them to other hot spots.
  — Joe Mahr, Chicago Tribune, 29 Sep. 2024
• 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
• And some team owners are once again willing to spend it far, far into the future.
  — Lindsey Adler, WSJ, 9 Dec. 2022
• Bragg the candidate, in fact, was more than willing to talk up his legal bona fides in the matter of Trump.
  — Michael Rothfeld Emily Woo Zeller Krish Seenivasan David Mason, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2024
• 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
• That three-album run solidified Tyler as one of hip-hop’s best mainstream album-makers and world-builders, and fans were willing to show up for him – even if that meant waking up early on a Monday morning.
  — Eric Renner Brown, Billboard, 5 Nov. 2024
• At home, Elisha is incredibly supportive of his family and willing to lend a hand or offer encouragement.
  — Marcus Reichley, The Arizona Republic, 4 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Nov 2024