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How to use reluctance in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word reluctance? Here are some examples.

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I became angry with myself for my blind belief in the Bus, and my reluctance to doubt before that minute.
So it was with great reluctance that I picked up this album and put it into my car stereo.
The groom, a genuine nice guy, has stuck around for three years, a bit puzzled by his love's reluctance.
However, the company has shown reluctance on the grounds that they cannot bear the financial burden.
Their reluctance can only multiply manifold after Sunday night's brutal massacre.
If the findings are accurate, our reluctance to travel by airplane is abating.
So why the reluctance on the part of so many otherwise open-minded and sexually liberal people to attend?
Even if these patients go to the doctor, antibiotics are prescribed with reluctance.
This may be because of misconceptions among patients and reluctance among patients to use inhalers.
The reluctance is mainly due to a desire to give private industry a chance to self-regulate.
The reluctance by our present government to investigate thoroughly and put closure on this matter is shameful.
She did so with reluctance certain that her urgent plea would go unanswered.
This is because of their reluctance, over a period of time, to combat irrational trends in science generally.
It is a role she embraces with regal dignity and a hint of self-conscious reluctance.
The only factor that causes a bit of reluctance for these guests is the spicy and oily nature of the South Indian special foods.
Again, the courts' reluctance to countenance the compulsory appropriation of private rights is evident.
Some of our partners have shown a bit of reluctance, and we may have to look elsewhere for folks to work with.
Everywhere around me people are announcing that they are about to vote Labour with the greatest reluctance.
However, there is some reluctance by men and women to do away with the old system entirely.
It was with the greatest reluctance that I dragged myself into consciousness after my nap this afternoon to go pay a visit to Graham's parents.
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Examples from Classical Literature
It was with visible reluctance and ill-disguised contempt that Wilkins served them.
He felt vaguely that his reluctance did him credit, and that he was improving.
He obeyed the order with reluctance, and soon after the boat was cast adrift.
He felt Razumov's reluctance, and insinuated his hand under his arm caressingly.
Even then, as I have heard from one of his nearest relatives, it was with reluctance that he submitted to be chaired.
This is attributed to the reluctance to be soldiers for the glory of the pasha.
What mode of construction is adopted to reduce the reluctance of the magnetic circuit when laminated poles are used?
The brigade had no intention of not making known its reluctance to leave Patterson.
Mean and miserly as he was, he agreed to this with reluctance, and only as a measure of necessity.
But the shack filled with his disapproval of her reluctance to free him from his promise.
I fingered with an odd reluctance the little roll of bills he handed me, though it was like a life buoy to a drowning sailor.
Only, the cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and a pretence of reluctance.
The artist turns with reluctance from the banks of the lune and the Duddon.
The joints introduced, even if carefully faced and well bolted together, add a little reluctance to the magnetic circuit.
This is a highly efficient form of closed-circuit magnet, since the magnetic circuit is of low reluctance.
Sighing and groaning, as if with great reluctance, the tugboat began again its toilful course up the stream.
In this, Hainaut refused to participate, as in that province there was a reluctance to deny the obligations of the fiefs.
But Dave was embarrassed, and she took his embarrassment for reluctance to grant her the same status as old Mrs. marrowbone.
It is simply that you thereby reduce the reluctance offered by the air gap to the flow of the magnetic lines.
On the other hand, there is reluctance on the part of medical practitioners to certify such cases for a mental hospital.
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