INVOLUNTARY in a Sentence
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41 example sentences for INVOLUNTARY, such as:
1. Anna Sergyevna gave an involuntary shudder.
2. I gasped and took an involuntary step backwards.
3. it might happen, he added with an involuntary smile.
4. said Pierre to himself, and an involuntary shudder ran down his spine.
5. On Carry Fisher's part the withdrawal was perhaps not quite involuntary.
2. I gasped and took an involuntary step backwards.
3. it might happen, he added with an involuntary smile.
4. said Pierre to himself, and an involuntary shudder ran down his spine.
5. On Carry Fisher's part the withdrawal was perhaps not quite involuntary.
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Meanings and Examples of INVOLUNTARY
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involuntary
a. not subject to the control of the will
a. controlled by the autonomic nervous system; without conscious control
Classic Sentence: (37 in 3 pages)
1 She held her finger tips out to him cordially, but her face betrayed an involuntary sense of tension.
2 Anna Sergyevna gave an involuntary shudder.
3 Nicholas sat at some distance from Sonya, beside Julie Karagina, to whom he was again talking with the same involuntary smile.
4 "She let the hawk fly upward from her wide right sleeve," went the song, arousing an involuntary sensation of courage and cheerfulness.
5 Every act of theirs, which appears to them an act of their own will, is in an historical sense involuntary and is related to the whole course of history and predestined from eternity.
6 He was ridiculous, and unpleasantly sarcastic, but yet he inspired involuntary respect by his boundless devotion to an idea.
7 Evidently the terrible stormcloud he had desired with the whole strength of his soul but which yet aroused involuntary horror in him was drawing near.
8 With a woman's involuntary loving cunning she, who till then had not shown any alarm, said that she would die of fright if they did not leave that very night.
9 said Pierre to himself, and an involuntary shudder ran down his spine.
10 it might happen, he added with an involuntary smile.
11 Selden had listened in silence, with the concentrated look which his thin dark face could assume when he wished to guard it against any involuntary change of expression.
12 On Carry Fisher's part the withdrawal was perhaps not quite involuntary.
13 So long as a man's eyes are open in the light, the act of seeing is involuntary; that is, he cannot then help mechanically seeing whatever objects are before him.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context Highlight In CHAPTER 74. The Sperm Whale's Head—Contrasted View.
Context Highlight In CHAPTER 74. The Sperm Whale's Head—Contrasted View.
14 Nevertheless, he may be deemed a sort of involuntary whaleman; at any rate the whale caught him, if he did not the whale.
15 With his sudden and, perhaps, involuntary movement, every appearance of surprise or alarm ended.
Example Sentence:
1 A sharp tap on the knee usually causes an involuntary movement of the lower leg.
2 The water was hotter than she had expected, and she gave an involuntary yelp.
3 I gasped and took an involuntary step backwards.
4 After all, the line between voluntary and involuntary is very different in the military than in the civilian world.