adverb
definition
In a reluctant or hesitant manner.
Examples of reluctantly in a Sentence
I reluctantly descended the stairs, smiling but unsure what to say.
She reluctantly pushed his hands away.
The time had come and I reluctantly agreed.
Reluctantly she pulled away, her pulse and respiration in a race.
Dean reluctantly agreed it was a clever idea even though he thought it was a waste of time.
Reluctantly, she took his hand.
Fred O'Connor reluctantly held out the century-old notebook.
Bill reluctantly left her at the hospital for the night.
Betsy reluctantly took the phone.
Finally, Howie reluctantly agreed to wait a couple of days and see how the situation played out.
Fred O'Connor had arranged the affair and Dean had reluctantly agreed to subject himself to the scrutiny of the cream of the town's lady folk.
She was sitting by her sister at the tea table, and reluctantly, without looking at him, made some reply to Boris who sat down beside her.
Reluctantly, he agreed to waste his Sunday with Vinnie and learned from Sackler that a uniformed officer had delivered Vinnie's clothes earlier.
Jonny held out a hand, and Dusty reluctantly let her go.
Reluctantly, he accepted the fact that he needed the protection of the Immortals to keep Katie safe.
Rostov looked frowningly at the Frenchmen, bowed reluctantly, and remained silent.
He had the right people helping him, a mate who reluctantly agreed to his plan to help her, a better understanding of when to break the Code and a plan to repair all that was broken within his domain on the mortal realm.
When she reached for the receiver, he released it reluctantly and then lounged against the wall where he could hear her conversation.
Cynthia looked down at the coded notebook, but the sounds of the returning guests caused her to reluctantly put it aside.
Reluctantly he released her and started through the door.
She was half listening to him while she watched Denton reluctantly leave Clarissa and glance around the crowd.
When the show was over, Dean carefully laid out his new slacks over the back of his chair and reluctantly went to shower—and shave.
Parking wasn't a problem if you didn't mind paying the price of a good country dinner, but Dean didn't have time to hunt down a bargain so he reluctantly pulled into the closest lot.
Fred seethed but reluctantly agreed it was best to call it a night—or rather, a morning.
He attended to army affairs reluctantly, left everything to his generals, and while awaiting the Emperor's arrival led a dissipated life.
Dean tried hard to exclude Jennifer Radisson from consideration as a malefactor, although he reluctantly admitted his sole reason to pass on her as a suspect was his belief in her story.
Prince Andrew, seeing that his father insisted, began--at first reluctantly, but gradually with more and more animation, and from habit changing unconsciously from Russian to French as he went on--to explain the plan of operation for the coming campaign.
Princess Mary--reluctantly as is usual in such cases--began telling of the condition in which she had found Prince Andrew.
We all reluctantly entered our vitals privately, including information on baby Claire.
I reluctantly agreed and told him we were devastated that we prompted these deaths; the deputy sheriff, Youngblood, Brenda Washington.
Jackson had stopped by for Bumpus who reluctantly jumped into the back seat like an arrested felon.
Destiny let go of him and reluctantly transferred to Carmen.
In 1875 he was elected member of the Academie des Sciences Morales, and in 1880 reluctantly accepted the post of director of the Ecole Normale.
She reluctantly relinquished the kitten and watched him retrace his steps to the barn.
Betsy and I reluctantly agreed, also agreeing to travel north the following weekend.
Yeah, I agreed, reluctantly.
When Jefferson left France it was with the intention of soon returning; but President Washington tendered him the secretaryship of state in the new federal government, and Jefferson reluctantly accepted.
After telling me the contest was over, something I'd just told her, she reluctantly transferred me to Irv Goldman who was in charge of the contest while it was running.
Reluctantly, her thoughts returned to the human she'd left in Hell.
Reluctantly, he walked up the sloping hill and to the door that opened automatically for its master, unlike the portal home.
That hey very reluctantly raised the siege of Damanhur, being in daily expectation of the arrival of an English army; and at the village of Shubra-ment he was attacked by a sudden illness, and died on the 3oth of January 1807, at the age of fifty-five.
The home government (the first Russell administration), which had reluctantly consented to confirm Sir Harry Smith's annexation of the Orange River territory., on learning of these difficulties, and also that many of the burghers remained dissatisfied, changed their policy, and in 1851 the governor was informed that the ultimate abandonment of the Sovereignty was a settled point.2 In fulfilment of their settled policy to keep the British South African dominions within the smallest possible limits, the cabinet decided to recognize the independence of the Boers living beyond the Vaal.
A further 13% would comply reluctantly; 5% would not comply reluctantly; 5% would not comply with such a mandate.
There had been wholesale desertions on the road south and on December 5th Charles reluctantly agreed to retreat.
At worst, mission was ignored by church, or reluctantly allowed overseas or done at home by second class people like lay evangelists.
Please note the Trustees reluctantly taken the decision to place RSI Assoication into creditor's voluntary liquidation.
The Russian military historians in so far as they submit to claims of logic must admit that conclusion, and in spite of their lyrical rhapsodies about valor, devotion, and so forth, must reluctantly admit that the French retreat from Moscow was a series of victories for Napoleon and defeats for Kutuzov.
She reluctantly agreed following up on my sighting would be prudent and wouldn't do any harm.
Cynthia reluctantly agreed and after the now-customary caution to be careful, Dean rose to leave.
She released him reluctantly.