How to Use reluctance in a Sentence

reluctance

noun

• This—the self-doubt, the reluctance to be direct—is my first clue that something is not right.
  — Anna Holmes, The New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2024
• Hall has expressed reluctance to ask the team’s best fans, the ones who attend games, to pay even more.
  — Kent Somers, The Arizona Republic, 19 Aug. 2022
• And in that reluctance to yield to darkness lay perhaps the promise of spring.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2023
• Would there be reluctance on your behalf to talk about it?
  — Eric Andersson, Peoplemag, 9 Sep. 2023
• All signs point to Branson’s reluctance to keep funding the firm.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 31 Mar. 2023
• The Maclin character’s reluctance to change his ways is based on truth.
  — Adam Iscoe, The New Yorker, 29 July 2024
• But some of it was clearly reluctance for voters to go for Vance.
  — Aaron Blake, Washington Post, 15 July 2024
• Yet, his seeming reluctance to run the ball at times can confound.
  — Edgar Thompson, Orlando Sentinel, 23 Nov. 2022
• Did the state’s reluctance to get on board delay the program’s uptake?
  — Ian Max Stevenson, Idaho Statesman, 8 May 2024
• The joint press release tucks the reason for that reluctance away in a dependent clause.
  — Jeremy Lott, Washington Examiner, 4 Jan. 2024
• The dog's reluctance to get close to others made trying to rescue the dog and free her from the bowl challenging.
  — Chris Barilla, Peoplemag, 18 July 2024
• The person closest to her needs to speak frankly — for the family — about their reluctance to visit the house again.
  — Jeanne Phillips, The Mercury News, 27 Sep. 2024
• Their reluctance to live and work on camera was strong, but their desire to spread the word about the kids who need assistance was stronger.
  — Christine Lennon, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Mar. 2023
• The researchers suggested that might have been the result of patients’ reluctance to be charged a fee.
  — Benjamin Ryan, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2023
• This prompted his wife to take him to the hospital despite his reluctance to go.
  — Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 8 May 2024
• The reluctance to list also is rooted in the worry that a new house won’t be easily found.
  — Ed Stannard, Hartford Courant, 2 June 2024
• There is an equal reluctance to commemorate milestones, and this year the DRIP marks three of them.
  — Omar El Akkad, Harper's Magazine, 27 Sep. 2023
• Most recently, signs of reluctance have been pronounced in the swift growing-and-shrinking stake in the maker of the Call of Duty video games.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 15 Feb. 2023
• The union has said that the problems at Yellow are due to mismanagement, not with the union’s reluctance to go along with the restricting plans.
  — Chris Isidore, CNN, 27 July 2023
• Young’s reluctance to perform was largely rooted in concerns about the spread of Covid.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 8 June 2023
• That episode is likely weighing on Mr. Garland and adding to his reluctance to speak up, said Mr. Rozenshtein.
  — Jan Wolfe, WSJ, 10 Aug. 2022
• Despite her reluctance to be caught watching Friends on her own time, Kudrow has rarely shied away from discussing her time on the series.
  — Max Gao, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 July 2024
• On one hand, the film’s (or the subjects’) reluctance to take more explicit stances can seem curious, even timid.
  — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Oct. 2022
• Diverse factors are blamed for the reluctance among South Koreans to have kids.
  — Sam Kim, Fortune Asia, 28 Feb. 2024
• What is perhaps the most intriguing thing about SZA is her reluctance to step into the spotlight.
  — Okla Jones, Essence, 9 Dec. 2022
• Their reluctance, in this climate, to cozy up to Israel is not simply a question of regime survival.
  — Marc Lynch, Foreign Affairs, 14 Oct. 2023
• The board's reluctance to pass a policy is rooted in both the likelihood of lawsuits, as well as the harm SB 150 could bring to some students.
  — Krista Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 7 Aug. 2023
• Distrust of the medical system is also a key factor in the reluctance of Black men to get a prostate screening.
  — Taayoo Murray, Essence, 7 June 2024
• His previous relationship, spanning nine years, came to an end due to his reluctance to commit.
  — Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 15 Oct. 2024
• His reluctance to seize a leadership role on the Serbian national team this summer revealed a defining contradiction in his life these days: one between the sway his voice has and his own perception of how strong that sway is.
  — Bennett Durando, The Denver Post, 20 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Nov 2024