How to Use willed in a Sentence

willed

adjective

• Nor is the strong-willed Lizzie any less tolerant of him.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 Mar. 2022
• How can anyone break through that kind of willed blindness and be seen?
  — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2019
• She was hardheaded and strong willed, and on her way to be a great woman.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 11 June 2020
• Shirine Babb is a strong-willed Mary Hatch, and her courtship with George is treated as a bonding of equals.
  — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 9 Dec. 2021
• Those with this sign are courageous, strong-willed and carefree.
  — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 6 Feb. 2023
• Yes, the film noir follows the rags-to-riches ascent of a strong-willed single mom.
  — cleveland.com, 2 June 2017
• Like the Gilmore girls, Emily is strong-willed and refuses to let anything get in the way of her schemes.
  — Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2020
• What rang really true was the butting of heads and the strong-willed nature of those two characters.
  — Michael Ordona, latimes.com, 15 Feb. 2018
• Kosarue said her daughter had always been strong-willed.
  — Erik Ortiz, NBC News, 11 Aug. 2022
• Sánchez plays María Garcia, the steel-willed owner of Dos Estaciones, who holds out, despite a plague and a flood.
  — John Hopewell, Variety, 16 Sep. 2022
• His strong-willed big sister is not going to take this kindly.
  — Zoe Haylock, Vulture, 12 Mar. 2021
• With a cup of warm milk tea in his hand, Mr. Akbar told stories of the polite, strong-willed woman who had raised him.
  — Zia Ur-Rehman, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2022
• Barbara: Anyone who knows Nicole knows she is very strong willed and has very strong opinions.
  — Peter Kiefer, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 June 2018
• Clarisse is a strong-willed and competitive fighter who doesn’t let much stand in the way of her winning.
  — Joe Otterson, Variety, 21 June 2022
• Persistent and strong willed, or else bowed down by his burdens.
  — Martin Fritz Huber, Outside Online, 1 Mar. 2021
• Some hoped that Trump and his Twitter habit would mature in office, or that at least a strong-willed chief of staff would take away his phone.
  — Owen Thomas, SFChronicle.com, 9 Jan. 2021
• Once two strong-willed boys who butted heads in the beginning, the two now work together as equal partners.
  — Krista Torralva, ExpressNews.com, 25 Sep. 2020
• Such self-willed agony, though, has its element of delight.
  — Charlie Tyson, The Atlantic, 30 Jan. 2022
• To see my very strong-willed mother bow down to her was pretty impressive.
  — Bianca Alysse, Men's Health, 28 Sep. 2022
• And from the beginning, it was overseen by a strong-willed German board that knew well the risks and rewards that came with such a business.
  — Landon Thomas Jr., New York Times, 30 Dec. 2016
• Whitlock was a strong-willed fireball of a kid and far from deterred by his circumstances.
  — Dana Hunsinger Benbow, The Indianapolis Star, 2 June 2020
• But against Morocco’s iron-willed defense, Ramos and the Portuguese wilted as the wall of whistles reached fever pitch and stayed there.
  — Tariq Panja, New York Times, 10 Dec. 2022
• Dear Amy: My daughter’s mother-in-law, who lives in another state, is very strong-willed.
  — Amy Dickinson, oregonlive, 22 July 2022
• Its four members speak not as a unit but as separate, strong-willed voices.
  — Zachary Lewis, cleveland, 13 Mar. 2022
• These signs of human will alongside the self-willed can feel like interruptions.
  — Boyce Upholt, Outside Online, 27 Mar. 2020
• Having that tiny bit of choice liberated her strong-willed self.
  — Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2020
• My tough-willed little girl fell asleep without her thumb, without a cry or complaint for bunny, for more than a month.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland.com, 6 Aug. 2017
• On the plus side, Erica Luttrell, who plays the strong-willed Utaru warrior Zo, is excellent.
  — Washington Post, 19 Feb. 2022
• Though the family says the shack was willed to Salvatore, the agency won’t recognize the inheritance.
  — Lindsay Crudele, BostonGlobe.com, 22 June 2023
• To do so would be seen not as an act of good-willed compromise but as a sign of weakness, of election-season vulnerability.
  — Bob Greene, WSJ, 8 Nov. 2022

Last Updated: 4 Nov 2024