How to Use volition in a Sentence

volition

noun
  • Tourette's syndrome is a neurological disorder marked by recurrent tics and vocalizations that are beyond the sufferer's volition or control.
  • His killer did so of his own volition and for his own reason.
    — Fox News, 4 Oct. 2019
  • The threat could inspire staff to leave of their own volition.
    — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 24 June 2022
  • Those younger men who are fighting in the war have done so of their own volition.
    — Nataliya Gumenyuk, Foreign Affairs, 19 Apr. 2024
  • But for all these groups there are many others who’ve just come of their own volition.
    — Harper Simon, SPIN, 20 May 2022
  • The guys who choose to show up will get coached here, and that is under their own volition.
    — Scott Patsko, cleveland, 2 June 2021
  • The most likely reason is that the worms crawled there on their own volition.
    — Joan Morris, Mercury News, 27 Apr. 2026
  • For the sake of your eyes, don’t hesitate to bring this up of your own volition.
    — Korin Miller, SELF, 29 Aug. 2018
  • Perhaps the lawyers did leave of their own volition, but to jump from a sinking ship.
    — Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 9 June 2023
  • So, this isn't money that the school districts just have of their own volition.
    — March 8, CBS News, 8 Mar. 2026
  • Many thousands more showed up at town halls of their own volition, in their own districts.
    — The Washington Post, The Denver Post, 23 Feb. 2017
  • Every tune is hummable, toes start tapping of their own volition.
    — Matthew J. Palm, Orlando Sentinel, 20 Nov. 2022
  • On the other hand, this sort of thing rarely goes well when a good coach walks out the door of his own volition.
    — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 23 Sep. 2022
  • Whether this grand jury speaks out or not, that's of their own accord and their own volition.
    — Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 30 Sep. 2020
  • People that were brought here, people that have done a good job and were not brought here of their own volition.
    — Jay Willis, GQ, 14 Sep. 2017
  • Don't get a new actor unless Garfield quits of his own volition.
    — G. Clay Whittaker, Esquire, 16 Dec. 2014
  • Most of them resigned — some under pressure and some of their own volition.
    — Philip Bump, Washington Post, 19 Mar. 2018
  • Trump didn't invite Cox inside his home on his own volition.
    — Saige Miller, NPR, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Yet central to these changes is the role of volition – human agency.
    — Russell N Myers, Twin Cities, 25 Mar. 2025
  • Some had finished their court appearances and left of their own volition.
    — Paulina Villegas, New York Times, 14 Dec. 2019
  • Others wonder if Maduro might leave of his own volition.
    — Max Saltman, CNN Money, 22 Nov. 2025
  • His job had been to prevent opponents from rippling the net, not to score of his own volition.
    — Jeff Rueter, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025
  • Some nuns would vanish—of their own volition, which they weren’t supposed to have, or because they’d been asked to leave.
    — Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Graham's spokesman said the senator was making the calls of his own volition.
    — Jonathan Lemire, Star Tribune, 13 Jan. 2021
  • Even Jane’s desire for her husband, the thing that binds her to him, is beyond her volition.
    — Parul Sehgal, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2024
  • After the boy refused to go to the office on his own volition, his peers were removed from the classroom.
    — Yana Kunichoff, The Arizona Republic, 17 Apr. 2024
  • For the first time ever, I was moved to walk into the sanctuary of my own volition.
    — Nicolaia Rips, The New Yorker, 21 June 2024
  • This need for the child to express volition in the fulfillment of male desires was mentioned in the book, too.
    — Rachel Cusk, New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2025
  • Perkins reached out to Morton of her own volition and ended up meeting with the actor.
    — Elizabeth Wagmeister, Variety, 17 Nov. 2022
  • Leaving on his own volition is the right way for the Wenger era to end at Arsenal.
    — Juan Pimiento, chicagotribune.com, 22 Apr. 2018

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