reluctant

In a sentence

Six example sentences with reluctant, each labelled with its topic.

• Children raised by anxious parents are often reluctant to try a slide, hanging back long after their friends climb up.

  Psychology

• The director was reluctant to cut the ballroom scene, and only agreed after three test audiences called it slow.

  Movies

• He signed up for the group class but stood reluctant at the doorway, gym bag still slung over one shoulder.

  Fitness

• Investors were reluctant to sell the shares even as they slid, hoping the company's next report would rescue them.

  Finance

• The founders were reluctant to raise another round, since each one shrank their share of the company they had built.

  Startups

• The center is a reluctant shooter beyond the arc, passing up open looks that his coach begs him to take.

  Basketball

Found in these word lists

Each source is a published word list that contains reluctant. No exam board publishes an official GRE, GMAT or SAT list; GMAT words come from GRE lists and the Academic Word List.

More Academic words

• involvement
• exporting
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• philosophical
• variable
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• periodic
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• coding
• instability
• presumably
• investing