How to Use at will in a Sentence

at will

phrase
  • Aside from running the ball, the offenses moved the ball at will.
    — Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 1 Aug. 2026
  • Many others water their lawns at will, including in the heat of the day.
    — Dp Opinion, Denver Post, 31 Aug. 2026
  • The Oilers didn’t have the same time and space to weave through traffic and choose their spots at will.
    — Janson Duench, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2026
  • Our tickets were waiting at will call for a magical theater night.
    — Betsy Blondin, Longreads, 22 Sep. 2026
  • The most important thing about QIH, though, is that it can be switched on and off at will.
    — Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 22 Aug. 2026
  • The labels can change, pages can multiply and functions can be reassigned at will.
    — New Atlas, 18 July 2026
  • That leaves room for disputes in which both sides agree the job began as at will but disagree about what was understood later.
    — William Jones, Sacbee.com, 2 Oct. 2026
  • Its adaptive air suspension can be adjusted at will, even while driving.
    — Tyler Hayes, PC Magazine, 29 Sep. 2026
  • The ability to switch between services at will has long been the best argument for buying an unlocked phone.
    — Rob Pegoraro, PC Magazine, 18 Aug. 2026
  • Reserves are deposits that banks themselves hold at the central bank, and the Fed can create them at will with a keystroke.
    — James Broughel, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2026
  • Pattinson plays him like a man whose voice and demeanor could change at will, an ambitious morass of contradictions.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2026
  • Not to mention that an open capital account comes with the volatility of capital moving in and out at will.
    — Philipp Carlsson-Szlezak, Fortune, 17 July 2026
  • Water benders can freeze ice or raise currents at will; earth benders can move rock or even, in some cases, manipulate metal.
    — Alison Herman, Variety, 24 July 2026
  • Put simply, the theory says the president should be able to issue orders to subordinates and to fire them at will.
    — Graham G. Dodds, The Conversation, 30 June 2026
  • Not to mention that the Cowboys offense moved the ball seemingly at will against Oregon's defense.
    — Ian Miller Outkick, FOXNews.com, 15 Sep. 2026
  • Soon, such drones were striking at will on Russian munitions depots, supply convoys, and transport routes.
    — Joshua Yaffa, New Yorker, 15 July 2026
  • Founder Jie Tang declared that advanced AI should be open to anyone, not belong to a small group, or be pulled back at will.
    — Craig S. Smith, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • How willing are Mbappé, Dembélé and Olise to press from the front to prevent France being played through at will?
    — Graham Ruthven, New York Times, 4 July 2026
  • An employee may be at will while still having legal protections that apply to the reason for a firing or the terms under which employment can end.
    — William Jones, Sacbee.com, 2 Oct. 2026
  • Consisting of eight sessions of several 15-minute talks held across two time slots, these were designed so that audience members could hop around at will.
    — Bartolomeo Sala, The Dial, 29 Sep. 2026
  • With no defensive work required, the South Americans just set up camp on the edge of England’s box and were allowed to attack at will.
    — Aleks Klosok, CNN Money, 15 July 2026
  • In truth, Thomas Tuchel’s decision to go ultra-defensive early gave Scaloni’s side license to attack at will.
    — Aleks Klosok, CNN Money, 15 July 2026
  • Perhaps Messi’s greatest gift is this ability to control his opponent’s attention, to deflect and attract it at will.
    — Sally Jenkins, The Atlantic, 18 July 2026
  • Everything else–the percussive jumpscares, the distorted synth stabs, the unintelligible vocal samples–pops in and out at will.
    — Olivier Lafontant, Pitchfork, 31 July 2026
  • Anuj doesn’t say it outright, but the sentiment of depleting currency hangs in the air, of how any number of items—bills, malls, entire towns—can be devalued at will by social and political forces.
    — Hazlitt, 10 Dec. 2025
  • The black-tie event at will take place at Cipriani Wall Street in New York on Thursday, October 15th.
    — Jem Aswad, Variety, 26 Aug. 2026
  • The Court, in a 6–3 opinion written by Roberts, ruled that the President could dismiss the Commission’s appointees at will.
    — Margaret Talbot, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2026
  • The pitch-shifting and sampling sound crude and unglamorous, pretty clearly the result of the producer loading up fragments and mashing buttons at will, as though literally taking his frustration out on himself.
    — Daniel Bromfield, Pitchfork, 27 July 2026
  • But other recent Supreme Court cases have gone the other way, protecting the president’s authority to fire other high-level government officials at will.
    — Elizabeth C. Tippett, The Conversation, 29 June 2026
  • Museum curators have long enjoyed the ability to move walls at will, though that almost always involves an environmentally wasteful process of construction, demolition, and starting from scratch.
    — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 29 July 2026

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