Example sentences for: involuntary

How can you use “involuntary” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Terry Nichols was convicted of conspiracy and involuntary manslaughter but acquitted of first-degree murder in the Oklahoma City bombing.

  • If we think of the prohibition against slavery and involuntary servitude as an affirmation of autonomy, then the passive sentence of the Thirteenth Amendment could be rewritten, without change of content, in the form of the German Basic Law:

  • One is a consumer boycott and another is a (voluntary or involuntary) fine.

  • In 1985, the Supreme Court recognized this when it ruled that involuntary surgical castration constituted cruel and unusual punishment.

  • The Thirteenth Amendment charges the federal government with the responsibility to make sure that neither “slavery” nor “involuntary servitude” shall come to exist in the United States.


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