Example sentences for: volunteered

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

  • Orwell's hatred of Soviet communism dates from 1937, the year he volunteered to go fight in the Spanish Civil War.

  • At the special staff meeting called to discuss the issue of who should bare all for the good of the magazine, there was a groundswell of support for calling upon the CEO of Microsoft--but no one volunteered to make the call.

  • Bob Dornan, R-Calif., who went down in grudging defeat last fall, described his military career thusly in a 1994 House speech: "I went into the Air Force and volunteered for whatever dangerous assignment there was."

  • Naively assuming that this would be a request for my mailing address and Social Security number, I volunteered to provide this information right then and there, on the phone.

  • Starr says that the question was never put to Hattoy, but that when in the course of a Whitewater interview, Hattoy was asked about his general government duties, he volunteered that, in Starr's words, "it was his job to locate homosexuals" for administration jobs.


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