Words similar to volunteering

Example sentences for: volunteering

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

Even with volunteering at record levels (56 percent of Americans say they are so engaged, according to the latest Gallup survey), I think we have to take steps to ensure that the spirit upon which it (and much else that's worthwhile) depends is transmitted from generation to generation.
' We've determined which graduates spend a year trekking through Nepal or volunteering for ineffectual NGOs.
"While some were out dodging the draft, John McCain was volunteering for active service in Vietnam," Grooms reminded the audience--which was sprinkled with purple- and orange-haired teen-agers as well as vets.
He was coyly gleeful about how lucky we are to toil in this chaos: to see the early snowdrops pushing up from the snow year after year or some flower graciously volunteering where you never would have been clever enough to plant it; or just to watch a couple of dragonflies having sex on a hot summer day.
(For example: Singing in a church choir counts as "volunteering"; so does making cookies for a school bake sale.)