Example sentences for: volunteering

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

  • You might want to consider volunteering at a homeless shelter.

  • 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.

  • Portillo, who is seeking re-election to Parliament and is widely seen as an eventual contender for the party leadership, said he wanted to put an end to untrue rumors about his sex life--one being that he had a homosexual affair with another former Conservative minister--by instead volunteering the truth.

  • "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.

  • The talk contains the following compelling and reassuring passage, about a transport helicopter pilot, who came up on the radio volunteering to go pick up a fighter pilot shot down over a heavy concentration of Iraqi troops: "You need to remember a Chinook is about the size of a double-decker London bus with props, and it doesn't have guns.


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