Reluctantly crouched at the starting line

“The assassin crouched atop one of the shorter, thicker pillars, his body a curve of taut muscles beneath nondescript gray clothes. He looked more…

— Leah Cypess

Crouched on the roof between BEx and Liz, I wasn't a girl who had just broken up with her boyfriend; I looked at my…

— Ally Carter

And down the dunes a thousand guns lie crouched,Unseen, beside the flood -Like tigers in some Orient jungle crouchedThat wait and watch for blood.Meanwhile,…

— Henry Timrod

“You’d beat the hell out of each other over me?” Blade crouched at her side, so they were eye to eye. “Don’t you get…

— Susan Hayes

“The old man and the boy crouched as still as lizards”

— Gail Gillespie-Fox

“The demon is crouched in the corner, between the Cheetos and the onion dip. It’s”

— Rachel A. Marks

Turning the thermostat down is something that I do pretty reluctantly. I like to be able to walk around in whatever I fancy at…

— Anonymous

Few people become assholes reluctantly.

— Geoffrey Nunberg

“Per said reluctantly. Being the grandson of Frans Ringholm afforded him a special status within the group, and in a weak moment he had”

— Camilla Läckberg

There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.

— Anonymous

I have come, reluctantly, to the conclusion that Boris [Johnson] cannot provide the leadership or build the team for the task ahead.

— Michael Gove

Thou shalt not give birth reluctantly.

— Otto Rank

“Reluctantly, and with much hesitation, did she then begin what might perhaps, at the end of half an hour, be termed, by the courtesy…

— Jane Austen

Then she offers him a slim but sincere smile, and he reluctantly returns it. It doesn't bridge the gap between them, but at least…

— Neal Shusterman

I am very reluctantly healthy.

— Judy Greer