The word “will” can function as an auxiliary verb expressing future actions or intentions, or as a noun meaning determination or desire. The examples below show how “will” appears in authentic sentences.
Real Sentences
“You mean to say that you will cross thirty without submitting to arrest?” he almost shouted.
Source: Beyond Thirty by Edgar Rice Burroughs
16 words, 93 characters
It would grow up to be a man, a human soul, with a personality all its own, a will of its own!
Source: The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
22 words, 94 characters
Or were they simply fools or cowards, submitting blindly, because they had not the wit nor the will to do otherwise?
Source: King Coal by Upton Sinclair
21 words, 116 characters
She would impose her will, but her will would be only that a person or two shouldn’t lose a benefit by not submitting if they could be made to submit.
Source: The Wings of the Dove by Henry James
30 words, 150 characters
In submitting Captain Carter’s strange manuscript to you in book form, I believe that a few words relative to this remarkable personality will be of interest.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
26 words, 158 characters
Possibly the suggestions which I gained upon Mars, and the knowledge which I can set down in this chronicle, will aid in an earlier understanding of the mysteries of our sister planet; mysteries to you, but no longer mysteries to me.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
41 words, 233 characters
I know that the average human mind will not believe what it cannot grasp, and so I do not purpose being pilloried by the public, the pulpit, and the press, and held up as a colossal liar when I am but telling the simple truths which some day science will substantiate.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
51 words, 268 characters
He told me at this time that if anything should happen to him he wished me to take charge of his estate, and he gave me a key to a compartment in the safe which stood in his study, telling me I would find his will there and some personal instructions which he had me pledge myself to carry out with absolute fidelity.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
63 words, 317 characters
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