Sample sentences for SPONTANEOUS

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Definition

behaving in an instinctive, uninhibited manner

or:

happening naturally (without planning or external force)

spontaneous = happening or arising without plan

He bubbled with enthusiasms, and his faintest smile or lightest laugh seemed spontaneous and genuine.
London, Jack -- Adventure

spontaneous = instinctive, uninhibited, and unplanned

And Nicholas heard her spontaneous, happy, ringing laughter.
Tolstoy, Leo -- War and Peace
Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order in their experiences - "which is the mostest? which is the leastest?" They smell, taste, bite, and touch-test for hardness, softness, springiness, roughness, smoothness, coldness, warmness: the heft, shake, punch, squeeze, push, crush, rub, and try to pull things apart.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Everything about him was warm and spontaneous.
Cather, Willa -- My Antonia
This, beyond most works of Greek literature, is remarkable for its fresh and spontaneous love of wild natural scenes.
Homer -- Collection Of Hesiod, Homer and Homerica
When she finally reached my side, there were gasps of joy and everyone spontaneously began to clap.
Nicholas Sparks -- A Walk to Remember

spontaneously = happening without plan

Then, spontaneously, the Aphrodite campers cheered so loudly, they must've been heard all across camp.
Rick Riordan -- The Lost Hero

spontaneously = suddenly without planning

spontaneous = happening or arising without plan

spontaneously = instinctively and uninhibitedly (without plan)

Spontaneity and whim are the order of the day.
Tom Stoppard -- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

spontaneity = happening or arising without plan

It's this course where each boy in class has to get up in class and make a speech. You know. spontaneous and all.
J.D. Salinger -- The Catcher in the Rye

spontaneous = without planning

"If you'd sat there any longer," Annabeth said, "you would've spontaneously combusted."
Rick Riordan -- The Last Olympian

spontaneously = happening without apparent external cause

She was quiet, her expression softening into the spontaneous compassion I'd once been so drawn to.
Nicholas Sparks -- Dear John

spontaneous = instinctive (coming naturally from within)

A spontaneous demonstration.
Sherman Alexie -- The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

spontaneous = happening or arising without plan

spontaneous = happening or arising without plan

No, the bomber battle in 8 and my intervention in 2 were spontaneous, rash, and definitely unauthorized.
Suzanne Collins -- Mockingjay

spontaneous = unplanned

for a while that there was a deep and spontaneous mutual attraction
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Winter Dreams

spontaneous = arising without plan

spontaneously = happening without plan or forethought

Normal cells didn't spontaneously become cancerous, he said; they were simply taken over by HeLa.
Rebecca Skloot -- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

spontaneously = without external cause

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