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Example sentences for "free"

Lexicographically close words:
freckles; freckling; fredda; fredom; fredome; freeboard; freebooter; freebooters; freebooting; freeborn
  1. The woods were dense and free from underbrush, the ascent gradual.

  2. The real weather gods are free from brag and bluster; but the sham gods fill the sky with portentous signs and omens.

  3. He well knew from pet-boy experience he could spin out his visit until it should please him to remount Shank's mare and trot back home of his own free will.

  4. Then, with hands that shook, did he assay to free himself from the accursed things.

  5. The boy was evidently fast in some way among the rigging, and had been trying to free himself.

  6. He could, however, walk up and down for a few hundred yards without losing sight of the only part of the sea that was free enough of ice to allow a ship to approach the island.

  7. And what did he say when you told him that we wished to free our souls from darkness, but could not.

  8. But we did not, tell them: 'We deliver our souls unto you in bondage'; because every Israelite is free to search for the Lord in his own heart and to explain His words according to his intelligence.

  9. Of course an actual Platonic state was contrary to the nature of things; for the Platonic state is free and independent, which such an one as this, within the Roman Empire, could of course not be.

  10. The negative mean to these one-sided principles is the Notion, which, abrogating fixed extremes of determination such as these, moves them and sets them free from a mere state of opposition.

  11. And thus as we say that a free man is he who exists on his own account and not for another, Philosophy is the only science that is free, because it alone exists for itself—it is knowledge on account of knowledge.

  12. And this determination is really only free determination which certainly does not prevent universality—a limitation (for every determination is limitation) which likewise leaves the universal in its infinitude free and independent.

  13. Freedom exists only in a return into itself; the undistinguished is the lifeless; the active, living, concrete universal is hence what inwardly distinguishes itself, but yet remains free in so doing.

  14. But now, under his ardent eyes, the colour ran up into her cheeks in rebellious defiance of her often strengthened determination and, though she wrenched herself free from him, something of the fire in his eyes was reflected in hers.

  15. Give him time and a free swing, and he'll find it.

  16. Gentled sufficiently and reminded that he was no longer a free agent to fling up his heels at the wind and race recklessly where he would, but that he was man's friend and servant, Danny was presented to Helen.

  17. This alone, since his acres were broad and since his stock grazed free over thousands of acres lying adjacent to Desert Valley on three sides, was a big task.

  18. He was as free and easy as the north wind; he might, after all, be likeable.

  19. Silently they returned to their own camp site, the girl carrying in her free hand the wand tipped with the bluebird feather.

  20. Make yourselves free with the whole house.

  21. Then suddenly her eyes flew open, and she sat up with a little cry; a man who would have fitted well enough into any fancy-free maiden's dreams was standing close to her side, looking down at her.

  22. He swung out to the side to be free of the town and galloped on to Sanchia's tent, which he found readily.

  23. The forests being thus broken, the growth of grasses and annual plants would be greatly facilitated by the nakedness of the soil, and the free admission of the rays of the sun.

  24. The free and independent spirit of the Indian is carried even into their language, and may be recognised there by its absolute destitution of a single word drawn from the language of a civilised people.

  25. The fascination of that free and hospitable life has been so strong on the writer of this novel that he closes it with a genuine regret and the hope that its perusal may lead others to the pleasure he has derived from the history of Maryland.

  26. He has drawn the foregoing with a very free hand, and in the Maryland scenes has made use of names rather than of actual personages.

  27. Now was I free to ask Dorothy to marry me, to promise her the ease and comfort that had once been hers, should God bring us safe back to Maryland.

  28. And every letter that came from Comyn telling me she was still free gave me new heart for my work.

  29. We will not be free from unfair competition till one of these fellows is hanged for an example,' he said.

  30. These moribund shapes were free as air--and nearly as thin.

  31. I had to make an effort to free my eyes from his gaze and attend to the steering.

  32. Through my glasses I saw the slope of a hill interspersed with rare trees and perfectly free from undergrowth.

  33. Too long have you been on your knees: rise, I bid you, and henceforth be free of my Court and of me; for you have arrived at a good haven.

  34. When Fenice had heard it, thus has she spoken and replied: "Nurse, I put myself in your care, I give you free leave to do what you will with me.

  35. When he was free from care as regards these, he goes to make a present of shame and of misfortune to the rest who are escorting the maiden.

  36. Now is he dead if he free her not; and she, on the other hand, is likewise dead; for she is greatly discomforted for him, but does not know that he is so near her.

  37. And by the time the tables were removed, the emperor had drunk so much of the beverage which had pleased him, that never will he get free of it.

  38. Never do I seek to be free from Love, so as not always to devote myself to it.

  39. She turned to him, and laid her trembling free hand on his arm.

  40. The free loosely-growing branches of the plane trees made a dark, delicate network against the luminous blue of the night.

  41. Surely she has given love enough, anxious thought enough, and here is Rose only fighting to be free from the yoke of her father's wishes, from the galling pressure of the family tradition!

  42. But still it had always been understood that each was free to say what he would.

  43. To an actual call, an actual following to the free mountain-side, the rush of the wind, the phantom figure floating on before her, bearing her into the heart of the storm?

  44. Nothing, so far, had served his cause and his influence so well as these moments of free discursive intercourse.

  45. Besides, how could the boys have free access except to that ground-floor room?

  46. He is waiting to comfort you--to set you free from pain for ever; and He has sent you a sign by me.

  47. It rushed on to sweep them away, crying out that all this shrinking from free discussion had been at bottom 'a mere treason to faith.

  48. If he were but left free to feel, and live again!

  49. These were the legions which a short time before had belonged to the enemy; for the custom of offering free towns to those who joined the opposite party had changed Caesar's kindness.

  50. Galba to open a free passage over them to the Roman merchants, G.

  51. Now, the Thessalians, a few months before, had of themselves sent ambassadors to Caesar, offering him the free use of everything in their power, and requesting a garrison for their protection.

  52. The three first days Caesar employed in fortifying his camp with strong works, in bringing in corn from the neighbouring free towns, and waiting for the rest of his forces.

  53. The affairs of his portfolio moved automatically with but very little personal attention from him, and so he was left free to prosecute his own more secret plans, almost without interruption.

  54. Familiarity left them free to give undivided attention to their work.

  55. He had been interrupted in his correspondence by the Prime Minister's summons, and now he was anxious to be done with it, and be free to contemplate the new situation in the light of those many purposes he had in view.

  56. Are they, too, bound to obey the mandates of Berlin in violation of the laws of free England?

  57. As well try to struggle free from the strangling rope of the hangman with hands tied.

  58. The tides--is there a Teuton spy who would face the entrance of that cove and believe that it is free to us to enter or leave it at will?

  59. If she went away of her own free will--that's what we've got to find out.

  60. With Von Berger in England he would no longer be a free agent.

  61. He will have no suspicion, and I shall be free to work.

  62. If it's mine, then the Princess has not left of her own free will.

  63. She would be free to witness, in due regularity, the progress of future seasons.

  64. With the detachment of youth his thoughts had been left free to wander from the purpose of his journey.

  65. This Englishman Von Salzinger speaks of will still possess them, and--be free to act upon them.

  66. I shall be free in half an hour, McGrath.

  67. When once established and determined, resolution free from terrible doubts was necessary to undertake it.

  68. He granted a free permit so that the father might preach to his subjects, and so that the father might enter and leave his lands without hindrance, ordering that all give him their help.

  69. They made a distinction in those captivities; for if one were born of a slave woman, and a free father, or the contrary, such a one remained a half slave.

  70. So noble a proposition edified the king, who recognized it as made by a whole and free spirit.

  71. They numbered some Spaniards and many negroes, both free and slave, and more Indians of different nations, who came to seek in that refuge relief from their sins and failings.

  72. If he were the child of parents both half slave, he was obliged to serve one month, remaining free the three following; then he served another month, continuing in this manner his servitude.

  73. It was no little work to make the Indians leave so many wives as each one had, obliging them to marry the first, and to free their slaves whom they miserably oppressed.

  74. The minister of Sampoloc had a suit pending about those tenants, but as soon as they were adjudged to that new church, they escaped from his demands; and free possession remained to them, which was confirmed by the royal patronage.

  75. He made them a present of it, and of a portion of the lands surrounding it, on condition that the said religious found a convent on that site, where some religious could live retired and free from disturbance.

  76. It is said that there was no further cause for the atrocious and profane act of the wicked parricide than the desire to free himself from the censures that that same father had administered to him for his crimes and wickedness.

  77. The ship sailed a long distance without meeting accident, and later they found themselves in the deep sea, free from so dangerous a fright.

  78. Chapter II Foundation of the convent of Cigayan The year 1612 The missionary fathers of the Philippinas Islands were free from anxiety, and were far from suffering the strife and upheaval that the Reform was enduring in España.

  79. His horse, as he irritated without maddening him, tried several times to free himself, but without success.

  80. His free drove had passed the night in the neighborhood.

  81. Renaud, finding that his pursuer had once more become a fugitive, gave Prince a free rein.

  82. And as she was the daughter of a free race, and queen of her tribe, he had been proud of his conquest.

  83. In every nook left free by the natural curiosities some pious image was to be seen.

  84. However, the vagaries of this marrias, this good-for-nothing knave, were the pranks of a free man.

  85. One by one they joined our American Union of their own free will and volition, until in 1999 the great American Union became an accomplished fact.

  86. From the Delta of the Nile to Cape Town, from Abyssinia to Liberia, the British lion was free to roam and roar throughout the enormous, heart-shaped African continent.

  87. Such barbarism may answer well enough for Europe, whose governments are founded upon wrong principles, but in great, free America, we want none of it, nor never shall.

  88. But the ambition of mankind is to control the air at a reasonable distance from the earth's surface and to navigate an element that is entirely free from all obstructions.

  89. I have tried so hard to free myself from their effect, but it has been hard--so hard.

  90. I'm free of all these troubles, and I'm a happy man.

  91. This was not talked of at the hotel, and Louise remained in ignorance of a great deal of what took place before they were free to depart.

  92. A man might have thought he'd be free here from a woman's tongue.

  93. Now I'm a free man, with the world before me.

  94. If I had been free I would have married him--just because I am sick of the life I lead, and long for the kind of life he offered me.

  95. And Maurice Hilliard, a free man in his own conceit, sang to himself a song of the joy of life.

  96. Here, to the left, is the Midland Institute, where a great deal of lecturing goes on, and the big free library, where you can either read or go to sleep.

  97. I want to know the taste of free life, human life.

  98. I shall remind myself that I was once a free man, and that will support me.

  99. I got them from the Free Library--books of all kinds; not only novels.

  100. Now that the days of sun and warmth were past, it was difficult to arrange for a meeting under circumstances that allowed of free comfortable colloquy.

  101. You must be free for the next year or two.

  102. Narramore pondered with his amiable smile; the other, after a moment's gloom, shook himself free again, and talked with growing exhilaration of the new life that had dawned before him.

  103. Even in Diagram D the yarn is approaching the stage where it is uncomfortable to work, for if a certain amount of free space be not allowed, the loops are stiff and crowded together in too little space.

  104. Each needle is free to prepare and complete its own loop, this being done in rapid succession as the cams traverse the heels or butts.

  105. The theory of these surprising results is that free interspaces act as so many air chambers which contribute to non-conductivity of heat by the garment.

  106. Contrasted with this the woollen yarn is free and open in structure, the most suitable type of wool being medium to long staple.

  107. Obviously when the jacks are released they are free to fall a certain distance, and this distance determines the length of loop sunk between the needles of the machine.

  108. That which a man rightly knows and understands, he is the free disposer of at his own full liberty, without any regard to the author from whence he had it, or fumbling over the leaves of his book.

  109. I turned off the hot water in the other rooms so as to concentrate the heat in these pipes, and I let a free current of air pass through the room.

  110. Perhaps he has an ill-tempered wife, who, after the amiable fashion of a certain type of woman, thinking that her husband is pinned down without a chance of escape, gives a free rein to her temper.

  111. I'm not the sort of man who goes round cadging for free professional advice.

  112. Then there was the fact that all the bones were quite free from adipocere.

  113. And all these bones were also entirely free from marks or scratches such as would naturally occur in an ordinary dismemberment, and all were quite free from adipocere.

  114. He was a wealthy bachelor with an engrossing interest in life, free to go whither he would and to do whatsoever he wished.

  115. Yes, on their way to the Royal Free Hospital.

  116. I had no plans for the future, but I longed to be rid of the, now irksome, routine of the practice--to be free to come and go when and how I pleased.

  117. This is an untried case, and we mustn't make free with the actions and motives of individuals.

  118. He was ultimately allowed to go free without being told of what charge there had been against him or any reason given for his detention.

  119. This, however, does not mean that he is less free in his handling.

  120. He put me into the house, where two bullies were with some wenches, a curate praying by them, an old covetous shopkeeper endeavouring to forget his supper, and two scoundrelly shabby scholars, contriving how to fill their bellies free of cost.

  121. He was free with his pen in condemnation of crying abuses and defects in the administration.

  122. Perron himself, having first retreated upon Agra, and thence on Mathra, came over to the English with two subordinates, and was at once allowed a free passage to Chandarnagar with his family and his property.

  123. The isolation and impossibility of trusting native colleagues, of which that gallant adventurer complained, were still, and always must be, fatal to the free exercise of civilized minds serving an Asiatic ruler.

  124. The work is laborious, free from party bias, and much thought of by the educated natives of Hindustan.

  125. Bankers and money changers have their shops open, free from any apprehension of danger, and the females go about with their trinkets and jewels, all enjoying the wholesome protection of law.

  126. Few if any races of men are free from some morbid taint: scrofula, phthisis, weak nerves, or a disordered brain, are all likely to be propagated if a person predisposed to any such ailment marries a woman of his own stock.

  127. His manners were free and easy, but never boisterous; “he had a polite, courteous way of saluting you, if it were only to borrow a knife.

  128. There is nothing like the perils of whaling to breed this free and easy sort of genial, desperado philosophy; and with it I regard this whole voyage of the Pequod, and the great white whale its object.

  129. He insensibly remitted his watchfulness, and the prisoners were free to stroll further and further from the Calabooza.

  130. Hawthorne’s was eminently a neat, fastidious style, as free from any eccentricity or excess as from any particular pungency or colour.

  131. When I am quite free of my present engagements, I am going to treat myself to a ride and a visit to you.

  132. His philosophy is Coleridgean; he accepts the Scriptures as divine, and yet leaves himself free to inquire into Nature.

  133. He proved a good fellow--free and easy and no damned nonsense, as there is about so many of these English.

  134. The ship he had loathed, while he was imprisoned in it, grew lovely in his eyes when he was free to bid it forever farewell.

  135. During these weeks he was free to go where he pleased between four o’clock in the afternoon and the following dawn.


  136. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "free" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abandoned; absolute; absolve; accessible; acquit; adrift; afloat; allay; approachable; arbitrary; artless; audacious; autonomous; available; bald; bare; bluff; blunt; bountiful; broad; brusque; candid; charitable; cleanse; clear; communicative; complimentary; debauched; deliver; demonstrative; deserted; detach; detached; diffuse; direct; disabuse; disburden; discharge; disclose; disclosed; discretionary; disembarrass; disencumber; disengage; disengaged; disentangle; disjoin; dislodge; dismiss; disperse; dissipated; dissolute; doff; downright; ease; easygoing; effusive; elective; eleemosynary; emancipate; emancipated; enfranchise; except; exculpate; excuse; exemplify; exempt; exonerate; expansive; explicit; expose; exposed; extract; extremity; extricate; fair; fallow; familiar; fast; floating; forgive; forsaken; forthcoming; forthright; frank; free; freeborn; freed; freely; fugitive; gallant; gay; generous; genuine; given; giving; gracious; gratis; gratuitous; handsome; hospitable; house; idle; independent; informal; ingenuous; intermit; jobless; justify; large; lavish; leisure; leisured; liberal; liberate; liberated; liberty; licentious; lighthearted; loose; loosen; magnanimous; manifest; munificent; naked; newsy; off; offered; open; optional; otiose; outgoing; outright; outspoken; pardon; plain; princely; proffered; profligate; profuse; public; purge; quit; rakish; ransom; recover; redeem; redeemed; relax; release; released; relieve; relinquish; remit; remove; reprieve; rescue; retired; retrieve; reveal; rickety; rid; round; runaway; salvage; save; scatter; separate; shaky; shrive; sincere; single; slack; slacken; smooth; sociable; spare; spontaneous; straight; straightforward; suspend; talkative; transparent; unasked; unattached; unbidden; unbind; unbound; unbridled; unbuckle; unbutton; unchain; unchecked; unclasp; uncommitted; unconfined; unconstrained; uncork; uncover; uncovered; undo; undone; unemployed; unequivocal; unfasten; unfilled; unfixed; unfold; unforced; ungrudging; unguarded; unhampered; unhidden; unimpeded; uninfluenced; uninhabited; uninvited; unlace; unlatch; unleash; unlock; unmanned; unmarried; unobstructed; unoccupied; unpeopled; unravel; unreserved; unrestrained; unrestricted; unroll; unselfish; unsheathe; unshrinking; unsolicited; unsought; unsparing; unstopped; untaken; untangle; untenanted; untended; untie; untied; unveil; unwrap; vacant; vindicate; vocal; voluntary; volunteer; whitewash; wild; outright; outspoken; pardon; plain; princely; proffered; profligate; profuse; public; purge; quit; rakish; ransom; recover; redeem; redeemed; relax; release; released; relieve; relinquish; remit; remove; reprieve; rescue; retired; retrieve; reveal; rickety; rid; round; runaway; salvage; save; scatter; separate; shaky; shrive; sincere; single; slack; slacken; smooth; sociable; spare; spontaneous; straight; straightforward; suspend; talkative; transparent; unasked; unattached; unbidden; unbind; unbound; unbridled; unbuckle; unbutton; unchain; unchecked; unclasp; uncommitted; unconfined; unconstrained; uncork; uncover; uncovered; undo; undone; unemployed; unequivocal; unfasten; unfilled; unfixed; unfold; unforced; ungrudging; unguarded; unhampered; unhidden; unimpeded; uninfluenced; uninhabited; uninvited; unlace; unlatch; unleash; unlock; unmanned; unmarried; unobstructed; unoccupied; unpeopled; unravel; unreserved; unrestrained; unrestricted; unroll; unselfish; unsheathe; unshrinking; unsolicited; unsought; unsparing; unstopped; untaken; untangle; untenanted; untended; untie; untied; unveil; unwrap; vacant; vindicate; vocal; voluntary; volunteer; whitewash; wild


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    free access; free acid; free agency; free agent; free cause; free citizen; free citizens; free city; free contract; free discussion; free education; free gift; free hand; free herself; free inhabitants; free inquiry; free negroes; free oxygen; free pardon; free passage; free people; free port; free public; free quarters; free speech; freezing point