How to Use freely in a Sentence

freely

adverb
  • I will freely give my life for my country.
  • The chicken will be done when the legs move freely in their joints.
    — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 9 May 2022
  • The right to start a business, and to sell one’s labor freely.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 14 Aug. 2023
  • The day camp was born from her wish to have a place where kids could play freely.
    — Ale Russian, Peoplemag, 10 Oct. 2023
  • Keep the tension at a point where the chain doesn’t sag but can move freely in its track around the bar.
    — Luke Miller, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Oct. 2024
  • People have a right to their opinions—and to voice them freely.
    — Sam Reed, Glamour, 13 Mar. 2025
  • The particles will start to move freely through the whole volume of the vessel.
    — Stav Dimitropoulos, Popular Mechanics, 22 Apr. 2022
  • In this space, the living room freely flows into the kitchen and dining area.
    — Claire Hoppe Norgaard, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Nov. 2024
  • And if not, what are you allowed to freely say in the privacy of your own home in Maine?
    — James Erwin, National Review, 26 Jan. 2024
  • My hands freely roamed his body but always made their way back to his ass.
    — Zachary Zane, Rolling Stone, 9 May 2023
  • His tears flowed freely right there on the parquet floor in Boston.
    — Ron Kroichick, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 July 2022
  • For the first time in more than a century, the river flowed freely by the end of August.
    — Alexa Robles-Gil, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Oct. 2024
  • Goats roam freely on the island, to the delight of visitors and, good news, all the goats made it out alive.
    — Leada Gore | [email protected], al, 4 July 2023
  • In the past, weapons have flowed freely into Hamas's hands via tunnels from Sinai.
    — David Faris, Newsweek, 3 Feb. 2025
  • The goal is to have enough room for the ingredients to move around freely while cooking.
    — Robin Miller, The Arizona Republic, 11 Aug. 2023
  • The hippos, however, were left to roam freely in a hot, marshy area.
    — Harold Maass, The Week, 6 May 2023
  • The right of broadcasters to speak freely is rooted in the First Amendment.
    — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 12 Oct. 2024
  • The breathable weave is ideal for hot sleepers as the air can flow freely.
    — Emma Seymour, Good Housekeeping, 19 Apr. 2023
  • When the atoms touched the ring, they were found to stick to it, flowing freely along that edge in one direction.
    — Michael Irving, New Atlas, 11 Sep. 2024
  • The toe box is seamless to reduce friction and allow the toes to move freely.
    — Lacey Muinos, Health, 8 Feb. 2023
  • The right to settle anywhere in the EU, the right to work, the right to move freely, and the right to vote or even run in local and EU elections.
    — Tax Notes Staff, Forbes, 17 May 2022
  • Although dads and employees could come and go freely, moms had to check in and out.
    — Clarissa Wei, The New Yorker, 23 Mar. 2024
  • The ballet’s many child performers freely steal the show.
    — Sarah L. Kaufman, Washington Post, 24 Nov. 2022
  • The ratchet lock allows the head to move up freely, but not down until the lever is released.
    — Talon Homer, Popular Mechanics, 17 June 2022
  • Afterward the electrons were bound up in atoms, and light could flow freely.
    — Marc Kamionkowski, Scientific American, 15 Oct. 2024
  • Jagger moved freely in what appears to be a bar in Mustique, St. Vicent and the Grenadines.
    — Taijuan Moorman, USA TODAY, 1 Apr. 2024
  • Over time, for longer and longer stretches, he would be allowed to move freely among the other birds.
    — Oliver Whang Andres Serrano, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2023
  • The president sometimes speaks more freely in campaign events, away from the glare of the cameras.
    — Kathryn Watson, CBS News, 12 Dec. 2023
  • The exoplanets that are wanderers Many planets aren’t bound to a star but instead roam freely across the stretches of space.
    — Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Apr. 2025
  • Such ideas are not new – but the possibility of executing them this freely is.
    — Dominique Soguel, Christian Science Monitor, 27 Mar. 2025

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