How to Use free love in a Sentence

free love

noun

• The festival featured Brazilian psy trance music and focused on free love, spirit, and environmental preservation.
  — Anna Gordon, Time, 9 Oct. 2023
• This was the era of free love, so everybody was stoned all the time.
  — Isaac Chotiner, Slate Magazine, 12 Oct. 2017
• By the mid-nineteenth century, this would be called free love.
  — Anahid Nersessian, The New York Review of Books, 5 Jan. 2022
• Most young people in the sixties did not practice free love, take drugs, or protest the war in Vietnam.
  — The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2021
• Many of those who had protested against war and preached free love in the decade before had grown up, settled down and bought homes and cars.
  — J.l., The Economist, 5 July 2019
• This was the swinging '60s with free love in the air and the House of Windsor was starting to look decidedly stuffy.
  — Juliet Rieden, Town & Country, 23 Nov. 2019
• Steve Easterbrook, an Englishman in Chicago, had to find out the hard way that America is no longer the land of the free — or, in his case, free love.
  — Henning Schroeder, Star Tribune, 22 Sep. 2020
• Now, a new reality TV show is set to air in Australia, where the concept of finding a fboy-free love life is the key agenda.
  — Alicia Vrajlal, refinery29.com, 14 Dec. 2022
• To the rest of the world, Rastas may seem to be black hippies: long-haired vegans practicing free love, always stoned.
  — Ishion Hutchinson, Harper's Magazine, 30 Mar. 2020
• One thing to be wary of are sites offering free love tarot readings or free online tarot readings.
  — Norcal Marketing, Chron, 28 Jan. 2021
• Ta-da, here's what happened as a result of all this free love and positive energy.
  — Steve Baltin, Forbes, 5 July 2021
• Indeed, come July 1969, the promise of the sixties and the hippy trip of the free love movement were a few festivals and a bunch of ghoulish murders away from coming to an end.
  — Mitch Goodwin, Quartzy, 12 July 2019
• His #Flowerpower is a tribute to the counterculture of the 1960s and its bohemian, free love essence.
  — Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 7 July 2022
• Here was strong pot, free love, spectral amusements, acid trips and epic intellection that no one remembered in the morning.
  — Dwight Garner, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2020
• The free love movement did not produce a more tolerant society.
  — Michael Bennett, Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2020
• But there’s considerably less access to free love in, say, rural areas.
  — Gabrielle Smith, SELF, 7 Aug. 2020
• Like many of the era’s youthful seekers, Kasabian drifted around the country taking drugs, living in communes and practicing free love.
  — Elaine Woowriter, Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2023
• Like many of the era’s youthful seekers, Kasabian drifted around the country taking drugs, living in communes and practicing free love.
  — Elaine Woo Los Angeles Times (tns), al, 2 Mar. 2023
• As foreign tourists flock to places like Casablanca in search of drugs and free love, former revolutionaries get caught up in the pursuit of money and power.
  — Mark Athitakis, Los Angeles Times, 10 May 2023
• The younger activists who emerged from the civil rights and antiwar movements practiced free love, fought the police, and occasionally set off bombs.
  — Samuel Goldman, The Week, 6 Jan. 2022
• From '70s free love to modern day power suits, her character is forced to develop (and surely turn her into a hair and makeup master).
  — Harper's Bazaar Staff, Harper's BAZAAR, 11 Mar. 2015
• These were the 1970s, after all, when millions of marriages—including both Guttentag’s and Secord’s first marriages—had collapsed in the chaos of the free love movement spawned during the previous decade.
  — Robert Epstein, Discover Magazine, 19 Apr. 2012
• Keep it small Festivals may emanate a free love kinda vibe, but remember that threesomes are usually bad, and anything more than that is worse.
  — Beca Grimm, GQ, 20 Apr. 2018
• In the increasingly fierce—if not entirely tangible—fight for the exploding self-driving car market, Lyft stands out for its free love vibes.
  — Alex Davies, WIRED, 14 Mar. 2018
• However, to a large segment of Anchorage society, these new arrivals were just filthy hippies who came north to spread communism, free love, or LSD.
  — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Jan. 2023
• Long before the free love of the 1960s and longer still before Gen Z circulated a mainstream acceptance of concepts like gender fluidity, there was the Bloomsbury group.
  — Sebastian Modak, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2023
• These stewardesses and nurses represent the free love era of the 1960s, but the scanty costumes and choreography definitely feel dated.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Feb. 2022
• But what began as a culture of peace and free love morphed, as the group struggled to keep control of the area, into a saga marked by poison attacks, attempted murders and rampant immigration fraud.
  — Mahita Gajanan, Time, 13 Apr. 2018
• The turning on was supplied to Stockhausen by the Eastern mysticism, psychedelic reverie and free love that pervaded the Bay Area hippie culture.
  — Mark Swed, latimes.com, 21 Apr. 2018
• That’s not to imply that the crowd had abandoned free love or flower crowns, neither of which are in short supply among attendees assuming both the lotus and missionary positions in the green fields of Somerset.
  — Elle Carroll, Vulture, 8 June 2022

Last Updated: 10 Dec 2024