How to Use free spirit in a Sentence

free spirit

noun
  • Their daughter is a real free spirit.
  • During Gernreich’s comet ride through fashion’s memorable decade, Moffitt was the free spirit at his side.
    Mary Rourke, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2024
  • Here’s to a free spirit who brought out the loopid in us all.
    Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 23 Apr. 2021
  • Once a free spirit, the lifeless 29-year-old was placed in a bag.
    CBS News, 19 Nov. 2022
  • But that fire and free spirit in me was bursting to come out.
    Jordan Greene, Peoplemag, 8 Nov. 2023
  • But that fire and free spirit, in me, was bursting to come out.
    Danielle Sinay, Glamour, 8 Nov. 2023
  • The whole point of cities of asylum is to give the free spirit of art a solid and safe place to land.
    George Packer, The Atlantic, 16 Aug. 2022
  • Ojai has long been an oasis for artists and free spirits.
    Megan Wood, Travel + Leisure, 17 Feb. 2024
  • The Resurrection Lily is a free spirit of the plant world.
    Steve Dorfman, miamiherald, 20 Oct. 2017
  • At the end of the game Martin, a free spirit who brings a touch of theatrics to the game, stood quietly on the field.
    Mick McCabe, Detroit Free Press, 20 Oct. 2019
  • The former is a straight-as-an-arrow lawyer, the latter a free spirit.
    John Benson, cleveland.com, 29 Jan. 2018
  • Cauley-Stein is certainly a free spirit away from the court.
    Jason Jones, sacbee, 18 Oct. 2017
  • The ex-boozer monogamist and the Chateau-dwelling free spirit hate each other, might love each other.
    Darren Franich, EW.com, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Gildawie was a free spirit who did not like adults telling her what to do, Duperly said.
    Olivia Diaz, Washington Post, 26 Sep. 2022
  • Boss is a consummate ladies’ man, a free spirit and a bar owner in NYC.
    Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 15 Dec. 2020
  • Boss is a consummate ladies' man, a free spirit and a bar owner in NYC.
    Mary Sollosi, EW.com, 15 Dec. 2020
  • Joey, on the other hand, is more of a free spirit, thanks to his Mercury and Venus in Sagittarius, says Lang.
    Naydeline Mejia, Women's Health, 26 Feb. 2023
  • Leslie is a vivacious free spirit trapped in a cycle of shame.
    Thelma Adams, Variety, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Alia is such a free spirit and has such a lovely, light energy.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 23 Feb. 2024
  • He is well known for his free spirit and uncanny sense of humor.
    Sun-Sentinel.com, 8 May 2018
  • Then the city could extend the vehicle-free Spirit Plaza across what is now the roadway and into Hart Plaza.
    John Gallagher, Detroit Free Press, 27 July 2019
  • Dante should be a free spirit, who talks a mile a minute and walks down the street barefoot, someone bound to thrive decades after the school bullies have peaked.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 25 July 2023
  • North Beach has been on a losing streak of late, bidding adieu to many of the free spirits and misfits that have defined the neighborhood since the 1950s.
    J.k. Dineen, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Dec. 2017
  • The free spirit character in movies is often a redhead; so is the slutty one.
    Helena Fitzgerald, The Cut, 6 Apr. 2018
  • There is something of the free spirit in his mellow demeanor, his groovy ponytail.
    Claudia Hinz, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Nov. 2020
  • Coleen was and always will be a free spirit, wild at heart, unique in every way and her friends and family loved her for it.
    Hartford Courant, courant.com, 7 Mar. 2018
  • Shem-Tov wore a T-shirt emblazoned with a picture of Omer, a handsome 21-year-old free spirit with a swoop of dark hair.
    Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2023
  • The indie comedy stars Johnson as free spirit Leif — a guy who gives more than a few Nick Miller vibes.
    Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 7 July 2021
  • As the weight of reaching a billion users pressed down on him, many staffers believe, Huffman began to lose some of that free spirit.
    Paresh Dave, WIRED, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Those same ‘free spirits’ went on to vote for Reagan and called for censorship of the ‘obscene’ and ‘satanic’ heavy metal bands their own kids worshiped.
    Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 12 Aug. 2024

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