How to Use free-for-all in a Sentence

free-for-all

noun

• In New York’s earliest days, the streets were a free-for-all.
  — New York Times, 13 May 2024
• The vote came down to something of a free-for-all, with unusual alliances in support of and opposed to the bill.
  — Annie Karni, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2024
• Every single seat had a name tag attached to it, rather than a free-for-all like normal.
  — Sam Sklar, Sun Sentinel, 17 Aug. 2023
• The attack by Hamas had unleashed a violent free-for-all.
  — Ronen Bergman, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2023
• Facebook groups for apartment hunters become a free-for-all.
  — Andrew Brinker, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Apr. 2023
• The attraction’s Laser Tag Maze is inflatable and holds up to 20 players in a free-for-all or in team-match mode.
  — Dewayne Bevil, Orlando Sentinel, 29 Mar. 2023
• These dedicated vessels of fun seem truest to the free-for-all of their downtown New York scene.
  — Walker Mimms, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2024
• Franklin argues that the free-for-all is not a rational way to birth truly creative ideas.
  — Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Nov. 2023
• Instead, Shop is plagued by the same problems with a free-for-all marketplace that Amazon has faced.
  — Alex Barinka, Fortune, 8 Sep. 2023
• During the free-for-all, an older guy—maybe nineteen or twenty—stepped toward me and swung his bat.
  — Mackenzie Schmidt, Peoplemag, 4 Feb. 2024
• College sports are turning into a free-for-all, the first-year St. John's coach said, with the big winners determined in court, rather than on the court.
  — Steve Gardner, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2024
• Christina Hall’s daughter Taylor has reached the age at which her mom's closet starts to look like a free-for-all clothing store.
  — Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 3 Aug. 2023
• The free-for-all is widely expected to drive commissions down and force many agents out of business.
  — Rachel Lerman, Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2024
• Some experts argue that the free-for-all is not a rational way to birth truly creative ideas.
  — Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Nov. 2023
• Liberals tend to feel that the legal gray zone and free-for-all is beneficial.
  — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 3 Mar. 2023
• If Biden were to withdraw, columnist Chris Stirewalt wrote, the convention would become a free-for-all.
  — Ashley Oliver, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 9 July 2024
• In what was supposed to be a free-for-all in this new age of the transfer portal and name, image and likeness deals, UConn has figured out how to dominate.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2024
• That turned the back nine at Wentworth into a free-for-all among four players chasing the flagship event on the European tour in the rain and a one-hour delay from lightning in the area.
  — Associated Press, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Sep. 2023
• While Southwest just announced changes to its seating program (gone are the days of seat free-for-alls), one thing that hasn’t changed is its beverage program.
  — Samantha Leal, Travel + Leisure, 26 July 2024
• Liam’s drunken comments about his ongoing divorce from Kensit turned into a free-for-all of abuse that overstepped the mark.
  — Chris Wheatley, Longreads, 16 July 2024
• In Arizona, groundwater extraction in 80% of the state is a complete free-for-all with no limit on how much can be extracted.
  — Daniel Depetris, Chicago Tribune, 3 Sep. 2024
• The logging of California’s globally singular forest was a free-for-all and 95 percent of the old growth was cut.
  — Jim Robbins Ian C. Bates, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2023
• Once that fasten seatbelt sign turns off, the aisles can become a free-for-all where passengers try to beat fellow fliers to unload their own luggage from the overhead bins.
  — Natalia Senanayake, Peoplemag, 15 Mar. 2024
• If the verdict stands, as Deadline wrote then, the result could be a streaming free-for-all with each of the league’s 32 teams making individual deals with platforms games.
  — Dade Hayes, Deadline, 27 June 2024
• Maybe other candidates emerge to challenge her, and the convention becomes an old-fashioned free-for-all.
  — Dan Horn, The Enquirer, 22 July 2024
• The chief justice likely will next call on the senior associate justice, Clarence Thomas, to ask the first question, and then a free-for-all of justices tossing questions will begin.
  — Jess Bravin, WSJ, 28 Feb. 2023
• The potential mayhem has left Cronin to navigate a free-for-all that makes NBA free agency seem easy by comparison.
  — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2024
• Nobody is saying having an open audition in a free-for-all convention would be anything but messy.
  — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 12 July 2024
• For the reparations movement to succeed, it can’t be seen as free-for-all for anyone in America who identifies as Black, these activists say.
  — Emmanuel Felton, Washington Post, 20 July 2023
• Set to roll out in early 2025, the airline hopes the new policy will hopefully eliminate the frustrating free-for-all during boarding that left seating up to matter of chance.
  — Krista Simmons, Sunset Magazine, 25 July 2024

Last Updated: 7 Dec 2024