How to Use free-form in a Sentence

free-form

adjective
  • The latest feature in this vein is called free-form ads.
    Boone Ashworth, WIRED, 16 Mar. 2024
  • Colorful Kokedama Bring the outside in with a free-form hanging moss planter.
    Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Some like small strips of pastry dropped into the bubbling pot, either free-form and puffy or rolled thin and cut like noodles.
    Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 30 Dec. 2023
  • From its earliest days, WBCN was known for its free-form style of programming.
    James Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 21 July 2023
  • The resort boasts a spa, a golden-sand beach, and a free-form infinity pool, as well as a wide array of eateries for all tastes.
    Jack Tydeman, Travel + Leisure, 7 Oct. 2024
  • The result is a kind of free-form musical version of talk therapy.
    Joshua St. Clair, Men's Health, 13 May 2023
  • But particularly the classes and some of the more free-form sections in the movie are fully improvised.
    Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 14 July 2023
  • The vibe is tropical, even in the midst of a metropolis, especially in the beach rooms with balconies hanging over the sprawling free-form swimming pool.
    Kathryn Romeyn, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 July 2023
  • The gorgeous free-form pool might just be the most serene place in Africa, and the six luxury huts are wholly original structures, with bathrooms built around behemoth boulders.
    Kathryn Romeyn, Travel + Leisure, 17 July 2023
  • Today’s chefs can adopt a different style for each course: free-form, organic, futuristic or no plate at all.
    Julia Moskin, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2024
  • The free-form activities of kids on a block, in any case, represent a very different situation from that of her kindergarten class.
    Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2024
  • The opening and ending of the show are both entertaining, but the free-form, clue-hunting middle section was repetitive and unfocused.
    Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Apr. 2024
  • That sort of thing doesn't work well for presentations, though, which often involve images and rearranging things on a free-form layout.
    Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 19 Sep. 2023
  • With 140 tools for drawing and coloring, this is a great value starter kit for your budding young artist that encourages free-form creativity.
    Tanya Edwards, Parents, 13 June 2024
  • These include Bruns, whose glossy mixed-media pictures combine free-form gestures with hard-edge shapes produced through stenciling.
    Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 14 June 2024
  • With 16 high-impact choices (flavors?) like bubblegum pink, creamy butterscotch, and ripe cherry, this kit is your golden ticket to free-form color play.
    Liana Schaffner, Allure, 21 Sep. 2023
  • On the stand-up stage, comedian Kate Berlant is a lot — a lot of exaggerated faces, a lot of abrupt free-form physicality and a lot of on-a-dime thematic pivots.
    Leigh-Ann Jackson, Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Freeze any leftover sorbet free-form and enjoy as a granita (scrape with a fork occasionally during freezing to keep it from becoming an icy block).
    Sunset Staff, Sunset Magazine, 15 Aug. 2024
  • The show was an organic, free-form platform for 1990s rappers, which ran the gamut talent-wise from Biggie Smalls to Hieroglyphics, and everyone imaginable in between.
    Dante Ross, Rolling Stone, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Tell me about your innovative ways of cutting and presenting precious stones, such as free-form cutting or slicing them to expose their raw, natural beauty.
    Y-Jean Mun-Delsalle, Forbes, 13 Aug. 2023
  • For a truly heirloom-worthy piece, Gee’s Bend quilts are textile masterpieces that have been a tradition in Boykin, Ala., since the 1800s, when enslaved women would make abstract free-form designs using fabric scraps.
    Ellie Pithers Wei Tchou Alice Newell-Hanson Caitie Kelly Betsy Horan Jinnie Lee Megan O’Sullivan, New York Times, 24 July 2023
  • The bandmembers’ hair grew longer, their politics (deeply influenced by Sinclair) more radical, and their sound grew quickly into a vibrant form of hard rock spiked influenced by free-form jazz.
    Jem Aswad, Variety, 9 May 2024
  • The conceit of the free-form animation drawn onto actual fabric makes for a captivating viewing experience, even if the story seems to fade out too soon.
    Joe Reid, Vulture, 9 Mar. 2024
  • A number of rugs break free of the standard quadrilateral configuration, spilling into free-form shapes that call to mind a Brutalist MC Escher creation.
    Zoey Poll Kin Woo Rima Suqi Zoey Poll Roxanne Fequiere Gisela Williams, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Although the blob mirror name doesn’t exude glamor, this free-form mirror can tie your maximalist room together with minimal effort.
    Maggie Gillette, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Jan. 2024
  • Their early concerts defined the burgeoning psychedelic movement, and were punctuated by dizzying light shows, strobes and long, free-form jamming.
    Jem Aswad, Variety, 14 July 2023
  • Without some structure, uniformity and guidelines to direct your shearing, free-form hedge shearing often results in something that looks like an inebriated caterpillar stumbling down the side of the hill.
    Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 9 June 2023
  • Waldorf schools have been esteemed for decades as the perfect place for a family looking for a free-form style education that emphasizes arts, outdoor play, spirituality, and screen-free learning.
    ​wendy Wisner, Parents, 30 July 2024
  • While the contents of the Salvador Dalí Museum are plenty interesting, the exterior architecture — a free-form geodesic glass bubble erupting from 18-inch-thick walls — is worth a visit in its own right.
    Skye Sherman, Travel + Leisure, 4 Nov. 2023
  • In its fluid, free-form design, the American Museum of Natural History’s new addition evokes the gentle contours that come from living processes acting over deep time.
    Michael J. Lewis, wsj.com, 29 Apr. 2023

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