How to Use unburdened in a Sentence

unburdened

adjective
  • Not that the movie subscribes to the idea of adolescence as a carefree, unburdened time.
    A.a. Dowd, Washington Post, 14 June 2022
  • Chance seemed unburdened, able to marvel at what he’d pulled off.
    Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 25 Sep. 2016
  • The front-disc, rear-drum brakes are unburdened by an anti-lock system.
    John Pearley Huffman, Car and Driver, 29 Sep. 2020
  • Or would people just want to eat and have a good time, unburdened by history?
    Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2022
  • Many spoke of being unburdened from the weight of blame, judgment, and surveillance.
    Leah Wright Rigueur, The Atlantic, 11 Aug. 2021
  • Texas’ coach appeared loose and unburdened Thursday, more like a beer leaguer pining for meaty hacks and frosty cans than the coach of a team in the thick of the Big 12 pennant race.
    Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 6 May 2021
  • Suddenly unburdened, Gwyn had a few things to get off her chest about our scrambled eggs, too.
    John Kelly, Washington Post, 16 Oct. 2022
  • And today, her life remains a testament to all those who believe in what can be, unburdened by what has been.
    Vice President Kamala Harris, Rolling Stone, 19 June 2023
  • Without investors, you are unburdened by the pressure of making short-term profits and are free to focus on the long-term goals of your business.
    Theo Sastre-Garau, Rolling Stone, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Now, Red is coming forward to tell of the trauma of bearing witness to that night and share her hopes that others will be unburdened in their stories.
    Tiffany Red, Rolling Stone, 7 Dec. 2023
  • For those outside the theater and who wish to remain unburdened by details, spoilers will ensue in the next paragraph.
    The New York Times, New York Times, 7 June 2016
  • Ultimately the desire to absorb the identity of the bimbo comes from the fact the bimbo is unburdened—whether or not this is a performance.
    Sascha Cohen, Longreads, 20 May 2021
  • Dallas is a challenging team to defend at the 3-point line and has to feel at least a bit unburdened after finally escaping the first round.
    Dallas News, 1 May 2022
  • Ice-cold, Los Blancos delivers in such moments, unburdened by pressure and blocking out all the noise.
    Henry Flynn, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Unlike Steven Spielberg or James Gray, she is unburdened by any need to connect the events depicted with a larger career.
    A.a. Dowd, Chron, 9 Nov. 2022
  • Many who fled similarly lived out of a suitcase for months like nomads, and felt newly unburdened.
    New York Times, 1 Jan. 2021
  • The cerebral, smiley righty from Scranton, Pennsylvania, is the only one of the five to have reached Triple-A and this spring is unburdened by workload restrictions.
    Evan Webeck, The Mercury News, 3 Mar. 2024
  • Women who can easily work outside the home are still not free or unburdened from other people.
    Angela Garbes, The Atlantic, 13 May 2022
  • And then Innie Helly was more of an angsty teenager, presenting the id that has no conditioning and is unburdened by the stories she's been telling herself her whole life.
    ELLE, 8 Apr. 2022
  • Blue Sky's are affordable and unburdened by extra junk.
    Medea Giordan, Wired, 30 Aug. 2021
  • Rather than feeling unburdened by this ritual, Blake feels tense.
    Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 10 Aug. 2021
  • His to-do list is filled with the kind of responsibility particular to the unburdened.
    Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 4 Apr. 2024
  • The Rocky Mountain peaks, unburdened from heavy snow, exude their full majestic glory.
    Elise Taylor, Vogue, 11 May 2022
  • Taylor’s book, and work like it, directly challenges readers to help create a world in which all bodies can be unburdened from tyranny.
    Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 17 Sep. 2021
  • This was the truest Anthony Bourdain, writing simply for the sake of it, unburdened by his reputation.
    Alexander Darwin, Rolling Stone, 11 Dec. 2021
  • Boric—young and unburdened by the past—seems likely to be the politician who can best articulate the benefits of a greater freedom from ideology.
    Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 6 June 2022
  • Without the Browns or Baker Mayfield being brought up, Beckham was asked about being unburdened.
    Mary Kay Cabot, cleveland, 7 Feb. 2022
  • Compounding the potential shock to borrowers, most of them are now used to living unburdened by college debt.
    Laura Litvan, Chicago Tribune, 27 June 2023
  • Renters with severe cost burdens in the lowest expenditure quartile spent 39% less on food and 42% less on healthcare than unburdened renters.
    Cortlynn Stark, Sacramento Bee, 9 Feb. 2024
  • On the most sobering, sensational of Fridays, one man’s arrest became another man’s freedom, a simple ballgame serving as a striking example of brilliance unburdened.
    Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2024

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