How to Use free will in a Sentence

free will

noun

• He argues that all humans have free will.
• The queue became a pictorial representation of Rhode’s biggest ambassadors who were there of their own free will.
  — Avani Thakkar, refinery29.com, 28 Oct. 2024
• If the main cause of our actions is not our molecules but the emergent mental states that encode memories, intentions, beliefs and so forth, isn’t that enough for a meaningful notion of free will?
  — Philip Ball, WIRED, 21 July 2024
• At Brown in 1773, the topic was free will and the debate was in Latin.
  — Jason Farago, New York Times, 23 May 2024
• In the tug of war between fate and free will, here the victor is the former.
  — Washington Post, 24 Dec. 2019
• That’s one of the beautiful and bad things about free will. .
  — Jenna Portnoy, Washington Post, 2 Sep. 2017
• This is the planet of free will and we have all been given this gift.
  — Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 25 Aug. 2023
• Nick Shadow, the devil, is chained to hell, to show his lack of free will.
  — Mark Swed, latimes.com, 7 June 2019
• This young man may have chosen to do evil, of his own free will, over and over.
  — WSJ, 25 May 2022
• No free will of the country to decide its own fate — only the IOC could have pulled the plug.
  — Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Aug. 2021
• Is there such a thing as free will, or has this been planned out like a cosmic recipe?
  — Anchorage Daily News, 5 July 2022
• Ford taking free will back from the hosts and taking over Bernard's mind.
  — Kayleigh Roberts, Marie Claire, 4 June 2018
• But Bernard gets a little bit of his free will back (maybe) and deletes Ford's code from his head.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 17 June 2018
• Once Kang died, Strange got some of his free will back along with the entire timeline.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 18 Apr. 2022
• Not to be outdone, the Caddy bounces up and down of its own free will and lurches from side to side.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 1 Oct. 2021
• Are we supposed to think that cancer cells have free will?
  — John Horgan, Scientific American, 14 Aug. 2021
• Jesus had free will and made the decision to be obedient to the will of God.
  — baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 23 Apr. 2021
• Auerbach’s new work emerged from no less heady a quandary than the existence of free will.
  — Julia Felsenthal, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2023
• The whole point is to for people not to be influenced, but instead to act out of their own free will.
  — The Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2020
• On the night of Halloween, the most scary thing will be giving up your free will, your agency, your persona.
  — Shannon Liao, The Verge, 26 Oct. 2018
• The land of the free and the home of the brave ought to be more generous in our regard for free will and in gratitude for our guarding of it.
  — Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review, 28 Feb. 2022
• But determinism and fate vs. free will are not the main focuses of the play.
  — Jack Butler, National Review, 3 July 2021
• Audiences that got hooked on the first two seasons for free will now have to pay for Prime to get a third season.
  — Josef Adalian, Vulture, 15 Dec. 2023
• The free will we are each born with is the most important gift presented to us as humans.
  — Sesil Pir, Forbes, 30 May 2021
• This indicates that the watermelon came off the vine of its own free will.
  — Beth Segal, cleveland, 27 Aug. 2021
• In the democratic state, newspapers express the free will of the people.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 3 Mar. 2022
• Kiss, for their part, point out that crew members, in the end, operated based on their own free will.
  — Ethan Millman, Rolling Stone, 29 Oct. 2021
• Humans have free will to make their own decisions, Spann said.
  — Holly Meyer, USA TODAY, 8 Oct. 2017
• Saying that people have no free will is a great way to start an argument.
  — Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2023
• All statements by conscious beings presuppose both the laws of logic and the free will of the speaker.
  — WSJ, 15 Aug. 2022

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2024