How to Use free-for-all in a Sentence

free-for-all

noun

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• And, while not the virtual free-for-all of city streets, urban air space changes unpredictably and, potentially, without notice.
  — Marc Wortman, Rolling Stone, 25 Dec. 2023
• But in the hydrological free-for-all, the region’s underground water, a legacy of wetter times, is running out.
  — Fred Pearce, WIRED, 9 Mar. 2024
• But in the 48 hours Russell was missing, the nationwide manhunt for the woman shifted into a conspiracy free-for-all online.
  — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 18 July 2023
• Much of the debate devolved into a free-for-all, which is not necessarily the fault of MacCallum or Bret Baier, the other moderator.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 24 Aug. 2023
• Recent hosts have reflected this division with a kind of a free-for-all negativity.
  — Fran Hoepfner, The Atlantic, 10 Mar. 2024
• That was a period of relative free-for-all migration, with huge flows into Italy and especially Greece.
  — Stefano Pitrelli, Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2023
• So to prevent free-for-all chaos in following years, Dearborn Music devised its wish list protocol to keep avid vinyl fans in a neat, orderly and organized line.
  — Kylie Martin, Detroit Free Press, 20 Apr. 2024
• The period leading up to April 1894, when Edison licensed the first Kinetoscope parlor, was a free-for-all of competing and convergent technologies.
  — Nat Segnit, Harper's Magazine, 4 Mar. 2022
• Since then, the race to be the alternative candidate to Trump has morphed into more of a free-for-all, setting up attacks Wednesday -- especially on DeSantis.
  — Tal Axelrod, ABC News, 23 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024