How to Use free-form in a Sentence

free-form

adjective

• 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 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
• 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 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 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
• 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
• 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
• This article proposes a novel free-form and truss-structured modular self-reconfigurable robot called FreeSN, containing node and strut modules.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 1 Mar. 2024
• The mountainside complex is an engineering feat: its free-form structure was created almost entirely from materials found on-site.
  — Julia Eskins, Travel + Leisure, 31 May 2024
• Ditto his ingeniously asymmetrical phrases, unexpected harmonies and ability to fuse a variety of musical approaches -- post-bop, blues, free-form, classical and more -- into a singular body of work that defies easy categorization.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 8 Dec 2024