How to Use freelancer in a Sentence

freelancer

noun
  • The freelancer’s face was burned and his jaw was split open.
    Hazem Balousha, Washington Post, 19 Mar. 2024
  • But the other freelancer and I are paid out of the same pot of money.
    Roxane Gay, New York Times, 21 May 2021
  • As a freelancer, there won't be a shortage of tasks to do.
    Sho Dewan, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
  • To best align, include the freelancer in the scoping process.
    Matthew Mottola, Forbes, 2 June 2021
  • The Covid-19 tax break for gig workers and freelancers.
    Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 22 July 2024
  • This week, freelancer Basem Wasef joins the Window Shop crew for the first time.
    Tony Quiroga, Car and Driver, 25 Sep. 2020
  • There's lots of great ways for a freelancer to make some money.
    Gene Marks, chicagotribune.com, 20 Dec. 2017
  • Fast forward to the 1.5-year mark and our team of freelancers was growing.
    Ginni Saraswati, Rolling Stone, 16 Mar. 2023
  • See the photos by freelancer Shane Wynn, who was there to capture some of the highlights of the fest.
    Jennifer Conn, Akron Reporter, cleveland.com, 15 Oct. 2017
  • Upwork makes its money by taking a cut of the cash paid to the freelancer.
    Theodore Schleifer, Recode, 24 July 2018
  • If so, where to start in putting value-for-the-freelancer into the equation?
    Jon Younger, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2021
  • With productions stalled, the prospect of something in the works gave freelancers hope.
    Olivia B. Waxman, TIME, 8 May 2024
  • Such was the case for Megan Belden, a 25-year-old freelancer from San Francisco.
    Natalie Johnson, NBC News, 29 June 2021
  • Alexandria first pitched the story as a freelancer last fall.
    Sfchronicle Pr, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 July 2021
  • As a freelancer, Montague sets aside a specific time block to stay on top of her work.
    Jacqueline Yoo, ABC News, 14 Feb. 2020
  • And because of that, a lot of freelancers have expressed their concerns over the flat-rate pricing.
    Tamara Fuentes, ELLE Decor, 13 Mar. 2018
  • The first is to cut down on all of the driving done by freelancers who collect scooters at night for charging.
    Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 2 Aug. 2019
  • The freelancer claimed someone else had posted the videos in an act of sabotage.
    New York Times, 21 July 2022
  • Like all freelancers, the next gig comes through contacts, word of mouth and old-fashioned cold calling.
    Rob Hodgetts, CNN, 31 Aug. 2017
  • Anyone who has been a freelancer knows the pain of trying to get paid in a reasonable amount of time, let alone on the time at all.
    Rachel King, Fortune, 31 Mar. 2022
  • But most freelancers need to invoice customers and wait.
    Joyce M. Rosenberg, USA TODAY, 3 Nov. 2017
  • The freelancer said the man was wearing a hat bearing the insignia of Patriot Prayer.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 Aug. 2020
  • At the time, Castro was a freelancer, doing wardrobe on photo shoots.
    Zan Romanoff, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2023
  • But of course most freelancers today are not working through apps.
    Eric Johnson, Recode, 29 Aug. 2018
  • Most of these people are freelancers, called in from around Louisville on any given night to help out with a broadcast.
    Lucas Aulbach, The Courier-Journal, 23 Dec. 2019
  • Some forecasts project as many as half of all U.S. workers could be freelancers within the next decade, many of them by choice.
    Lorraine Mirabella, baltimoresun.com, 29 Nov. 2019
  • Nothing is better in a freelancer’s day than to feel you’ve earned your pleasure.
    Daniel Mendelsohn, Town & Country, 1 May 2021
  • Schick, who was hired as a part-time Globe reporter and web producer, and freelancer.
    Erika Butler, The Aegis, 10 Jan. 2018
  • His daughter, Lucy, had also worked as a freelancer on some of Neeson's projects, per the outlet.
    Becca Longmire, People.com, 12 Feb. 2025
  • This person put their name to their comments and screenshots of their post have been circulating in the UK freelancer community.
    Jake Kanter, Deadline, 6 Feb. 2025

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