How to Use freewheel in a Sentence

freewheel

verb

• The man and the rest of his freewheeling pets got closer and continued to yell.
  — Beth Spotswood, SFChronicle.com, 27 May 2020
• The grand dame was dead, and the freewheeling young woman was fashion’s new muse.
  — Véronique Hyland, ELLE, 14 Apr. 2023
• With its rotors freewheeling in the airstream, Vance aimed the chopper in that direction.
  — Eric Adams, WIRED, 8 Apr. 2018
• But most of the time these dishes are freewheeling, not from the New England seafood catalog.
  — Devra First, BostonGlobe.com, 4 June 2018
• Now Prince Muhammad wants to create a new city, Neom, that seems modelled on freewheeling Dubai.
  — The Economist, 2 Nov. 2017
• The best advice may be to get him out of New Jersey and stick him with a head coach who can reign in Wilkerson’s freewheeling tendencies.
  — Conor Orr, SI.com, 28 Feb. 2018
• Despite the kingdom’s wealth, businessmen would rather work in freewheeling Dubai than Riyadh.
  — The Economist, 23 June 2018
• If your NuvaRing falls out, your next steps depend on how long your vagina’s been freewheeling it.
  — Korin Miller, SELF, 25 Jan. 2019
• The whole point of the haircut is to embrace two extremes and Boyega is doing that with those impeccably tight sides and freewheeling length on top.
  — Megan Gustashaw, GQ, 29 July 2017
• Great for shining a light on your freewheeling boho lifestyle.
  — Lauren Ro, Curbed, 1 May 2018
• Against UConn’s freewheeling offensive style predicated on a lot of one-on-one action, the Huskies had a tough time finding open shots.
  — Luke Srodulski, ajc, 24 Nov. 2017
• His book is freewheeling in a way, so collecting and collating his thoughts and quotes into categories was a huge process.
  — Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 7 Nov. 2023
• Back in the mid-aughts, YouTube culture was rougher, weirder and more personal — less a platform for brand-building celebrities, more a sandbox for freewheeling fans.
  — Abby Ohlheiser, Washington Post, 30 Dec. 2019
• The discussion was freewheeling as the families lamented the justice delayed not just for them but also for all the families and friends of victims.
  — Jerry Dunleavy, Washington Examiner, 1 Feb. 2020
• So Postecoglou was replaced by Bert van Marwijk, a man whose claim to fame is turning the freewheeling Dutch into a pragmatic, defense-first team.
  — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 12 June 2018
• The film is a freewheeling sex farce, with a large cast of characters engaging in the mandatory couplings (and thruplings and quadruplings).
  — Mike Hale, New York Times, 28 June 2017
• The frontman, erstwhile essayist, and freewheeling Instagrammer talked to EW via phone about his worst fears, his hopes for the future, and his chili recipe (Cincinnati style, or go home).
  — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 13 May 2020
• That may come in handy as Hong Kong authorities put more restrictions around the city’s once freewheeling film industry.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 18 Feb. 2023
• The tweak doesn’t seem radical — in fact, the rest of Amazon’s freewheeling marketplace has long worked that way, with third-party merchants vying with each other and Amazon for top billing on the site.
  — Ángel González, The Seattle Times, 15 June 2017
• The cocktails are considered, as is the decor (a lone photo of Morrissey, a splash or two of craft-chic geometric patterns), while Whitener’s menu is freewheeling.
  — Garrett Snyder, Los Angeles Magazine, 18 July 2017
• Szasz is a product of a freewheeling European tradition in which the playwright’s script is not held as sacred by the director.
  — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 24 Mar. 2023
• Priebus was never truly empowered as chief of staff to control the White House, a product perhaps of Trump’s freewheeling management style.
  — Rosie Gray, The Atlantic, 29 July 2017
• By contrast, the Tories’ old supporters in the south believe that leaving the EU will unshackle Britain and usher in an era of freewheeling globalism.
  — The Economist, 13 Dec. 2019
• Two decades later, predictions that the communist mainland would become more like freewheeling Hong Kong have proven false.
  — Thomas Maresca, USA TODAY, 29 June 2017
• Both have a reputation for playing freewheeling three-hour shows that create a heart-and-soul connection with the audience.
  — Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 30 Aug. 2023
• But the truth is, summer is meant for freewheeling, ditching obligations (ideally!) and kicking back.
  — New York Times, 12 June 2018
• But the movie, for all its retrograde politics and wham-bam machismo, can also be slick, silly fun — a giddy exercise in freewheeling nihilism, played to the hilt.
  — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 23 Jan. 2020
• That two extra minutes of wobbly legged, freewheeling hockey produces more three-on-three winners.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Mar. 2023
• Sendak’s minutely crosshatched, freewheeling pictures are as familiar and mysterious as the contours of your childhood bedroom in the dark.
  — Elisabeth Egan, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2024
• The testy exchanges and frequent rebukes from the judge underscored Trump’s unwillingness to adapt his famously freewheeling rhetorical style to a formal courtroom setting governed by rules of evidence and legal protocol.
  — Jill Colvin, Fortune, 7 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024