How to Use free will in a Sentence

free will

noun
  • He argues that all humans have free will.
  • In the tug of war between fate and free will, here the victor is the former.
    Washington Post, 24 Dec. 2019
  • This is the planet of free will and we have all been given this gift.
    Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 25 Aug. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Having free will is a reminder that kindness, no matter how big or small the effort, is a choice.
    Elizabeth Berry, Woman's Day, 26 May 2022
  • Filming hands-free will be great for so many content creators.
    Essence, 22 Oct. 2021
  • One of the adult women told deputies everyone was there by their own free will, and Bateman was released.
    Miguel Torres, The Arizona Republic, 8 Dec. 2022
  • Hazel and Byron debate the meaning of free will and happiness.
    Jessica Goldstein, Vulture, 15 Apr. 2021
  • The poem has been interpreted in many ways: as a statement on free will, a metaphor for the darkness of the mind, a love letter to the unknown.
    Robert Frost, The Atlantic, 19 July 2021
  • The dual avatars move between the U.K., Egypt and an asylum while fighting to preserve free will for humankind.
    Lorraine Alitelevision Critic, Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2022
  • The pods grow exact copies of humans, only these doubles lack free will and emotions.
    Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 6 Aug. 2020
  • In an e-mail to Quartz on Oct. 21, Genpact said the employees going to offices were choosing to do so of their own free will.
    Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz India, 22 Oct. 2020
  • It’s run by Dreykov (Ray Winstone), a heartless man who has developed a way to control free will.
    Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 30 June 2021

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