How to Use freewheel in a Sentence

freewheel

verb
Definition of freewheelnext
  • 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
  • There’s a foot in a former, freewheeling life, and one in a more responsibility-laden existence.
    — Max Berlinger, Robb Report, 18 June 2023
  • An insecure man competes for the affection of his stepchildren when their freewheeling father breezes back into town.
    — Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2019

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