How to Use free-form in a Sentence

free-form

adjective
  • Or do your own thing with free-form shapes.
    — Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 10 May 2026
  • To create them, Mariah draws these designs free-form on her clients.
    — Leah Prinzivalli, Allure, 23 Jan. 2025
  • The result is a kind of free-form musical version of talk therapy.
    — Joshua St. Clair, Men's Health, 13 May 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
  • Colorful Kokedama Bring the outside in with a free-form hanging moss planter.
    — Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 Mar. 2023
  • This was all made through free-form blowing of sodium carbonate glass of Roman origin.
    — Jane Levere, Forbes, 24 Dec. 2024
  • This trend rejects rigidity in favor of free-form seating that doesn't box users in and force them into prescribed spots.
    — Lee Wallender, The Spruce, 4 Mar. 2026
  • The resort boasts a spa, a golden-sand beach, and a free-form infinity pool, as well as a wide array of eateries for all tastes.
    — Jack Tydeman, Travel + Leisure, 7 Oct. 2024
  • The flaky, buttery dough comes together easily in a food processor and is rolled out and crimped into a free-form round.
    — The Bon Appétit Staff, Bon Appetit Magazine, 7 Aug. 2026
  • Outside, a free-form heated swimming pool blends into the surrounding landscape.
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 9 July 2026
  • Not in the dystopian sense of reading free-form imagination or dreams, that’s still beyond current science.
    — Jason Snyder, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
  • Any vine lacking a support of its own will turn into a groundcover or will pile upon itself as a sort of free-form shrub or tangle of growth.
    — Miri Talabac, Baltimore Sun, 14 Nov. 2024
  • Instead of swing sets or seesaws, Noguchi imagined the land itself forming ridges, steps, and mounds that would invite free-form play.
    — Terry Nguyen, ARTnews.com, 10 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • From its earliest days, WBCN was known for its free-form style of programming.
    — James Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 21 July 2023
  • Rudolph’s free-form use of onscreen effects and graphics extracts in visual form the manic contents of this inner verbal roar.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 14 Feb. 2025
  • Experiment with some free-form art without requiring the space of a more intricate design.
    — Sunnah Rasheed, InStyle, 25 May 2026
  • Certain categories, like social hangouts or free-form drawing, are excluded by default for younger users.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Just outside sits The Enigma, a free-form dome made from 1,062 glass triangles.
    — India Amos, Travel + Leisure, 2 May 2026
  • Another approach includes free-form writing.
    — Gregory Stebbins, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • It was long believed that hydrogen didn’t exist in large, accessible, free-form underground deposits.
    — Robert Rapier, Forbes.com, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Freeze any leftover sorbet free-form and enjoy as a granita (scrape with a fork occasionally during freezing to keep it from becoming an icy block).
    — Sunset Staff, Sunset Magazine, 15 Aug. 2024
  • Food and Drink Miraval Arizona’s free-form approach to wellness applies to its dining program, too.
    — Jessica Ritz, Travel + Leisure, 30 Aug. 2026
  • 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
  • And were blood all that her take on Chronology delivered, this free-form biopic would still feel radical, bruising, aggressive in its honesty.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 17 May 2025
  • 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
  • Games featuring free-form drawing, sensitive issues or social hangouts will be excluded.
    — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 13 Apr. 2026

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