How to Use for free in a Sentence

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  • But that doesn’t mean the company is giving away lunch for free.
    — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 1 July 2026
  • Sign up for free delivery straight to your inbox … and tell a friend.
    — Tyler Estep, AJC.com, 1 July 2026
  • My sister would stay behind, with the kitten, in a hotel room that had been offered to her for free.
    — Armando Ledezma, New Yorker, 30 June 2026
  • Teams thus have less incentive to preserve cap space for free agency since stars aren't as likely to change hands that way.
    — Bryan Toporek, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • Within a day, a Chinese lab answered by releasing a competing model of its own for free.
    — Craig S. Smith, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • Most providers will retreat your yard for free in between services, but others put a 30-day limit on retreatment.
    — Alora Bopray, USA Today, 1 July 2026
  • Still, the way the ordinance is worded also prohibits teaching yoga for free, Pease pointed out.
    — Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2026
  • Zhao hopes that Nightshade, which is available for anyone to download and use for free, will prove a more effective tool than opt-out schemes and no-crawl requests.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 26 Feb. 2024
  • The exhibit costs $18 for adults, with some discounts available and children 18 and under getting in for free.
    — Jesse Cain, Arkansas Online, 29 June 2026
  • As for the overhead bin concern, most airlines offer to gate check bags for free when bins fill up, so your luggage still arrives at your destination at no extra cost.
    — Iona Brannon, Travel + Leisure, 27 June 2026
  • It's also become common for Musk to make Starlink service available for free in areas where people are reeling from natural disasters and other threats.
    — Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 29 June 2026
  • Squillace, along with Alex Hood, represented Hill for free in his lawsuit against the landowners who’d assaulted him on the Arkansas.
    — Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 1 July 2026
  • California state employees can visit the California Museum for free on the fourth Friday of each month.
    — Anne Ewbank, Sacbee.com, 1 July 2026
  • Hyundai is addressing the issue by allowing drivers to bring their Tucsons into authorized dealers for free instrument panel cluster software updates.
    — Charles Singh, USA Today, 1 July 2026
  • The budget also establishes 22,770 new slots for free or reduced childcare, which Newsom had proposed decreasing.
    — Taryn Luna, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2026
  • Moore purchased all 27 of the shirts the store had and told Tee Shirt University assistant manager Scot Marshall to give them away to fans for free.
    — Natasha Dye, PEOPLE, 1 July 2026
  • Barcelona hopes to secure the veteran defender, potentially for free if his contract with Al-Hilal is rescinded, or for a modest fee, recognizing his unique value at that price point.
    — Tom Sanderson, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • The first of those deals came last fall, when Peacock inked a deal for a bundle with Apple TV, and struck a deal with Walmart to offer Peacock for free to Walmart+ subscribers.
    — Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 29 June 2026
  • Their new terms would drastically limit contract lengths to five years for free agents and six for re-signing players, effectively ending mega-deals like those for Ohtani, Soto, and Guerrero Jr.
    — Dan Freedman, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • All families, regardless of income, that live or work in school district boundaries where at least 80% of children qualify for free or reduced lunch will automatically be eligible to enroll in state preschool.
    — Kate Sequeira, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2026
  • Discussions with Beal The Heat has had discussions with the representation for free agent guard Bradley Beal in the first 24 hours of free agency, according to a league source.
    — Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 1 July 2026
  • The deal comes after a dramatic intervention by Elon Musk, who posted the film on his X account – which has 240 million followers – to download in its entirety for free for 48 hours, from Thursday to Saturday.
    — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 30 June 2026
  • If approved by the FDA and other regulators, COVID-19 cough apps, in which a person records themselves coughing on command, could eventually be used for free, large-scale screening of the population.
    — Megan Scudellari, IEEE Spectrum, 4 Nov. 2020
  • Viewers can watch World Cup matches for free for up to 10 minutes via the Telemundo Deportes YouTube channel, with an option thereafter to convert to a Peacock Premium Plus subscription.
    — Dade Hayes, Deadline, 29 June 2026
  • The Bananas also have TV deals with TNT Sports, The CW and Disney, which has exclusive rights to the Banana Ball playoffs (which will also be available for free on YouTube).
    — Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 30 June 2026

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