How to Use free will in a Sentence

free will

noun
  • He argues that all humans have free will.
  • So humans still have free will.
    — John Werner, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026
  • Two-thirds of the men pushed the button of their own free will.
    — Marta Balaga, Variety, 29 Jan. 2026
  • This young man may have chosen to do evil, of his own free will, over and over.
    — WSJ, 25 May 2022
  • Is there such a thing as free will, or has this been planned out like a cosmic recipe?
    — Robert McCoppin, Chicago Tribune, 4 July 2022
  • Is there such a thing as free will, or has this been planned out like a cosmic recipe?
    — Anchorage Daily News, 5 July 2022
  • This is the planet of free will and we have all been given this gift.
    — Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 25 Aug. 2023
  • For billions of years on this planet, there was life but no free will.
    — Jonny Thomson, Big Think, 20 Aug. 2025
  • So does Serle believe more in fate or free will?
    — Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 10 Mar. 2026
  • In the tug of war between fate and free will, here the victor is the former.
    — Washington Post, 24 Dec. 2019
  • Ford taking free will back from the hosts and taking over Bernard's mind.
    — Kayleigh Roberts, Marie Claire, 4 June 2018
  • Nick Shadow, the devil, is chained to hell, to show his lack of free will.
    — Mark Swed, latimes.com, 7 June 2019
  • 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
  • Saying that people have no free will is a great way to start an argument.
    — Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2023
  • Humans have free will to make their own decisions, Spann said.
    — Holly Meyer, USA TODAY, 8 Oct. 2017
  • In this scheme, free will was feeble, and sin could be blamed on dark forces inhabiting the body.
    — Shai Tubali, Big Think, 30 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • Once Kang died, Strange got some of his free will back along with the entire timeline.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 18 Apr. 2022
  • But Bernard gets a little bit of his free will back (maybe) and deletes Ford's code from his head.
    — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 17 June 2018
  • Don’t name somebody directly because that usurps their free will.
    — Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 18 June 2026
  • The concert is free and open to the public; a free will offering will be taken.
    — Orlando Sentinel Staff, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 Mar. 2025
  • The concert is free and open to the public; a free will offering will be taken.
    — Orlando Sentinel Staff, Orlando Sentinel, 19 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • At the same time, the virtue of free will grants us opportunity and meaning to our lives.
    — Rabbi Dr. Kenneth Brander, Sun Sentinel, 26 Mar. 2025
  • Jesus had free will and made the decision to be obedient to the will of God.
    — baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 23 Apr. 2021
  • All of the Innies are waking up to their own humanity and free will.
    — Devon Ivie, Vulture, 21 Mar. 2025
  • The great struggle of his thought — the tension between free will and grace — would occupy him for the rest of his life.
    — Shai Tubali, Big Think, 30 Sep. 2025

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