How to Use free zone in a Sentence

free zone

noun
  • Your house should be a pest-free zone.
    — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 5 May 2026
  • The Hill has been a gang-free zone ever since.
    — Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Zhang advises you to set work-free zones.
    — Bryan Robinson, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Here's the lighter side of the news and this is a politics free zone.
    — Ana Johnson, CNN, 15 Sep. 2017
  • The state’s list of gun-free zones will also get a bit shorter that day.
    — Dallas News, 17 June 2019
  • Perhaps that’s why so many people were charmed by the idea of a time-free zone.
    — Shayla Love, The Atlantic, 21 Dec. 2025
  • The Schengen Area is the world’s largest visa-free zone.
    — Olivia Morelli, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Jan. 2024
  • The film is set at a time when phone booths are still extant, but this is not a screen-free zone.
    — Charles McNultytheater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2023
  • Every Southern home should have a phone-free zone.
    — Cameron Beall, Southern Living, 6 Aug. 2025
  • The tech-free zones also create a place for creative work.
    — Rachyl Jones, semafor.com, 23 Jan. 2026
  • Grow amaryllis indoors in pots or outdoors in frost-free zones.
    — Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Nov. 2025
  • Create device-free zones in your home and schedule.
    — Brittney Melton, NPR, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Trump said that gun-free zones around schools allow those places to become a target.
    — Emma Baty, Cosmopolitan, 1 Mar. 2018
  • The first two weeks of the season have been a drama-free zone for the Celtics.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 8 Nov. 2019
  • Create device-free zones in your home and schedule.
    — Andee Tagle, NPR, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Simply plug them in or power them up and take back the yard to enjoy a bug-free zone.
    — Travel + Leisure, 26 June 2020
  • Just, like, nothing’s a big deal, everything’s a stress-free zone.
    — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 14 Jan. 2022
  • There's no sign more inviting to a mass killer than a sign that declares, this school is a gun gun-free zone.
    — Fox News, 4 May 2018
  • Her site offers a list of airlines that boast child-free zones, all of which are in Asia.
    — Hannah Sampson, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Sep. 2019
  • Do children and pets stay out of the kid-free zone (3 feet from the stove) when an adult is cooking?
    — Linda Gandee, cleveland, 13 Oct. 2020
  • But soon after the time-free zone went viral, the story began to crack.
    — Shayla Love, The Atlantic, 21 Dec. 2025
  • In frost-free zones with hot summers, radishes are often grown as a winter crop.
    — Barbara Gillette, The Spruce, 1 Apr. 2026
  • First, protect the early morning and pre-bedtime hours as screen-free zones.
    — Jessica Ewing september 15, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Prepare to mix and mingle, learn something and make your voice heard in a judgment-free zone.
    — D'shonda Brown, Essence, 1 Nov. 2022
  • But just do her a favor and make your home a shiplap-free zone—your future homebuyers will thank you.
    — Perri Ormont Blumberg, Southern Living, 9 Sep. 2019
  • Heavy white smoke rose from a smoldering match factory in the free zone next to the crossing.
    — Albert Aji, BostonGlobe.com, 7 July 2018
  • This judgment-free zone helps young people feel beautiful.
    — Veronica Ortega, CBS News, 22 Mar. 2026
  • The technology-free zone forces you to keep track of your people analog-style.
    — New York Times, 12 July 2018
  • The branches split in a way that the volcano-free zone between the two features results.
    — ArsTechnica, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Opposing the arming of teachers in schools and keeping schools gun-free zones.
    — Nadia Kounang, CNN, 13 June 2018

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