How to Use unencumbered in a Sentence

unencumbered

adjective
  • Bellinger moved about unencumbered when practice opened this week.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Nov. 2021
  • Friends old and new chat unencumbered with sugar dusting their mouths.
    — Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Mar. 2026
  • His beautiful body is no longer with us, but his spirit is free and unencumbered now.
    — Joelle Goldstein, Peoplemag, 21 Sep. 2023
  • With the gear removed, the humpback whale swam away unencumbered.
    — Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 5 Oct. 2022
  • The baby should be on his back and unencumbered by blankets or pillows.
    — Ann Ledbetter, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 Jan. 2018
  • This is racy and fresh, with flavors of nectarine and mango, unencumbered by oak.
    — Dave McIntyre, Washington Post, 27 July 2023
  • In Brussels, people will be free to walk unencumbered in most places.
    — Lorne Cook, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 June 2021
  • The oil tycoon was known as much for his unencumbered tongue as his ruthless business acumen.
    — Polina Marinova, Fortune, 12 Sep. 2019
  • When unencumbered, the body can regulate blood pressure on its own.
    — Theresa Gaffney, STAT, 27 Jan. 2021
  • The survivors and a bunch of new kids can start the season fresh and unencumbered by the disastrous way the last one played out.
    — Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 12 Feb. 2025
  • In it, human conceits fade to the background, and what is left is just unencumbered, flowing time.
    — Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 26 July 2021
  • What the franchise does not have, at least not for the time being, is a team nickname unencumbered by legal red tape.
    — Sean Gentille, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
  • So screaming out loud, unencumbered, to achieve this kind of release has been delicious medicine.
    — Aubree Nichols, Vogue, 29 Dec. 2020
  • Such unencumbered sightings are guaranteed to bring awe to children and adults alike.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Apr. 2026
  • The joy that comes from being able to run and move unencumbered must have come to her then, along with the despair that comes when that freedom is gone.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 17 Sep. 2022
  • Order a daiquiri or pina colada to wash it down with and enjoy the unencumbered views of the crashing waves.
    — Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 1 Nov. 2025
  • Something unencumbered by the long-standing legacy frameworks that can weigh you down.
    — Michael Schneider, Variety, 13 May 2024
  • For the last round, participants were allowed to use their unencumbered hand.
    — cleveland, 28 July 2023
  • That leaves passengers largely unencumbered and exposed in the low-slung cars.
    — Arthur Levine, USA TODAY, 12 Aug. 2019
  • The ascent of Browning to an unencumbered starting role is about more than sliding a co-starter over to fill a hole.
    — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 20 Feb. 2020
  • Years back, a Tentsile tent light enough for unencumbered backpacking or bikepacking seemed little more than a pipe dream.
    — New Atlas, 25 Mar. 2026
  • The scarier idea, though, is that there are more Duntsches running around, unencumbered by lawsuits and a dogged reporter.
    — Rebecca Farley, refinery29.com, 15 June 2019
  • The sense of cards, discrete and numbered, being turned over gets in the way of a viewer’s free perception and unencumbered thought.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2022
  • Air Riders is unencumbered by that, able to break racing game conventions and throw all sorts of madness at the screen.
    — Ryan Gaur, Rolling Stone, 19 Nov. 2025
  • Over $12 million more was returned as unencumbered funds, which means the companies dropped out.
    — Dallas News, 20 June 2021
  • To give it its due, large sliding doors leading to porches on both the lower and upper levels keep the sightline unencumbered.
    — Patricia Shannon, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 Apr. 2026
  • For now, though, Kirpal still sat in the dining room in his wheelchair, feeding himself, his limbs unencumbered.
    — Rachel Heng, The New Yorker, 31 May 2021
  • Adults may construe a child’s life as unencumbered, but kids actually have very little control over what happens to them.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 12 Dec. 2025
  • For now, though, Rue looks truly happy, smiling an unencumbered, guileless smile.
    — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 1 June 2026
  • With lobsters out of the picture thanks to fishermen, everything else was free to settle and grow unencumbered.
    — Christie Wilcox, Discover Magazine, 27 Aug. 2018

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