How to Use unfettered in a Sentence

unfettered

adjective
  • This kind of drug use might not be as brave or unfettered as Hart’s.
    — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 29 Apr. 2021
  • Even when he got cleared, he was rarely allowed to play unfettered.
    — Christian Clark | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 6 Dec. 2020
  • Plus, trails and parks are free of summer crowds—which means more unfettered miles for you.
    — Lauren Joseph, SELF, 18 Nov. 2021
  • The idea of unfettered access to firearms feels deeply at odds with my values.
    — Barbara A. Perry, Newsweek, 27 Jan. 2025
  • And some of his patients have had unfettered access to screens for most their lives.
    — Washington Post, 9 May 2022
  • Consider one with a chin strap—the unfettered wind can be fierce.
    — Julia Sayers Gokhale, Midwest Living, 1 June 2026
  • To be sure, unfettered low-cost supply chains are not an end in themselves.
    — Jason Bordoff, Foreign Affairs, 18 Jan. 2024
  • And those meals may play out better if kids don’t have unfettered access to snacks.
    — Tamar Haspel, Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2019
  • The essence of the road trip is more than a sense of unfettered freedom on miles of asphalt.
    — Lewis Gordon, Vulture, 3 Dec. 2025
  • Trump’s ban in the name of unfettered free speech remains unclear.
    — Washington Post, 26 Apr. 2022
  • The spot fires, left unfettered, now grow and begin to converge.
    — Michael Paterniti Kiese Makeba Laymon Carina Del Valle Schorske Dessa Irina Aleksander Sam Dolnick Mark Binelli Maggie Jones Rob Hoerburger Jamie Lauren Keiles Devin Gordon Jazmine Hughes Jenna Wortham Jade Chang Taffy Brodesser-Akner Kaitlyn Greenidge Reginald Dwayne Betts Rowan Ricardo Phillips Wesley Morris Ismail Muhammad Anthony Giardina, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2020
  • That access should not be unfettered.
    — Bill Ready, Fortune, 19 Jan. 2026
  • Full of unfettered hope, an air of justice prevails.
    — Holly Jones, Variety, 11 Aug. 2025
  • In all these cases, users may not want others to have unfettered access to their phone.
    — Cheryl Winokur Munk, CNBC, 16 Sep. 2024
  • Its unfettered access drew fans and journalists from all over the world.
    — Frank Fitzpatrick, Philly.com, 3 July 2018
  • The third is $24 million and unfettered free agency next year.
    — Albert Breer, The MMQB, 22 June 2017
  • The goal is simply to sign and build acts unfettered by attaching labels.
    — Melinda Newman, Billboard, 16 Feb. 2024
  • The internet was largely unfettered, a portal to the rest of the world.
    — New York Times, 7 Mar. 2022
  • There is no other car this side of a Porsche Boxster as unfettered or as well balanced.
    — Car and Driver, 28 Nov. 2018
  • Kate doesn’t need any extra data to grasp the threat posed by unfettered online betting.
    — Max Klaver, Miami Herald, 10 Apr. 2026
  • The show is about unfettered hedonism, in some ways, so there was a little bit of embracing that.
    — Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 12 Dec. 2022
  • There was no enjoyment, not in the sense that an unfettered person understood the term.
    — Literary Hub, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Still, others are concerned about the unfettered growth of data centers.
    — Zach Halaschak, The Washington Examiner, 20 Mar. 2026
  • Those Longhorns played like an unfettered animal that had to either succeed on the hunt or starve.
    — Nick Moyle, ExpressNews.com, 20 Nov. 2020
  • This is about the American people's right to vote, unfettered.
    — Trish Turner and Allison Pecorin, ABC News, 22 June 2021
  • After a brief honeymoon of unfettered speech, pro-regime trolls and surveillance emerged on the site.
    — Jacob Silverman, The New Republic, 9 Apr. 2021
  • The era of growing trade comity, and free and unfettered trade with rivals, is looking more like a fad and less like the end point of a trend.
    — Josh Zumbrun, WSJ, 10 Mar. 2022
  • Inside the exam hall, a big room with long windows, full of quiet, Gabriel felt unfettered.
    — Daisy Hildyard, The New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2024
  • Which is all to say, the solution might be to give in to the unfettered capitalism that got us into this mess.
    — Matt Simon, Wired, 26 Jan. 2021
  • Oh, and what with the tongue-in-cheek posing for the cameras during their show, that fashion needs to get back to some unfettered joy and fun.
    — Mark Holgate, Vogue, 16 Feb. 2019

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