How to Use unfree in a Sentence

unfree

adjective
  • There’s no way to remake a film this free in a way that’s unfree.
    — Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 6 Aug. 2023
  • What does liberty mean and how can it be lived in an unfree world?
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2025
  • There are many ways for a country to become unfree.
    — Andrew Marantz, New Yorker, 9 May 2026
  • Such drama, such freedom—in so small a town, and in so unfree an age.
    — Nikhil Krishnan, The New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2022
  • People in unfree countries want the help, need the help, of people in free countries.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 2 Oct. 2024
  • Other places had other forms of unfree or bonded labor.
    — Literary Hub, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Those in unfree or otherwise wretched countries take great risks.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 26 Aug. 2021
  • In that respect, the Radicals found an Italy that was still unfree.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 29 Feb. 2020
  • Landscape and interior, the poet as unfree as all other things seem to be free.
    — Wyatt Mason, Harper's Magazine, 26 Apr. 2024
  • Such a lens shows that the mobility of these women depended on the labor of those who were unfree.
    — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2026
  • There’s a lesson about the relative blunders of free and unfree societies.
    — Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 29 Mar. 2022
  • This is a tragedy not of the freer market that now rules liveries in New York, but of the unfree market that used to.
    — James McCarthy, National Review, 30 Nov. 2020
  • Cuba, Nicaragua, North Korea, and Venezuela are unfree, poor, and failed states.
    — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 7 Nov. 2019
  • Matti and Amanda wrote that my prospective child would be similarly unfree.
    — Elizabeth Barber, Harper's Magazine, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Only that in a highly unfree market, consumers always get fewer choices, at higher prices.
    — Michael Taylor, San Antonio Express-News, 5 Mar. 2018
  • Don’t see Europe divided between free and unfree, see the wholeness that even communism can’t take away.
    — Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 6 July 2017
  • Promoted as a society unshackled from earthly laws, this town is in fact as unfree as possible.
    — Matthew R. Francis, Scientific American, 26 June 2023
  • Majestic places like Beauvoir were sustained by the unpaid labor of unfree workers.
    — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 19 July 2023
  • The leaders in these unfree nations are all taking President Biden’s measure.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 15 July 2021
  • The tide is turning against illiberal regimes in the existential battle between free and unfree nations.
    — J.d. Crowe | [email protected], al, 1 Mar. 2022
  • The year this magazine was founded, 1955, was a study in contrasts — and confrontations — between the free world and the unfree world.
    — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 3 Dec. 2020
  • Uganda’s 2021 presidential election is shaping up to be as unfree and unfair as ever.
    — Bobi Wine, Foreign Affairs, 13 Jan. 2021
  • The human costs of pursuing the truth are horrific—scores of journalists killed every year, worldwide—but the costs of living in an unfree society are even higher.
    — Sebastian Junger, Time, 17 Mar. 2022
  • Why shouldn’t unfree states be expected to work together to place themselves and like-minded regimes on a body that defines their legitimacy to their citizens and the world?
    — Aaron Rhodes, WSJ, 18 Oct. 2020
  • Yet, while troubling, mass surveillance did not prompt most Americans to think that their country had become fundamentally unfree.
    — Stephen Wertheim, The New Yorker, 1 Oct. 2020
  • Even those devising a respectable philosophical pedigree for the free world ignored much that was happening and had happened in the supposedly unfree world.
    — Pankaj Mishra, The New York Review of Books, 21 Oct. 2020
  • As a consequence, people in unfree but commodity-rich (think oil) parts of the world don’t represent a challenge to free countries like the United States.
    — John Tamny, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
  • None of this is to support political relativism; the United States is not, as some dictators like to suggest, as unfree as many other countries.
    — Justin Sherman, Wired, 9 June 2020
  • It’s been said that, with respect to China, Americans will have to choose between free trade and free markets, since China’s policy is to make markets unfree.
    — Cameron Hilditch, National Review, 21 Feb. 2021
  • His economy required no intervention of an authoritarian state to be coercive and unfree.
    — Corey Robin, The New Yorker, 29 June 2024

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