How to Use free-form in a Sentence

free-form

adjective
  • The latest feature in this vein is called free-form ads.
    — Boone Ashworth, WIRED, 16 Mar. 2024
  • Colorful Kokedama Bring the outside in with a free-form hanging moss planter.
    — Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 Mar. 2023
  • To create them, Mariah draws these designs free-form on her clients.
    — Leah Prinzivalli, Allure, 23 Jan. 2025
  • Some like small strips of pastry dropped into the bubbling pot, either free-form and puffy or rolled thin and cut like noodles.
    — Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 30 Dec. 2023
  • From its earliest days, WBCN was known for its free-form style of programming.
    — James Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 21 July 2023
  • The resort boasts a spa, a golden-sand beach, and a free-form infinity pool, as well as a wide array of eateries for all tastes.
    — Jack Tydeman, Travel + Leisure, 7 Oct. 2024
  • The result is a kind of free-form musical version of talk therapy.
    — Joshua St. Clair, Men's Health, 13 May 2023
  • But particularly the classes and some of the more free-form sections in the movie are fully improvised.
    — Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 14 July 2023
  • This was all made through free-form blowing of sodium carbonate glass of Roman origin.
    — Jane Levere, Forbes, 24 Dec. 2024
  • Photo : Become Legendary The angular free-form pool flows around a large patio.
    — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 21 May 2025
  • Any vine lacking a support of its own will turn into a groundcover or will pile upon itself as a sort of free-form shrub or tangle of growth.
    — Miri Talabac, Baltimore Sun, 14 Nov. 2024
  • Rudolph’s free-form use of onscreen effects and graphics extracts in visual form the manic contents of this inner verbal roar.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 14 Feb. 2025
  • The vibe is tropical, even in the midst of a metropolis, especially in the beach rooms with balconies hanging over the sprawling free-form swimming pool.
    — Kathryn Romeyn, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 July 2023
  • The gorgeous free-form pool might just be the most serene place in Africa, and the six luxury huts are wholly original structures, with bathrooms built around behemoth boulders.
    — Kathryn Romeyn, Travel + Leisure, 17 July 2023
  • Today’s chefs can adopt a different style for each course: free-form, organic, futuristic or no plate at all.
    — Julia Moskin, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2024
  • The free-form activities of kids on a block, in any case, represent a very different situation from that of her kindergarten class.
    — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2024
  • The opening and ending of the show are both entertaining, but the free-form, clue-hunting middle section was repetitive and unfocused.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Apr. 2024
  • My buddy Joe, for instance, described his most active group chat with two old friends as a place for free-form spouting of nonsense, a diaristic brain dump best used while waiting in line at the bagel place.
    — Matthew Schnipper, The Atlantic, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Perhaps my next project will be something more free-form, although a kind of magic is transferred between those who mastermind the sets—drawing from the Gothic past or the space-age future—and all of us who build them.
    — Amy Verner, Vogue, 14 Oct. 2024
  • That sort of thing doesn't work well for presentations, though, which often involve images and rearranging things on a free-form layout.
    — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 19 Sep. 2023
  • With 140 tools for drawing and coloring, this is a great value starter kit for your budding young artist that encourages free-form creativity.
    — Tanya Edwards, Parents, 13 June 2024
  • The studio, which has been in operation for over 40 years, made its name in free-form, year-round gardens filled with rich, textural plantings and, often, water features.
    — Elizabeth Stamp, Architectural Digest, 5 Feb. 2025
  • For anyone who loves free-form avant-jazz, Hyphen Dash’s new album, Basement 626, will strike the proverbial experimental chord.
    — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 4 Apr. 2025
  • These include Bruns, whose glossy mixed-media pictures combine free-form gestures with hard-edge shapes produced through stenciling.
    — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 14 June 2024
  • The home’s showcase interior boasts high ceilings, custom art, views of the surrounding rainforest, porthole windows and a free-form Jacuzzi in the living room.
    — Roxana Popescu, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2025
  • And were blood all that her take on Chronology delivered, this free-form biopic would still feel radical, bruising, aggressive in its honesty.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 17 May 2025
  • With 16 high-impact choices (flavors?) like bubblegum pink, creamy butterscotch, and ripe cherry, this kit is your golden ticket to free-form color play.
    — Liana Schaffner, Allure, 21 Sep. 2023
  • On the stand-up stage, comedian Kate Berlant is a lot — a lot of exaggerated faces, a lot of abrupt free-form physicality and a lot of on-a-dime thematic pivots.
    — Leigh-Ann Jackson, Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Af Klint’s brushstrokes tended to be more expressive and free-form, for example, while Cassel’s were more careful, even meticulous.
    — Jay Cheshes, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Freeze any leftover sorbet free-form and enjoy as a granita (scrape with a fork occasionally during freezing to keep it from becoming an icy block).
    — Sunset Staff, Sunset Magazine, 15 Aug. 2024

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