free-willed
Example Sentences
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“A lot of adult, strong-minded, free-willed women made decisions for their own lives.”
From New York Times • May 30, 2018
Party leaders could not have tangled with a more free-willed and insubordinate jousting partner.
From The Wall Street Journal • Aug. 28, 2015
The whole dear notion of one’s own Self—marvelous old free-willed, free-enterprising, autonomous, independent, isolated island of a Self—is a myth.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
On the other hand, free-willed co�peration and understanding were equally out of reach; to enter the conscious mind of these beings was agony for both parties.
From The Short Life by Donovan, Francis
Many were the personal differences of the fellows that were submitted to him free-willed for arbitration.
From Buffalo Roost by Cheley, F. H.
