free hand
Example Sentences
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My free hand dangles close enough to touch the sand.
From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026
Investors shouldn’t draw their lessons from the relatively free hand government allowed today’s internet giants, from Google and Facebook to Amazon and Netflix, which began as startups and grew into titans of the global economy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
"So I had a free hand to launch reforms, as long as Spain's unity was not endangered."
From Barron's ● Nov. 5, 2025
In the prior regime, Sheridan had been given a free hand creatively and on spending, which Ellison and his new executive team had reportedly signaled might not continue in the same way.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2025
Her expression of intense, agonizing curiosity said the rest, as did the excited way she pranced in place and the soundless giggles that she carefully muffled with her free hand.
From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood
