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
Wherever, in any world, a soul, by free-willed obedience, catches the fire of God's likeness, it is set into the growing walls, a living stone.
From Daily Strength for Daily Needs by Mary W. Tileston
Many were the personal differences of the fellows that were submitted to him free-willed for arbitration.
From Buffalo Roost by F. H. Cheley
