freed

Example Sentences

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He has since been released but is refusing to leave the police station until the other activists have been freed.

From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026

This freed him to spend more time with his son.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 7, 2026

It was initially freed from a sandbank by German environmental workers, who dug a channel so it could swim away.

From BBC • May 31, 2026

Sparta’s class of elite warriors were freed from ordinary work, their needs met by slaves.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 26, 2026

While Patrick Henry thought slavery was “repugnant,” he never freed any enslaved people because of the “general inconveniency of living without them.”

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis