Example Sentences

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Unbeholden to the demands of the marketplace, public media would ideally be able to reach audiences that might not be targeted by commercial broadcast networks and their advertisers.

From Salon • May 8, 2017

Unbeholden to any single advocacy group or political party, organizers established an unapologetically progressive platform that recognized the breadth of issues that affect women’s lives.

From Slate • Jan. 22, 2017

Lo, what hath he seen or known, Of the way and the wave Unbeholden, unsailed on, unsown, From the breast to the grave?

From Poems & Ballads (First Series) by Swinburne, Algernon Charles

Unbeholden unto art— Fashion or lore, Scrip or store, Earth or ore— Be thy heart, Which was music from the start, Music, music to the core!

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 by Various

Ye who regret suns that have set, Lo, each god of the ages golden, Here is enshrined, ageless and kind, Unbeholden the dark years through.

From The Centaur by Blackwood, Algernon