Sample sentences for FREE REIN

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Definition

an idiom indicating that one can act free of constraints

I wanted to marry you and protect you and give you a free rein in anything that would make you happy—just as I did Bonnie.
Margaret Mitchell -- Gone with the Wind

I've given you free rein, always.
J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Mr. Peale had given him a free rein to wander and enjoy himself after being cooped up in the house.
Laurie Halse Anderson -- Fever, 1793
Didn't you say that the whole affair had been bungled, and that you should have been given a free rein from the first?
J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Just give your native harmlessness free rein—that will please him best.
Thomas Mann -- The Magic Mountain
And with a sinking of her daring spirit she let the horses have free rein.
Zane Grey -- The Thundering Herd
Let'em have free rein, they'd find him quick enough!
J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
That year, Robben Island's commanding officer was Colonel Van Aarde, a rather amiable, harmless fellow who allowed us free rein.
Nelson Mandela -- Long Walk to Freedom
We also have a contract which explicitly gives me free rein to make the editorial changes I deem necessary.
Stieg Larsson -- The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
We rarely are allowed to give free rein to our competitive natures, though they live in us just as strongly as they do in men.
Libba Bray -- Sweet Far Thing
If I were given free rein, dominion over her body, I knew I'd discover it by instinct.
Abraham Verghese -- Cutting for Stone
But when it was indispensable she would, with sorrow in her heart, give free rein to a character of solid iron.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- Love in the Time of Cholera
Besides, her horse was mettlesome, thoroughly aroused, and he wanted a free rein and his own way.
Zane Grey -- The Man of the Forest
Feamster gave me free rein to interview his employees in private and to poke around his business for as long as I liked.
Eric Schlosser -- Fast Food Nation
As a member of the Red Branch, however, he had free rein of the Archives.
Henry H. Neff -- The Fiend And The Forge
She'd given us free rein of the place after she'd shown us our rooms and stuff.
James Patterson -- School's Out - Forever
Meanwhile, furious at these goings on, Ned Land gave free rein to his indignation.
Jules Verne -- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
These might form a certain image or pattern—at least, if we give our imagination free rein.
Jostein Gaarder -- Sophie's World
Is this your way of taking it out on me, giving free rein to these young men?
Homer -- The Odyssey
I did not tell her that they had promised to give me a device which would open the Time Tombs and allow the Shrike free rein... CEO Gladstone had long talks with me.
Dan Simmons -- Hyperion

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