Sample Sentences for
free rein
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    Didn't you say that the whole affair had been bungled, and that you should have been given a free rein from the first?  (source)
    free rein = permission to act free of constraints
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    A chill snaked down her spine, but she shook her head, just as a guard entered and told them that Brullo had ordered them to have free rein of the training hall today and to practice what they wanted.  (source)
    free rein = unconstrained use
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    And where Nina would not hesitate to cut someone off in mid-assertion in order to make a contrary point and then declare the matter decided once and for all, Sofia would listen so attentively and with such a sympathetic smile that her interlocutor, having been given free rein to express his views at considerable length, often found his voice petering out as he began to question his own premises….  (source)
    free rein = freedom
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    Unlike Hall, who insisted that our group stay together while climbing above Base Camp, under the close watch of the guides, Fischer believed in giving his clients free rein to go up and down the mountain independently during the acclimatization period.  (source)
    free rein = freedom
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    Some believe it's a carryover from the old days of the Kennedy heritage in Ireland, where the leader of a clan commonly had free rein to sleep with women outside of marriage.  (source)
    free rein = permission to act free of constraints
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    We also have a contract which explicitly gives me free rein to make the editorial changes I deem necessary.  (source)
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    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.  (source)
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    These might form a certain image or pattern—at least, if we give our imagination free rein.†  (source)
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    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.†  (source)
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    Fishermen sometimes shot duck loads at them, but for the most part the gulls were given free rein on the docks; their gray white droppings stained everything.†  (source)
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    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.†  (source)
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    As a member of the Red Branch, however, he had free rein of the Archives.†  (source)
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    If I were given free rein, dominion over her body, I knew I'd discover it by instinct.†  (source)
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