Adjective
She took a course in freehand drawing. Noun
gave him free hand in managing the club
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Adjective
On set, 19-year-old artist Chella Man felt right at home in the second floor bathroom painted by Keith Haring; both Haring and Chella use a fluid, often abstract yet heavily emotive, freehand style to express themselves.—Sean Bennett, Teen Vogue, 21 June 2018 And throughout, all kinds of brushes and tools enable an entire palette’s worth of colors to flow, stutter, twist, suffuse and fold, while freehand additions à la de Kooning — and Mr. Green’s earlier work, as well — occasionally flit about.—New York Times, 16 Mar. 2017
Noun
Amid all that, the President boasted of Elon Musk's free hand to fire thousands of government workers in a speech to Congress that was rife with obfuscations and fabrications.—Philip Elliott, TIME, 7 Mar. 2025 Hathaway holds onto her belongings with her free hand.—Angel Saunders, People.com, 28 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for freehand
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