free-for-all
noun
: a competition, dispute, or fight open to all comers and usually with no rules : brawl
also
: a chaotic situation resembling a free-for-all especially in lacking rules or structure
the press conference deteriorated into a free-for-all
free-for-all
adjective
Examples of free-for-all in a Sentence
during the play-offs, fans of the opposing teams clashed in the streets in several free-for-alls
it was a free-for-all when the doors to the arena opened and the crowd rushed in all at once
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And while my guests and I made building our board a free-for-all experience, Delp has a few ideas on really turning it into an event.
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Bryce Jones, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 June 2025
In the season finale, Napoleon’s coronation banquet suddenly balloons from an intimate gathering of 500 to a near free-for-all with 5,000 attendees, leading Antonin to call in every halfway decent cook in Paris.
—Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 11 June 2025
The era between the start of the Clinton administration and the end of the Obama one was not a libertarian/globalist free-for-all.
—David Brooks, Mercury News, 31 May 2025
After that, the typical experience of ordering a burger became a culinary free-for-all.
—Phillip Valys, Sun Sentinel, 29 May 2025
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Bryce Jones, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 June 2025
In the season finale, Napoleon’s coronation banquet suddenly balloons from an intimate gathering of 500 to a near free-for-all with 5,000 attendees, leading Antonin to call in every halfway decent cook in Paris.
—Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 11 June 2025
The era between the start of the Clinton administration and the end of the Obama one was not a libertarian/globalist free-for-all.
—David Brooks, Mercury News, 31 May 2025
After that, the typical experience of ordering a burger became a culinary free-for-all.
—Phillip Valys, Sun Sentinel, 29 May 2025
See All Example Sentences for free-for-all
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“Free-for-all.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/free-for-all. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.
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