How to Use free love in a Sentence

free love

noun
  • The ’60s and ’70s had free love and psychedelics.
    Mj Franklin, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2025
  • This was the era of free love, so everybody was stoned all the time.
    Isaac Chotiner, Slate Magazine, 12 Oct. 2017
  • By the mid-nineteenth century, this would be called free love.
    Anahid Nersessian, The New York Review of Books, 5 Jan. 2022
  • One thing to be wary of are sites offering free love tarot readings or free online tarot readings.
    Norcal Marketing, Chron, 28 Jan. 2021
  • Many of those who had protested against war and preached free love in the decade before had grown up, settled down and bought homes and cars.
    J.l., The Economist, 5 July 2019
  • Most young people in the sixties did not practice free love, take drugs, or protest the war in Vietnam.
    The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2021
  • Ta-da, here's what happened as a result of all this free love and positive energy.
    Steve Baltin, Forbes, 5 July 2021
  • The free love movement did not produce a more tolerant society.
    Michael Bennett, Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2020
  • The awkward love triangle depicted in the film is true to the free love spirit of the show's origins.
    Jillian Sederholm, EW.com, 4 Oct. 2024
  • But there’s considerably less access to free love in, say, rural areas.
    Gabrielle Smith, SELF, 7 Aug. 2020
  • The president was a crook, their friends were dying, and the previous decade of free love and expression seemed far away.
    Jack Crosbie, Rolling Stone, 17 Mar. 2026
  • Here was strong pot, free love, spectral amusements, acid trips and epic intellection that no one remembered in the morning.
    Dwight Garner, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2020
  • Schutz’s seminars soon became notorious for their embrace of nudity, free love, and drugs.
    Beth Blum, The New Yorker, 24 Sep. 2020
  • His is a more enlightened era, but Hannes, lonely and withdrawn, doesn’t share his classmates’ interest in campus sit-ins and free love.
    Justin Chang, New Yorker, 8 May 2026
  • From the free love movement to emerging regulations, the design team at GM contended with a slew of changes.
    Jackie Charniga, USA Today, 2 Sep. 2025
  • From the free love movement to emerging regulations, the design team at GM contended with a slew of changes.
    Jackie Charniga, Freep.com, 25 Aug. 2025
  • This was the swinging '60s with free love in the air and the House of Windsor was starting to look decidedly stuffy.
    Juliet Rieden, Town & Country, 23 Nov. 2019
  • The younger activists who emerged from the civil rights and antiwar movements practiced free love, fought the police, and occasionally set off bombs.
    Samuel Goldman, The Week, 6 Jan. 2022
  • Keep it small Festivals may emanate a free love kinda vibe, but remember that threesomes are usually bad, and anything more than that is worse.
    Beca Grimm, GQ, 20 Apr. 2018
  • Now, a new reality TV show is set to air in Australia, where the concept of finding a fboy-free love life is the key agenda.
    Alicia Vrajlal, refinery29.com, 14 Dec. 2022
  • Like many of the era’s youthful seekers, Kasabian drifted around the country taking drugs, living in communes and practicing free love.
    Elaine Woowriter, Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Like many of the era’s youthful seekers, Kasabian drifted around the country taking drugs, living in communes and practicing free love.
    Elaine Woo Los Angeles Times (tns), al, 2 Mar. 2023
  • From '70s free love to modern day power suits, her character is forced to develop (and surely turn her into a hair and makeup master).
    Harper's Bazaar Staff, Harper's BAZAAR, 11 Mar. 2015
  • As foreign tourists flock to places like Casablanca in search of drugs and free love, former revolutionaries get caught up in the pursuit of money and power.
    Mark Athitakis, Los Angeles Times, 10 May 2023
  • In the increasingly fierce—if not entirely tangible—fight for the exploding self-driving car market, Lyft stands out for its free love vibes.
    Alex Davies, WIRED, 14 Mar. 2018
  • Comics also exposed a scandalous side to American society with scenes of free love, secret identities, and gender-play.
    Tim Brinkhof, JSTOR Daily, 9 Oct. 2024
  • Woodstock was the peak of the hippie movement, which revolved around free love, recreational drug use and opposition to the Vietnam War.
    Diane J. Cho, PEOPLE, 11 Oct. 2025
  • While there was a sprinkling of back-to-the-land hippies in my town, the free love and sexuality fluidity of the 1960s hadn’t reached us.
    Jennifer Acker, PEOPLE, 8 May 2026
  • If those names conjure images of hazy sunlight, wildflower fields and free love — with Beatles music playing in the background — that is no accident.
    Samantha Conti, WWD, 24 July 2024
  • Steve Easterbrook, an Englishman in Chicago, had to find out the hard way that America is no longer the land of the free — or, in his case, free love.
    Henning Schroeder, Star Tribune, 22 Sep. 2020

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