How to Use free-range in a Sentence
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There’s enough room for both chickens and a free-range newborn to roam.
—Michael Phillips, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Nov. 2025
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Over the years, many other parents have made the news for their free-range parenting approach.
—Amy Morin, Parents, 30 July 2024
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There are several types to choose from, such as organic, free-range, and heritage breeds.
—Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 28 Nov. 2024
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The wide lawn, which was trimmed constantly by a small, ovoid free-range robot, ran right up to the lake, and became it.
—Caity Weaver, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2025
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Scapin’s mortadella uses the meat of local, free-range pigs, some of which feed on acorns and forest berries.
—Marcia Desanctis, Travel + Leisure, 19 Feb. 2025
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The free-range bison for the steak tartare comes from New Frontier in Virginia.
—Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2024
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Some people like to be micro-managed, and if that’s you, then a free-range environment is not good for you.
—Susan Johnston, Rolling Stone, 27 June 2024
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Yvonne, still shell-shocked from tragedy and staring down a bowl of what looks like free-range vomit, would beg to differ if the vibes weren’t already so bad.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 8 Mar. 2025
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Fresh seafood is caught daily, and the resort serves premium free-range organic poultry.
—Kaila Yu, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2025
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Consider using organic eggs or free-range options for a richer taste.
—Matt Rozo, Mercury News, 26 May 2025
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Chicken wings, for instance, will come from free-range chickens sourced from the Central Valley, and sauces will be made from scratch.
—Kate Bradshaw, The Mercury News, 20 May 2024
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Wild Alaskan Salmon is respected as a delicacy among fish, being free-range and growing to huge sizes.
—Alyssa Edwards, Discover Magazine, 3 Apr. 2024
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Its unsurpassed flavor, texture, and quality are due to the turkey’s age, free-range faring, and hand-picking.
—Kaila Yu, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024
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The beef is 100 percent grass-fed, the chicken is free-range and organic, the pork is humanely raised, and the seafood is wild-caught.
—Women's Health, 19 Apr. 2023
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Doctors are not a flock of free-range chickens wandering about offices and hospitals and making up best practices, one clinician at the time.
—Robert M. Califf, STAT, 6 Feb. 2026
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For example, instead of having an adult enforce many rules of a baseball game, free-range kids are encouraged to play a pick-up game with their pals in the neighborhood.
—Amy Morin, Parents, 5 Mar. 2026
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But meat lovers won't leave disappointed, either — various prime cuts and free-range chicken sourced from local vendors are also available.
—Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure, 10 Apr. 2024
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When poultry producers find infected birds, whether in tight cages or roaming free-range, they basically get paid to kill the entire flock to try and slow down the disease.
—Megha Satyanarayana, Scientific American, 7 Feb. 2025
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Such free-range questions have the downside of letting candidates simply launch word for word into the education section of their stump speeches.
—Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 15 May 2023
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Rather than rushing from violin lessons to soccer practice every day, free-range parents encourage unstructured play.
—Amy Morin, Parents, 5 Mar. 2026
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That means using the highest quality local milk and local cream, free-range eggs, organic sugar, and even making salt from seawater.
—Lindsay Cohn, Travel + Leisure, 9 July 2023
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Understanding the differences between labels like organic, free-range, or pasture-raised could help.
—Theara Coleman, theweek, 22 Nov. 2024
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From organic produce and free-range meats to artisan bread and gourmet cheese, PCC has something for everyone.
—Sunset Story Lab, Sunset Magazine, 8 July 2024
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Miss Manners is not one to attribute all poor behavior to medical problems and to excuse it on those grounds, as many free-range diagnosticians do.
—Judith Martin, Sun Sentinel, 3 Mar. 2026
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Recent menus included lunches of free-range guinea fowl with corn polenta and marinated carrots and dinners of lobster vol-au-vent with white pudding and spinach.
—Marianna Cerini, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Nov. 2023
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The indoor market is comfortable in any weather and offers seasonal produce, as well as free-range meats, fresh eggs, artisan pantry staples, and local art.
—Outside Online, 29 July 2024
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Experts speculated that dry-lot cows can’t sweat as freely as free-range cows, and that weather and feedlot conditions contributed to deadly heat exhaustion.
—Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2026
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On the spectrum of parenting styles, lighthouse parenting hovers right around the middle—not as involved as a helicopter parent, but not as hands-off as a free-range parent.
—Alex Vance, Parents, 20 Sep. 2024
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If a helicopter parent is coupled with a free-range parent, the pair may benefit from working with a therapist or coach to create balance within the family.
—Caroline Silver, Parents, 17 Aug. 2023
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The game’s blocky bizarro aesthetic has given it global recognition; its free-range exploration on a terrain the size of Neptune has earned it over $3 billion.
—Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2025
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