How to Use freethinker in a Sentence

freethinker

noun

• This is the language of a company man, not a freethinker.
  — Andrea Long Chu, Vulture, 5 Aug. 2025
• Noah was, even then, according to friends, a pacifist and a freethinker.
  — Scott Cacciola, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2016
• The writing is poised and tidy as well—too tidy, in fact, for a novel whose allegiances are with rebels and freethinkers.
  — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 15 Sep. 2017
• Leia started out as a bold freethinker with ultra-supportive parents, and ended the same with a cool holster.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 22 June 2022
• His chief contribution is to put on center stage a cast of skeptics and freethinkers whom historians often relegate to the wings.
  — D.g. Hart, WSJ, 22 Aug. 2018
• Stanton, like some of the suffragists, was a freethinker who did not attend church and saw Christianity as hostile to women’s rights.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 Aug. 2020
• By this time, however, even in cases where freethinkers were convicted of blasphemy, judges appeared to offer leniency.
  — Kristina M. Lee, The Conversation, 18 Oct. 2024
• These, um, freethinkers were unintentionally encouraged by the airport’s art.
  — Charlie Sosnick, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Dec. 2025
• My mom, like many freethinkers of her generation, butted heads against anything that reinforced the status quo, and let us children grow like wild weeds into our own individuals.
  — Morgan Lockhart, PEOPLE, 29 Nov. 2025
• The central conflict in La Belle Sauvage pits freethinkers against fanatics, which is not simply a conflict between atheists and believers.
  — Sarah Jones, New Republic, 30 Oct. 2017
• Doctors volunteered, but so did nurses, store owners, actors, academics, factory workers and freethinkers – even prisoners about to be executed.
  — Susan E. Lederer, The Conversation, 10 Mar. 2023
• Some were fleeing San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake, while others just wanted to commune with like-minded freethinkers.
  — Lizbeth Scordo, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Nov. 2024
• Because, as well as being a pioneering logician, Russell was an uncompromising freethinker—and an early advocate of free love.
  — The Economist, 16 Apr. 2020
• As a freethinker who had run afoul of both Judaism and Christianity, Spinoza knew that bigotry and fanaticism weren’t just imposed on the people; they were also imposed by the people.
  — Adam Kirsch, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
• When charges of financial impropriety are levied against the Bakkers, Falwell, portraying himself as the couple’s ally, relies on the scandal to rid himself and the movement of its pesky freethinker.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 24 Sep. 2021
• Besides being a screenwriter and author, Chapman himself is an atheist, freethinker, science advocate, and great-great grandson of Charles Darwin.
  — Chris Mooney, Discover Magazine, 4 July 2011
• Marie-Aurore de Saxe, a French noblewoman and freethinker, was painted in the guise of Diana, the huntress, wearing a leopard-print gown with billowing sleeves and a plunging bosom.
  — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2022
• In the ninth century, the irreverent freethinker Ibn al-Rawandi used the fertile intellectual climate of the Abbasid caliphate to question prophecy and holy books.
  — Jacob McHangama, Foreign Affairs, 9 Feb. 2022
• For the last three years, atheist writers, freethinkers, foreigners, religious minorities, gay rights activists and others have been terrorized and killed in Bangladesh by shadowy figures who have struck with machetes and sped off on motorbikes.
  — Geeta Anand and Julfikar Ali Manik, New York Times, 8 June 2016
• The 61-year-old, the oldest in the group, described himself as a freethinker and a proud Russian who wanted to show Ukrainians that not all Russians supported the war — in fact, there were some like him who would fight on their side.
  — Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2022
• Diddy originally addressed the antics during an appearance on The Breakfast Club, saying that as a freethinker, the rapper’s actions are often misconstrued.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 6 Oct. 2022
• Felicie, an intellectual freethinker openly critical of the Fascist regime, headed to California in 1940 on the last steamship to sail from Rhodes.
  — Heller McAlpin, WSJ, 8 Sep. 2022
• By the early 1990s, Eugene had earned itself a reputation as a beacon of progressive-minded irreverence, drawing a pungent mix of weirdos, iconoclasts, and freethinkers.
  — Literary Hub, 10 July 2026
• New intriguing documentary Spaceship Earth follows the ragtag group of freethinkers who became famous for the creation of Biosphere 2, a manmade vivarium in the middle of the desert meant to test whether humans could sustain life on another planet.
  — Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 8 May 2020