How to Use free speech in a Sentence

free speech

noun

• The First Amendment guarantees us the right to free speech.
  — WSJ, 19 Sep. 2023
• Under the guise of counter-speech being free speech, the chorus rolled on.
  — Justin Vallejo, SPIN, 6 Apr. 2023
• When the very logic of speech must shift in order for people to be heard, is that still free speech?
  — Jaron Lanier, WIRED, 13 Feb. 2024
• Those are the ones whose free speech rights would be violated by a ban.
  — David Pogue, CBS News, 2 Apr. 2023
• The court ruled 6-3 that free speech rights protected the designer.
  — oregonlive, 17 July 2023
• Chaplin might have been made a symbol of the suppression of the right to free speech and dissent in the McCarthy era.
  — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023
• The crackdown on vendors who use free speech claims to skirt city rules is less clear-cut, officials said.
  — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Oct. 2023
• Short of giving up on free speech, there’s only one way to lower the price of dissent: increase the supply.
  — Time, 12 July 2023
• The Supreme Court has now said states cannot, as forcing artists to create such speech would violate their free speech rights.
  — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 30 June 2023
• The move became a catalyst for Uncle Luke’s fight for free speech that went all the way up to the Supreme Court and laid the groundwork for today’s hip-hop.
  — C. Isaiah Smalls Ii, Miami Herald, 9 Feb. 2024
• Judge Chutkan made clear last week that the boundaries of Mr. Trump’s free speech rights, even as a political candidate, would have to give way to the rules of the court.
  — Alan Feuer, New York Times, 16 Aug. 2023
• Fallout from the Israel-Hamas war has roiled campuses across the U.S. and reignited a debate over free speech.
  — Michael Casey, Fortune, 12 Jan. 2024
• The First Amendment of the Constitution allows free speech, which some can interpret as the right to burn holy books.
  — Armin Langer, The Conversation, 29 Aug. 2023
• California should be the first state defending the right to free speech on the internet.
  — The Editorial Board, Orange County Register, 25 Feb. 2024
• In a complaint filed in September, X argued that the law violates the First Amendment right to free speech.
  — Justine Calma, The Verge, 29 Dec. 2023
• This is true for issues of free speech, economics, privacy, and, now, parental rights.
  — David McGarry, National Review, 15 Aug. 2023
• This free speech battle predates Elon Musk's ownership of the platform.
  — Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica, 8 Jan. 2024
• Some experts and tech companies praised the bill, saying that the stiffest penalties were reserved for the worst forms of content and would not trample on free speech.
  — Vjosa Isai, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2024
• The American Civil Liberties Union objects to it as well, on free speech grounds.
  — Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2023
• The case was widely seen as a test of religious tolerance and free speech in Indonesia.
  — Heather Chen, CNN, 3 Aug. 2023
• But the platform intends to live on as an IT provider powering other platforms focused on free speech.
  — Michael Kan, PCMAG, 14 Apr. 2023
• No critic will ever deter us from our mission to protect free speech.
  — Kevin Nguyen, The Verge, 20 Nov. 2023
• What went on in that Stanford classroom on March 9 had nothing to do with our proud American tradition of free speech.
  — Kyle Duncan, National Review, 29 Mar. 2023
• The Federal Trade Commission is laying the groundwork to stifle free speech.
  — Neil Chilson, National Review, 17 Aug. 2023
• Tiktok's entire case, like talking to that judge, was First Amendment and free speech suppression.
  — Lauren Goode Michael Calore, WIRED, 14 Mar. 2024
• Chemerinsky, who is Jewish, says that the incident is the latest in antisemitic attacks on him and that free speech does not extend to his home.
  — Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2024
• Trump’s team said a gag would be stifling the free speech of a leading GOP 2024 presidential candidate.
  — Devlin Barrett, Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2023
• The lawsuit argues that the law violates the First Amendment’s free speech protection and the 14th Amendment’s equal protection clause.
  — Jo Yurcaba, NBC News, 19 July 2023
• There’s at least a good argument that banning TikTok would violate the free speech rights of users, and the company itself has free speech rights.
  — Larry Seltzer, Spin, 15 Aug. 2023
• The universities have stifled free speech at every turn.
  — Greg Lukianoff, National Review, 25 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024