How To Use Free-for-all In A Sentence
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But there will certainly not be another overnight free-for-all.
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However, what was once a test of strength that pitted one man against a raging bull is now a free-for-all in a large open space.
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How did this land of plenty descend into a perilous free-for-all?
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History was treated as an atemporal free-for-all, even by magazine designers Wet Magazine, by April Greiman and Jayme Odgers.
This week's new exhibitions
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The free-for-all was an event where the clowns fought each other with oversized mauls for ten minutes.
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A controversial penalty decision sparked a free-for-all at the end of the match.
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The music is loud and intense, and the dancing is more like a free-for-all karate-match than a style.
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In its final traditional Rose Bowl race — starting next season, the conference's Bowl Championship Series berth will be decided by a league title game — the Big Ten has a four-way free-for-all going.
The Big Ten Free-For-All
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The lowering of trade barriers has led to a free-for-all among exporters.
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Why, in this age of cynicism, sexual free-for-all and the quickie no-fault divorce, do people still get married?
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A visitor to an early 20th century camp described the lumberjacks sitting around the box stove in their barrack-like shanty enjoying a ‘free-for-all’ - playing checkers, poker or cooncan, reading, writing letters and talking.
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The curators can be applauded in their attempt to give structure to the traditional free-for-all.
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Lately, the gated property has become a free-for-all, with animals and children hanging out on the site.
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According to MC Ben Barren, Friday December 16 is when local and interlocal Web entrepreneurs, coders, journos, hangers-on and relatives of Michael Leone will come together to discuss goings on in the Web 2.0 world, and to participate in the feeding-time-at-the-croc-farm free-for-all that is the demo/presentation process as Ben eloquently puts it, "we turn your Web 2.0 demo into Jam".
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An enterprise economy is not, as caricatured by statist propaganda, a devil-take-the-hindmost free-for-all.
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Prompt action by prison staff prevented a violent free-for-all.
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Press reports described the $1 million party as a wild, indulgent free-for-all, studded with shiny, red Ferraris, feathered showgirls and an Egyptian theme.
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Other high-ranking officials fear mobile phone footage of the free-for-all could tarnish the force.
The Sun
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There's no real message - it's a bit of a free-for-all with no-one and nothing escaping unscathed.
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But in practice, it has been a free-for-all, according to those who have enjoyed the perks of the job.
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To the surprise of the Alabamians, the men of the 69th, although Irish and reputedly anti-black, often stood up for their duskier comrades, jumping in to help in free-for-alls, or where a group of Southern “gentlemen” were harassing a lone black soldier.
June 12th, 2009
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While they watched their country disintegrate, the war became an international free-for-all.
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Some Singaporeans chimed in, asking 'how can Orchard Road be a world-class shopping haven and rival other major cities such as Tokyo when it is a free-for-all zone for anyone to hawk their stuff?', perhaps in reference to the "particularly irksome", "cacophonous" strains of buskers trying to make a living amidst the noise of nearby roadshows.
The Online Citizen
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The row between the Prime Minister and the opposition leader soon developed into a free-for-all between MPs from all parties.
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The outcome will be a sexual identity free-for-all, and a further descent into a moral vacuum.
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So the actual governing of this situation here right now is a little bit of a free-for-all.
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The row between the Prime Minister and the opposition leader soon developed into a free-for-all between MPs from all parties.
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Now imagine that instead of a bilateral face-off, the next cold war will be a nuclear free-for-all.
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Everyone knows that sailing on the Auckland harbour is a free-for-all.
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Governor Peter Leonard, who launched an inquiry yesterday, said only prompt action by staff prevented a violent free-for-all.
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The roundabout had no markings before and sometimes could be a bit of a free-for-all, but everyone was used to it and I never heard of any crashes there.
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Driving in Colombo's permanent rush-hour is a free-for-all in which the most daring chancer wins.
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We would agree to a number of cabs to take up any untaken demand but they have turned it into a free-for-all.
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Apparently newspaper book review sections are suffering not because the reviews they publish increasingly go unread, or because the newspapers that sponsor them are being irresponsible in abandoning literary/cultural coverage that doesn't fill the financial coffers amply enough, but because of bloggers and their incessant scribbling, their blogs with funny names, and their goldarned "shallow grandstanding and overblown ranting," their "childish free-for-alls.
Book Reviewing
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And it provoked larger forces that transformed the demand for affirmative action into a demographic free-for-all.
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After a wild afternoon free-for-all that saw eight players grab a share of the lead in the final nine holes, the 26-year-old South African from Johannesburg emerged from a turbulent field to take a two-stroke victory in the tournament's 75th edition.
Schwartzel Emerges From Masters Mayhem
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First, the scope of censorship has narrowed to such an extent that entire domains are now almost a free-for-all.
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What had been a tightly played game suddenly turned into a free-for-all as the pitcher lost control.
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And that fight was a free-for-all; the referee might as well have sat in the front row.
Times, Sunday Times
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Prompt action by prison staff prevented a violent free-for-all.
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I was completely unprepared for this free-for-all.
Times, Sunday Times
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Since just about anyone can make a citizen's arrest, many situations quickly devolve into free-for-alls.
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After that the game descended into a fraught free-for-all.
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However, exercise-wear is a free-for-all - Chucks, fishnets, sweatbands, legwarmers and vintage band tees all feature, which makes for amusing demonstration shots.
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The cityscape was a granite-and-glass mountain range, all glistening peaks and shadowy valleys of ceaseless life, a throbbing, pulsating, never-resting free-for-all of people and ideas and stories just screaming to be told.
Sins of Two Fathers
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Some are set up for moderated debate, some seem like a free-for-all, and some do not want arguments.
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In the multiplayer game, players can do a free-for-all or divide up into teams, each choosing a vessel from the various races available in the game.
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If human violence is just a vast free-for-all of people merely reacting to the wrongs they've suffered, who started the fights in the first place?
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Do we want these decisions to be planned and to know who the decision-makers are, or do we want to leave it to an industry free-for-all?
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Downstairs the tiny dancefloor reverberated to a kind of deejayed free-for-all in which punk, ska, new romantic, soul, country, reggae, disco and hip-hop collided, no one seeming to bother if you could dance to it or not.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
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The lowering of trade barriers has led to a free-for-all among exporters.
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That sparked a free-for-all in the centre circle which spilled over as both players headed for the tunnel.
The Sun
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In the sixties, he took psychedelic drugs, and much of the art in this exhibit is hallucinatory - a cosmic free-for-all.
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A controversial penalty decision sparked a free-for-all at the end of the match.
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The bad-tempered week-night tie between two clubs in the Hull Sunday League at the city's Costello playing fields ended with a free-for-all as spectators piled onto the pitch and kicked and punched a player on the floor.
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At the heart of Europe's reticence to follow the USA into the information free-for-all is a curious mixture of Continental, right wing dirigisme and social democratic, anti - market prejudice.
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But the crew were forced to turn away the villagers for fear of sparking a dangerous free-for-all.
The Sun
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This free-for-all leads to the economically inefficient use of the resource.
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She is heartbroken that a free-for-all now exists whereby anyone can set up an agency without background checks being done.
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We finally pulled ahead of her at one of the no-lane free-for-alls after the toll booth.
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Certain areas suffered because of the proliferation of mints - money became devalued in many senses not least because the production of money appeared to have become a free-for-all.
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He rued that they were hijacking his Utopian concepts to unleash "a free-for-all fucking epidemic".
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I was looking forward to seeing him go after these two nasty gals in a free-for-all of meanness.
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Yes it had the potential to spill over, to send the coffee and croissants flying in a free-for-all.
The Sun
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Some of the women were opposed to a public forum and felt such a meeting could turn into a free-for-all and there would be no structure to the meetings.
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After establishing a basic rhythmic pattern and singing a verse or two, the group would dive face first into extended, complex, interactive musical free-for-alls.
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The country is just too fragile for a journalistic free-for-all, they say.
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Ushers tried to control the free-for-all as the rest competed for the remaining seats toward the back of the hall.
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But we cannot allow a fracking free-for-all; so here are four conditions to temper this enthusiasm for shale.
Times, Sunday Times
