Example Sentences

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Human bodies that seem somehow unbeholden to the laws of physics and gravity do inspire awe, but spectacle is just one facet of this modern circus group.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 2, 2024

Or were they true artists, fearlessly unbeholden to market pressures as they pushed a new medium to its boundaries and beyond?

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 25, 2022

Has she made friends, learned things, gained work experience, and will now one day be a 35 year-old woman unbeholden to a student loan officer?

From Salon • Sep. 6, 2021

The freedom that contemporary art claims for itself — its sense of being unbeholden to rules or convention — is one of the things I love about it.

From Washington Post • Dec. 12, 2019

To be free, unbeholden, lord of himself and his surroundings—that is the wine of life to a mountaineer.

From Our Southern Highlanders by Kephart, Horace