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

He conjured up a Wild West he’d only passed through, imagined a Black experience he hardly knew, wrote poetry unbeholden to any tradition.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 21, 2021

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

Do ye guess our choice is, Being unbeholden, To be hearkened by you yet again?

From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett