Below you will find example sentences with "free agent". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Free Agent in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: agent
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 33
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 30.6 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 6 start, 10 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "free agent" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 30.6 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as a restricted free agent will have, a third free agent year, year, contract and sign stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with free speech, free trade, free throw, nerve agent and special agent, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with free agent
This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:
Aldis said one of those free agents is no longer a free agent. (13 words)
LHP Josh Hader (free agent), RHP Dylan Coleman (trade), C Victor Caratini (free agent). (14 words)
Brady would technically be free to sign with anybody, as he is currently a free agent. (16 words)
When you go, when you get a DeShon Elliott, who’s a free agent, you bring in Donte Jackson, who’s a free agent, and you’re starting to put some of these pieces together to try to build a team, that’s different for Pittsburgh. (46 words)
The 27-year-old winger was set to be an unrestricted free agent next summer, free to sign with any team he desires, but before the final season on his current contract even begins, he has knocked that possibility out the window. (42 words)
Trade/free agency targets: Melbourne’s Alex Neal-Bullen has requested a trade to Adelaide for family reasons, while GWS unrestricted free agent Isaac Cumming chose the Crows over the Power on a four-year deal, with a trigger for a fifth. (42 words)
Example sentences (20)
By using the franchise tag to keep Jackson off the free agent market, DeCosta tied up $32.4 million when the free agent shopping window opened in March.
He’s playing out the final season of a four-year free-agent contract he signed with Washington as a free agent in 2019, and his cap hit is $1.5 million per season.
Since nearly every NFL team carries three or more quarterbacks into training camp, expect the Patriots to bring in another to complement their current duo, be it a veteran free agent signing, draft pick or undrafted free agent.
LHP Josh Hader (free agent), RHP Dylan Coleman (trade), C Victor Caratini (free agent).
The Giants could sign a free agent in the hopes of striking gold with a reclamation project as the Seahawks did with Geno Smith or the Vikings did with Sam Darnold — Zach Wilson is a free agent this year.
When you go, when you get a DeShon Elliott, who’s a free agent, you bring in Donte Jackson, who’s a free agent, and you’re starting to put some of these pieces together to try to build a team, that’s different for Pittsburgh.
Free agent pitcher Gerrit Cole may be a very wealthy non-free agent before baseball's Winter Meetings conclude, a veteran MLB insider reports.
The Yankees get cost certainty over Judge’s potentially historically expensive arbitration years as well as buy out two free agent years with an option for a third free agent year.
Whether he becomes an unrestricted free agent or a restricted free agent will have a huge impact on how and where he goes.
Why doesn’t he finish the contract he has and become a free agent when he is entitled to be a free agent.
Murray would also sign free agent forward Clarke MacArthur to a two-year contract that same day and would sign free agent defenceman Joe Corvo to a one-year contract three days later on July 8, 2013.
And PSG have made it clear that they won’t lose him for free next summer when he can walk as a free agent.
Brady would technically be free to sign with anybody, as he is currently a free agent.
Cameron Sutton will be a free agent if he is not re-signed before free agency begins and Ahkello Witherspoon is a huge question mark after his poor season plus injury that kept him out for over half of it.
If they do, the Steelers are predicted landing spots for two free agents inside the top 50 of Pro Football Focus’ free agent rankings, at least according to PFF’s Arjun Menon and Brad Spielberger.
With defensive lineman Dre’Mont Jones expected to test the free agent market, the Broncos might be in the market for a defensive lineman in free agency.
Aldis said one of those free agents is no longer a free agent.
But Pogba left United on a free transfer in 2022, 10 years after he last left the club as a free agent, having won just the Europa League and the League Cup in six years.
The 27-year-old winger was set to be an unrestricted free agent next summer, free to sign with any team he desires, but before the final season on his current contract even begins, he has knocked that possibility out the window.
Trade/free agency targets: Melbourne’s Alex Neal-Bullen has requested a trade to Adelaide for family reasons, while GWS unrestricted free agent Isaac Cumming chose the Crows over the Power on a four-year deal, with a trigger for a fifth.