Below you will find example sentences with "free speech". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.

Free Speech in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 20
  • Discovered as a combination around: speech
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 45
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 28.3 words

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 5 start, 10 middle, 5 end
  • Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "free speech" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 28.3 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as academia toward free speech principles central, adhere to free speech principles because, hate, act and once stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with hate speech, free agent, free trade, hate speech and speech recognition, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with free speech

This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:

Hate speech or free speech? (5 words)

In that sense, the concept of “hate speech” is not compatible with free speech. (14 words)

Instead of supporting free speech, progressives label all opinions that differ from their own as hate speech. (17 words)

For a president who signed an executive order promoting pro-conservative “free speech zones” on college campuses, Trump’s silence in the face of direct Chinese aggression is an indication of just how narrow his view of free speech really is. (41 words)

The courts have been active on the issue of free speech, but Walker does not seem to accept the fact that there must be limits on hateful, threatening and inciteful speech and that there must be consequences for violating those limits. (41 words)

The speech of those celebrating Hamas is protected by the First Amendment on public university campuses and at private universities that choose to adhere to free speech principles, because there is a right to express all ideas, even very offensive ones. (41 words)

Hate speech or free speech? (5 words)

Example sentences (20)

It is, quite literally, free speech, and using good free speech to drown out bad free speech, which is exactly how all of the idealist platitudes about free speech say that it's supposed to work.

Many of them consider free speech to be a tool of the powerful to keep them in power, so they support their own free speech (or that of marginalized groups) while opposing the speech of others.

Cotton said he hopes the Campus Free Speech Restoration Act will help reorient academia toward free speech principles central to the nation’s founding.

I guess that's fair, people who don't have free speech in Russia shouldn't have free speech in other countries as well.

Despite the fact that he styles himself as a free speech warrior, Musk has also made it very clear that he’s not keen on certain forms of free speech.

For a president who signed an executive order promoting pro-conservative “free speech zones” on college campuses, Trump’s silence in the face of direct Chinese aggression is an indication of just how narrow his view of free speech really is.

Twitter, which one of its executives once called the "free speech wing of the free speech party," remains a lonely holdout on Jones.

Cambridge lecturer Professor Arif Ahmed has been appointed as the director for freedom of speech and academic freedom at the Office for Students with the role of promoting free speech at universities.

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Hate speech or free speech?

Tech experts believe that safe harbour is a crucial tenet for ensuring free speech on the Internet since platforms only have to act on speech that is deemed illegal.

The left, who once were the champions of free speech, now shut the speech down as quickly as possible once it veers away from their ideology.

Bridget Phillipson said on Friday she would “stop further commencement” of the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act 2023, just days before the new free speech tsar’s powers were due to come into force.

Britain’s last Conservative government passed a that it said would promote free speech at universities but that critics said could be used to protect hate speech; the new Labour government halted it.

In that sense, the concept of “hate speech” is not compatible with free speech.

Musk claims X was built around free speech absolutism, but that has increased scrutiny from advertisers and regulators concerned with hate speech on the platform.

The courts have been active on the issue of free speech, but Walker does not seem to accept the fact that there must be limits on hateful, threatening and inciteful speech and that there must be consequences for violating those limits.

The speech of those celebrating Hamas is protected by the First Amendment on public university campuses and at private universities that choose to adhere to free speech principles, because there is a right to express all ideas, even very offensive ones.

By the way, Areo is short for Areopagitica, a speech delivered by John Milton in defense of free speech.

Instead of supporting free speech, progressives label all opinions that differ from their own as hate speech.

Murray delivers his address, which attempts to justify British colonialism in India As soon as he concludes his bigoted speech, the students’ leader, Girindra Mukerji, utilizes the same right to free speech Murray has exercised.

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