Free Lance

Von Trips made the most of these free-lance opportunities and posted strong finishes that showed him, as Mr. Cannell puts it, "unafraid of edging up to, and over, the limit." ❋ Mark Yost (2011)

I need to see my accountant once a month because I'm still working (on a free-lance basis) and have to pay taxes every month. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"Big homes, you can see the money," says Raisa Chernina , a free-lance Russian television producer with a thick accent who is ferrying me around on a recent trip to the neighborhood. ❋ Sumathi Reddy (2011)

But a clean win is hard to find in a free-lance job Spero accepts: trying to recover contraband—or the cash that it brought—stolen from a jailed drug dealer's street operation, which is still a going concern. ❋ Tom Nolan (2011)

For around $400, I would estimate that you could find a respectable free-lance artist to do a sample of five pages. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The publication's owners graciously told him that he was welcome to free-lance as long as he did so without a byline. ❋ Patrick Cooke (2012)

Fox News has reportedly fired free-lance gossip columnist Roger Friedman after he downloaded and reviewed a stolen copy of X-Men Origins: Wolverine. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It is unclear whether the free-lance fruit pickers operate in illegal territory. ❋ Sara Calian (2010)

The term freelance was first used by Sir Walter Scott to describe a medieval mercenary warrior, (a “free-lance”) in his novel Ivanhoe. ❋ Ewillett (2009)

Buster, meanwhile, is a bottomed-out novelist who takes a free-lance assignment for a men's magazine, only to be shot in the face by a high-combustion "spud gun." ❋ Sam Sacks (2011)

Convinced that the movie would redeem me, I swallowed Elizabeth's mandate and dutifully investigated free-lance line editors online. ❋ Rex Pickett (2012)

At Knoll, Ms. Schust played the role of aesthetic visionary, first as a free-lance designer and then as the founding director of the textile division from 1947 until her retirement in 1965. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Pennington and his family were subject to prolonged terror in a country where, for blacks, there was little effective difference between policemen and free-lance thugs. ❋ Sarah Ruden (2011)

RIM directed David Sanchez, a free-lance developer in Sunnyvale, Calif., to a new software package that would let him use common tools for building Web applications to create BlackBerry apps as well. ❋ Phred Dvorak (2010)

In an appearance Thursday on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, it was revealed the Emmy Award-winning actor had been a free-lance artist in the 1970s and '80s, working for The Boston Globe. ❋ Unknown (2009)

question: dude, you want to [come over]? [responce]: yeah, i'm currently free-lancing at a big [firm]. Can we meet later today? ❋ Roelfo (2015)

[Bryan] was [free Lancing] when he [misspelled] half the words in the email he sent his boss. ❋ The Real Bossman (2018)

Free-lance honey badger? They're [just] [making shit up] [now]! ❋ I Know Things (2014)

[Lidya] is a free [lance] [slam piece]. ❋ Manbeast (2006)