Not attached to anything

Usage examples of freestanding.

There were no freestanding buildings, only glowing piles of rubble intermingled with huge boulders made of a different, nonluminous mineral.

Three-meter pillars of Italian alabaster around its edge supported a low dome of chiseled bronze openwork, and continued in a freestanding colonnade to the entrance.

All were in freestanding buildings--old schoolhouses, abandoned bars, service stations, general stores, even a retired church or two.

With candles burning in wrought-iron sconces and freestanding candelabra, the atmosphere was positively fantastic.

Carved pillars made of whole tree trunks stood in three rings inside, and two huge freestanding gateposts like Abstract Expressionist totem poles marked the southeastern door.

Many of these platforms still held hoarfrosted tables, overturned chairs, bulbous couches, and freestanding tapestries.

He had seen many indexes, but most of them were small freestanding computers with wireless access to a major library.

There were some astonishing buildings on the skylinefairytale, spires wrapped in the lace of white balconies, a great pearshaped dome of sparkling blue tile, a teetering cuboid fantasy of tinted glass and dressed stone, something like a shimmering sphere divided like the segments of an orange into freestanding slices.

Unlike Spire Vanis, Ille Glaive did not live solely within its walls, and pothouses, stables, barracks, covered markets, pieces of freestanding stonework, broken arches, and lightning-cracked towers spilled from the split skin of its east wall.

She sees a pink Sanyo rice cooker on a small counter, and a narrow white plastic freestanding appliance connected to transparent tubing.

She had anticipated something altogether more grand, something colonnaded and freestanding, something like a stately home which arrested the flow and huddle of cramped London brick.

One of the posters was of the grandest conception of all: a freestanding building sitting like a gaudy jewel in the middle of a ten-cubic-story city park.