How to Use liberation in a Sentence

liberation

noun
  • The liberation of the city took weeks.
  • But the course of the war has shifted since the liberation of Irpin.
    — WIRED, 10 July 2023
  • Why, in this project of female liberation, must the men still get all the best bits?
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 20 Oct. 2023
  • With the liberation of the Netherlands, Bloch was free.
    — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Jan. 2024
  • The 47th claimed the liberation of Robotyne on Aug. 28.
    — Washington Post Staff, Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2023
  • Rather a way to claim peace, hope and liberation during a time of chaos.
    — Essence, 21 Sep. 2021
  • Lenin fell off it, hurled to the ground by the townsfolk of Lanchkhuti in the first joyful paroxysm of their liberation.
    — Christopher Helman, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Smith was in prison for the Battle of Stalingrad, and the liberation of Auschwitz.
    — Annalisa Quinn, BostonGlobe.com, 5 July 2023
  • The liberation of Snake Island was the key to opening up the inland ports.
    — David Axe, Forbes, 15 July 2022
  • That’s a strange kind of liberation: Areas that were once open to all are now closed — seized.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 3 May 2024
  • He was born in 1815 and is best known for his messages of liberation.
    — Jacques Kelly, baltimoresun.com, 12 Feb. 2022
  • This is not just the summer of liberation from Covid-19.
    — Stephen Collinson and Rosa Flores, CNN, 6 July 2021
  • To the straight world—and much of the gay world—the leather scene was the unseemly underbelly of gay liberation.
    — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2023
  • In the 1960s, there were groups working on fat liberation.
    — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Feb. 2024
  • Love, cancer, and the liberation that comes with bringing your true self to work.
    — Karen Pavlin, Forbes, 11 July 2022
  • In that sense, the future of work is a liberation movement.
    — Niels Martin Brochner, Forbes, 12 May 2021
  • And that shall be the beginning of the liberation of the country and its citizens.
    — Jud Newborn, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Was the collapse of the Soviet Union a liberation or a tragedy?
    — Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 8 Feb. 2022
  • And the song is indicative of Gilmour’s sense of liberation in making Luck and Strange.
    — Bill Kopp, SPIN, 5 Sep. 2024
  • Meanwhile, the end of a requirement to wear masks outdoors added to the sense of liberation.
    — Star Tribune, 15 May 2021
  • Yet, Lorde’s words emerge from the trenches of liberation work.
    — Akilah Sailers, Essence, 5 Apr. 2025
  • At the liberation center, Nazi swastikas were painted on the doors, walls and signage.
    — Warren Kulo | [email protected], al, 4 Aug. 2023
  • The 45-foot coach is adorned with Afrocentric liberation hues of black, red and green.
    — NBC News, 25 June 2021
  • There’s the slightest tinge of sourness to all of the pretty-in-pink sweetness that Barbie puts forth in the name of one doll’s liberation.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 22 July 2023
  • Even with Black Lives Matter, the goal is Black liberation.
    — Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 28 Aug. 2023
  • The liberation of your soul is the bottom line of what’s at stake, and the evolution of your perspective is about to bear lots of fruit.
    — Steph Koyfman, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Mar. 2024
  • French was not just a liberation from the agonism of what was going on at home.
    — Parul Sehgal, The New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2023
  • The horseback rider waving the black, red and green flag of Black liberation.
    — Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2022
  • The beaches secured, the troops moved inland to begin the long slog of liberation, first of France, then on into Nazi Germany.
    — The Editorial Board, Oc Register, 6 June 2025
  • There are talks about the limitations, and liberations, of having an AI caretaker.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 13 June 2025

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