How to Use liberty in a Sentence

liberty

noun
  • They gave him the liberty to handle the problem himself.
  • There is no ideal of liberty at the end of the tunnel here.
    Tyler Cowen Bloomberg Opinion (tns), Star Tribune, 16 Oct. 2020
  • Like the right to life, and liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
    John Archibald | Jarchibald@al.com, al, 4 June 2020
  • The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
    Molly Beck, Journal Sentinel, 19 Sep. 2022
  • Home to liberty, the pursuit of happiness and the most mass shootings in the world.
    Henrik Pettersson, CNN, 15 Feb. 2018
  • In the land of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, that may trump all.
    Michael Smolens Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Oct. 2021
  • And that’s what this is all about -- with liberty and justice for all.
    Dallas News, 21 June 2020
  • This sparked an idea that scared him, one that could cost him his liberty: making a video game about the war.
    Facundo Iglesi, Wired, 12 Aug. 2021
  • Expand your mind, and take the liberty to follow your heart and your dreams.
    Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 16 Mar. 2024
  • The killer was at liberty for this brutal crime longer than Christy Mirack was on this earth alive.
    Alexia Fernandez, PEOPLE.com, 26 June 2018
  • The Crown's story is based in fact, but takes plenty of liberties, too.
    Chloe Foussianes, Town & Country, 8 Dec. 2019
  • All his dreams of liberty must be relegated to the world to come.
    Fitz Hugh Ludlow, Harper’s Magazine , 17 Aug. 2022
  • In memory of a worldwide hero for the cause of liberty.
    Deroy Murdock, National Review, 22 Dec. 2021
  • The spirit of can-do, the spirit of … life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
    Gregory S. Schneider, Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2023
  • What about the liberty of the woman who doesn't want to carry a pregnancy to term?
    NBC News, 5 Dec. 2021
  • The main liberty we'll be concerned about won't involve a mask.
    Debra Hale-Shelton, Arkansas Online, 9 Aug. 2020
  • And now, the city is working to acquire the land from a private owner, with hopes that the sapling will stand for liberty once more.
    Tiana Woodard, BostonGlobe.com, 8 July 2023
  • Her own claim to such freedom—to move, to go to school, to feel the sun’s heat—connects with past struggles for liberty.
    Tiana Reid, The New York Review of Books, 20 June 2020
  • The law is always ready to catch at anything in favor of liberty.
    Timothy Sandefur, National Review, 12 Sep. 2019
  • That’s not something most teams have the liberty of doing.
    Aaron Heisen, oregonlive, 28 Aug. 2023
  • But the cocktail takes quite a few more creative liberties.
    Emily Heil, Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2023
  • Most cable and fiber plans hike their prices after the first two years, or at least maintain the liberty to do so.
    Sascha Segan, PCMAG, 4 May 2022
  • Life, liberty, and the pursuit of the horizon go even better with music.
    Henry Everingham, SPIN, 27 Feb. 2024
  • The national consensus prefers a loss of liberty over a loss of life.
    Andrew Cohen, CNN, 3 Feb. 2022
  • But the wild, rowdy liberty of this place had to be protected.
    The Economist, 22 Feb. 2018
  • Despite having my liberty crimped, the wings were tasty.
    Jack Hitt, Wired, 13 Aug. 2020
  • The French bring their devotion to liberty into the water with them.
    Catherine Porter, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2023
  • To a boy born and raised in Galicia, France was a paradise of liberty and prosperity, but the idyll was short-lived.
    Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2023
  • White supremacy on one path, liberty and justice for all on the other.
    Ellen McGirt, Fortune, 27 May 2021
  • The people in it are all in pursuit of liberty and democracy.
    Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Oct. 2023

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