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
  • 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
  • In the 1960s, there were groups working on fat liberation.
    Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Feb. 2024
  • And that shall be the beginning of the liberation of the country and its citizens.
    Jud Newborn, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Feb. 2023
  • At the liberation center, Nazi swastikas were painted on the doors, walls and signage.
    Warren Kulo | Wkulo@al.com, al, 4 Aug. 2023
  • 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
  • French was not just a liberation from the agonism of what was going on at home.
    Parul Sehgal, The New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2023
  • For preachers, that is to preach differently and to teach a gospel of love and liberation.
    Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Few have done more to advance the cause of leg liberation than Hailey Bieber, who's been skipping pants since 2017 at least.
    Hanna Lustig, Glamour, 4 Mar. 2023
  • By the early 1970s, the gay liberation movement was in full bloom in San Francisco.
    Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 June 2023
  • In the first hour of D-day the first spearhead of Allied forces for the liberation of Europe landed by parachute in northern France.
    Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 June 2023
  • Quant’s miniskirt was the teeny-weeny logo of an era of liberation.
    Brian T. Allen, National Review, 21 Dec. 2023
  • As the men raised their homemade flags and called for liberation, more than 100 other Koreans joined in.
    Michelle Ye Hee Lee, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2023
  • It’s done as a moment of liberation — a call by a woman, for all women — to stop orbiting and find a new path, free from the constraints of old ideas.
    Trish Deitch, Variety, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Starting a government under its name is the next step in the long march of national liberation.
    Raja Khalidi, Foreign Affairs, 19 Mar. 2024
  • So was the myth consolidated that France’s army of liberation was all white.
    Roger Cohen, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Shatz, eager to present a palatable version of his subject, hastens to add that, for Fanon, vengeance was only a step on the liberation ladder.
    Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Hayden is her perfect foil as Fredrik, a man so desperate to renew his youth that he's missed out on the liberation of middle age.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 4 May 2023
  • Bibas family Show more The crowd released orange balloons to evoke the boys’ red hair and as a symbol of the liberation the family of four has been denied for the past 53 days.
    NBC News, 29 Nov. 2023
  • The project includes this lilting story of a post-heartbreak shift aimed at putting the past behind and moving toward liberation.
    Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 16 Jan. 2024
  • Orange balloons were released to honor the boys’ red hair and as a symbol of the liberation the family had been denied.
    Yuliya Talmazan, NBC News, 29 Nov. 2023
  • These are artistic practices and tools of liberation for Black people.
    Marjua Estevez, refinery29.com, 24 Feb. 2023
  • The clothes crumpled on the floor at their feet feel oddly eloquent, legible both as statements of liberation and the shadows of their social selves.
    Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2023
  • This call does not place the burden of liberation at entertainers’ feet.
    Essence, 10 Jan. 2024

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