Statue of Liberty

noun phrase

1

: a large copper statue of a woman holding a torch aloft in her right hand located on Liberty Island in New York harbor

2

: a trick play in football in which the ballcarrier takes the ball from the raised hand of a teammate who is faking a pass

Examples of Statue of Liberty in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The team gathered a short list of about 150 objects, including the desk on which Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence and the four-foot model of the Statue of Liberty sculpted by Frederic Auguste Bartholdi in 1875. —Mike Stunson, USA Today, 3 June 2026

SpaceX built the rocket, which was eventually called Starship and is larger than the Statue of Liberty. —Jack Ewing, New York Times, 2 June 2026

Lokman Vural captured a gorgeous shot of the lunar disk shining behind the Statue of Liberty around moonrise in New York that same night, as a helicopter appeared to buzz Earth's natural satellite. —Anthony Wood, Space.com, 1 June 2026

Six months in the research and development stages, the bracelet underscores the enduring cultural relationship between France and the United States — a connection dating back to the Revolutionary War and later symbolized by France’s 1884 gift of the Statue of Liberty to America. —Roberta Naas, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1887, in the meaning defined at sense 1