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

His bandmates also got in on the New York theme, dressing as city landmarks and icons, including the Statue of Liberty, Andy Warhol and Anna Wintour. — Lexi Carson, HollywoodReporter, 1 Nov. 2026

The filmmakers were determined to capture that same spirit, and did so in a $5 million epic ending that saw Audrey II taking over New York—ending on top of the Statue of Liberty. — Andrew Buss, Vanity Fair, 29 Oct. 2026

Each is as tall as the Statue of Liberty, scattered across a patch of desert roughly the size of Chicago. — Sara Herschander, Vox, 22 Oct. 2026

There were big things in antiquity—the pyramids of Egypt and Mexico; the Colossus of Rhodes, which stood at two thirds the height of the Statue of Liberty until an earthquake snapped it at the knees in 226 BCE—but there weren’t many of them. — Bill McKibben, The New York Review of Books, 17 Oct. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1887, in the meaning defined at sense 1