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
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The Statue of Liberty stands in our harbor, not as a decoration, but as a declaration of our values and the promise of America.
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Deputy News Editor, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
The novel opens as the teenage Karl Rossmann, whose parents shipped him off to America for fathering a child when he was seduced by the family’s thirty-five-year-old cook, arrives on a steamer in New York harbor and sees the Statue of Liberty holding not the emblematic torch but rather a sword.
—Literary Hub, 6 Oct. 2025
The Statue of Liberty, for example, will remain open.
—Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 3 Oct. 2025
The decision followed a dispute with curators over how to display a painting that reimagined the Statue of Liberty as a Black, trans woman.
—Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Money, 28 Sep. 2025
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Deputy News Editor, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
The novel opens as the teenage Karl Rossmann, whose parents shipped him off to America for fathering a child when he was seduced by the family’s thirty-five-year-old cook, arrives on a steamer in New York harbor and sees the Statue of Liberty holding not the emblematic torch but rather a sword.
—Literary Hub, 6 Oct. 2025
The Statue of Liberty, for example, will remain open.
—Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 3 Oct. 2025
The decision followed a dispute with curators over how to display a painting that reimagined the Statue of Liberty as a Black, trans woman.
—Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Money, 28 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for Statue of Liberty
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“Statue of Liberty.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Statue%20of%20Liberty. Accessed 4 Nov. 2025.
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