How to Use liberal in a Sentence

liberal

1 of 2 adjective

• He made a very liberal donation to the museum.
• Many fishermen keep their holes from freezing over with liberal injections of antifreeze.
  — Time, 28 Feb. 1974
• She is a liberal Democrat who married a conservative Republican.
• Wyden is more aligned with the more liberal wing of the party.
  — Daniel Strauss, The New Republic, 10 Sep. 2021
• Starbucks is one of the most liberal companies in the world.
  — Fox News, 20 Apr. 2018
• There have been some wins for the liberal justices, though.
  — Paige McGlauflin, Fortune, 1 July 2022
• Members were liberal in their use of the A-word to describe the vote.
  — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2022
• The case is the latest in which Hagedorn agreed with the liberal justices.
  — Patrick Marley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9 Apr. 2021
• That part of the city, Binder said, is more liberal than the western half.
  — Heather Knight, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Mar. 2022
• Kennedy sided with the more liberal justices in helping strike down the law.
  — Jeremy Wallace, San Antonio Express-News, 2 July 2018
• To be transgressive in the liberal West is to be alt-right.
  — James Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 21 June 2018
• Conserve the best of the past; be liberal in improving the future.
  — Star Tribune, 29 Apr. 2021
• The sauce is thick, and the staff is stunningly liberal with toppings.
  — Bret Anthony Johnston, Bon Appetit, 6 June 2018
• At the time, believe it or not, he was known as something of a liberal.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 10 Feb. 2020
• So what can a liberal democracy do to turn the populist tide?
  — Malcolm Turnbull, Time, 11 Aug. 2021
• Hunter and Williams have split the support of liberal groups between them.
  — Matt Sledge, NOLA.com, 12 Oct. 2020
• Roberts and the court's four liberal justices were his silent partners.
  — Richard Wolf, USA TODAY, 10 July 2020
• That's beside the point, the court's liberal justices say.
  — John Fritze, USA TODAY, 18 Nov. 2022
• The three justices on the liberal wing of the bench, though, seemed inclined to back Maine in the dispute.
  — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 8 Dec. 2021
• Yet Biden has had trouble with young voters and the liberal base.
  — David M. Drucker, Washington Examiner, 8 Feb. 2020
• Then a cousin in Charlottesville urged him to move to the liberal college town.
  — Ian Shapira, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Sep. 2019
• Critiques have come from the court’s liberal justices as well.
  — Lydia Wheeler, Fortune, 1 Jan. 2023
• For now, planting trees is the one thing that Trump and liberal Democrats agree on.
  — Scott Waldman, Scientific American, 5 Feb. 2020
• Except that a court with five liberal justices likely wouldn’t have taken up the case in the first place.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 1 July 2019
• The third common theme was a version of the second, a complaint that cleveland.com is too liberal.
  — Chris Quinn, Editor, cleveland, 18 Apr. 2020
• While the state has policies that lean culturally liberal, the state is rarely at the forefront of them.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 28 June 2022
• This was a liberal issue—the denial of property rights on racial grounds.
  — Steven Friedman, Quartz Africa, 18 Oct. 2019
• Some of the co-owners are a little more liberal with doggy treats than others.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 18 Feb. 2020
• Liberals tend to rely on a range of liberal and mainstream news sources.
  — Ezra Klein, Vox, 18 Dec. 2018
• Rock and pop musicians tend to be liberal and pro-gun control.
  — Randall Roberts, latimes.com, 4 Oct. 2017

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liberal

2 of 2 noun

• The room was full of liberals and left-of-the-Democrats.
  — Ted Rall, WSJ, 23 May 2018
• But the state’s liberals want it their way or the highway.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 16 June 2019
• Those mail-in ballots helped to carry the race for the liberal.
  — Gloria Dickie, Scientific American, 19 June 2020
• My gosh, in the Bush years there was a liberal in primetime!
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 9 June 2021
• Your gang of liberals team up to squash the third reich in its infancy.
  — William Herkewitz, Popular Mechanics, 28 Sep. 2019
• The report stopped short of what many activists and some liberals might have liked, though.
  — Steven M. Gillon, Time, 1 Mar. 2018
• This is a problem in the eyes of a certain sort of secular liberal.
  — Timothy P. Carney, Washington Examiner, 12 Jan. 2024
• On one side were black and white radicals and liberals.
  — Bill McGraw, Detroit Free Press, 29 July 2017
• Even so, Spain seemed in recent years to be a bright spot for liberals.
  — Jason Horowitz, New York Times, 23 July 2023
• Free speech was a cause no liberal could in good conscience resist.
  — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2021
• Robert Frost said that a liberal is too broad-minded to take his own side in a fight.
  — The Editors, National Review, 4 Apr. 2023
• But in what ways have liberals also played a part in this history?
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2020
• After every mass shooting, the liberals start the blame game.
  — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 6 Aug. 2019
• Casten is more of a centrist while Newman is more of a liberal.
  — Amber Phillips, Washington Post, 28 June 2022
• The extreme liberal left will use this to tragedy to further violate our rights and attempt a gun ban.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 29 May 2022
• The new justice would be an even swap, one liberal for another.
  — Laura Blasey, Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan. 2022
• If the votes of some conservative justices seemed in doubt, the liberals' views were clear.
  — Author: Mark Sherman, Matthew Barakat, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Oct. 2019
• There are reasons liberals could come to like Kavanaugh, but the vote is still likely to be close.
  — Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 10 July 2018
• Mature liberals and moderates know this will come back to bite them.
  — Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 11 July 2019
• This is an argument that will make liberals' heads spin.
  — Aaron Blake, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2017
• Now the good news is there are more conservatives than liberals in Texas.
  — Kevin Diaz, Houston Chronicle, 14 May 2018
• Just over half the solid liberals and slightly less than half the core conservatives feel life will be worse.
  — David Lauter, latimes.com, 24 Oct. 2017
• Justice Stephen Breyer wrote the dissent for the court's liberals, and read parts of it from the bench.
  — Robert Barnes, Anchorage Daily News, 26 June 2018
• Wiener, a liberal by just about any measure, is considered the more moderate of the two.
  — Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2021
• Six of the court’s nine members are conservatives, and the other three are liberals.
  — Jessica Gresko, Chicago Tribune, 2 May 2023
• That served as carte blanche for Patrick to paint Collier as an extreme liberal.
  — Dallas News, 8 Nov. 2022
• And for liberals who are understandably furious about the whole mess, there should be enough blame to go around.
  — Aaron Blake, Washington Post, 29 June 2018
• Pretty much every late-night talk show (host) is a liberal.
  — Paul Bond, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Feb. 2018
• Republicans cast Gideon as a wealthy liberal and a risky choice.
  — chicagotribune.com, 4 Nov. 2020
• And winning over a mix of white liberals and black progressives with populist promises.
  — Greg Bluestein, ajc, 8 Nov. 2017

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024