Statue of Liberty

noun phrase

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

: 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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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 There, Marilyn Miller stood dressed as the Statue of Liberty. — Graham Womack, Sacbee.com, 17 Oct. 2026 Everybody remembers that iconic Statue of Liberty play, in which Boise State quarterback Jared Zabransky handed the ball off behind his back to Johnson for the game-winning score. — Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 3 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for Statue of Liberty

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1887, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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