How to Use emancipate in a Sentence

emancipate

verb
  • He felt the only way to emancipate himself from his parents was to move away.
  • Many whites, even those who wanted to emancipate slaves, didn’t want them around.
    — Jeff Suess, Cincinnati.com, 11 May 2017
  • By this point, the northern states had emancipated all their slaves.
    — John Steele Gordon, WSJ, 28 June 2019
  • What role did churches play in the lives of the newly emancipated?
    — Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 25 Feb. 2024
  • Colorado law ties teens to their parents unless they can get emancipated by the court.
    — Fraidy Reiss, Denver Post, 15 Mar. 2026
  • And the goal of white feminism itself is to simply emancipate white women from white men.
    — Clarkisha Kent, The Root, 18 Jan. 2018
  • This is well over a dozen years before Black people are declared emancipated.
    — Literary Hub, 25 Sep. 2025
  • The song’s renown gave Howe fame and the power to emancipate herself from Chev’s control.
    — Elaine Showalter, The New York Review of Books, 27 May 2019
  • At the age of 14, Culkin emancipated himself from his parents.
    — Janelle Ash, Fox News, 14 Mar. 2025
  • Not even a roller coaster can emancipate Mimi from her signature diva essence.
    — EW.com, 3 May 2024
  • Bynes sought to legally emancipate herself from her parents, then withdrew the petition.
    — Mia McNiece, Peoplemag, 26 Sep. 2022
  • The mother-daughter duo went their separate ways when Drew was emancipated at the age of 14.
    — Nicole Briese, People.com, 22 Feb. 2025
  • To be antiracist is to emancipate oneself from the dueling consciousness.
    — David Montgomery, Washington Post, 14 Oct. 2019
  • In parts of the South, violence broke out as former rebels returned to plots that had since been occupied by the emancipated.
    — Essence, 18 June 2024
  • Games, in this mix, are reimagined as interfaces emancipated from utility—an art for art’s sake of the appliance.
    — Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 30 June 2023
  • Ed refused to spoon Bob, and his gentle and emancipated soul would surely rebuff mawkish kindness.
    — Daniel Felsenthal, The New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2024
  • Even those who emancipated the theory from complex numbers admit that the latter are a natural fit.
    — Daniel Garisto, Quanta Magazine, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Nev, who’s now 17 and emancipated, returns to Avan Island.
    — Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 21 Sep. 2025
  • When Winter was 14 years old, she was placed in the care of her older sister and three years later, she was legally emancipated.
    — Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 15 May 2026
  • Major, the Maryland Club will now house emancipated Negro refugees.
    — Anna Deavere Smith, The Atlantic, 13 Nov. 2023
  • The 8-year-old Barrymore stands out as the most mature lead in the film (and she was emancipated from her parents in real life six years later).
    — Gwen Ihnat, EW.com, 7 Nov. 2023
  • Moceanu went through a dramatic trial just two years after the Olympics to emancipate herself from her father at the age of 17.
    — Emily Adams, USA TODAY, 22 July 2021
  • In this case, the advances in computer science pioneered at Google serve to emancipate the world from Google’s silos.
    — Andy Kessler, WSJ, 15 July 2018
  • The French and British continued to war over the land for years before the slaves were emancipated in 1834.
    — Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 15 July 2024
  • In demanding the right to abort babies who are three months from being born, the people of Ireland were not just looking to emancipate the vaginas of their women.
    — Christine M. Flowers, Philly.com, 28 May 2018
  • Once the Southern Crescent pulled into the station, all trains bound north were emancipated from Jim Crow laws.
    — Literary Hub, 11 May 2026
  • The opening sequence of Birds of Prey has officially been emancipated.
    — Mary Sollosi, EW.com, 6 Dec. 2019
  • Bitcoin, devised as a tool to emancipate the masses from corporate and state power, now depends on the imprimatur of the institutions it is meant to take down.
    — Daniel Tenreiro, National Review, 15 Apr. 2021
  • As the season unfolds, Edwina finds a way to emancipate herself from her older sister's opinions, just as Kate will learn to want things for herself.
    — Sheena Scott, Forbes, 25 Mar. 2022
  • At 16, Christa met 17-year-old Tina Katusky, who said Christa was emancipated by the state that year.
    — Laura Crimaldi, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Jan. 2018

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