How to Use emancipation in a Sentence

emancipation

noun
  • Even worse, they were kept ignorant of their emancipation for over two and a half years.
    — Marcia L. Fudge, Fortune, 19 June 2020
  • Many reflect on the changes, or lack thereof, brought on by emancipation.
    — Eva Rothenberg, CNN, 28 Mar. 2021
  • The show traces a path from subjugation to emancipation by the last room.
    — New York Times, 13 July 2021
  • To oppose her is to oppose progress and the emancipation of women.
    — Varad Mehta, National Review, 22 July 2017
  • Yet emancipation came with a bargain.
    — Kenneth L. Marcus, Boston Herald, 13 Apr. 2026
  • These acts of bravery helped pave the way for emancipation in the 1800s.
    — Melissa Noel, Essence, 1 Aug. 2023
  • The film also explores the role property can play in a young man’s emancipation.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 24 May 2023
  • He is still revered as one of the first martyrs for Mexican emancipation.
    — Rodrigo Cervantes, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2023
  • This message of emancipation spread throughout the state of Texas and to the rest of the South.
    — Michiel Perry Of Black Southern Belle, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 June 2020
  • The film also explores the role property can play in a young man’s emancipation.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 12 Nov. 2025
  • Soul City makes a case for the importance of space to the project of Black emancipation—space to dream, space to grow.
    — Divya Subramanian, The New Republic, 17 Mar. 2021
  • His father-in-law made provision in his will for the emancipation of the Custis slaves within five years.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2021
  • So as the baby gains skills of emancipation, would Alma be equally threatened by that?
    — Anna Silman, The Cut, 26 Jan. 2018
  • Suffrage figures in Jones’s account as just one episode in a much longer story of emancipation.
    — Deborah Cohen, The Atlantic, 20 Dec. 2020
  • Thomas notes that the girl was in the possession of George Galphin at the time of her emancipation.
    — The Root, 6 Oct. 2017
  • The date marks the emancipation of people who had been enslaved in the United States.
    — Scott Bauer, Star Tribune, 16 Feb. 2021
  • There was, however, a hiccup on this passage to the blockchain’s emancipation of the world spirit.
    — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, WIRED, 18 June 2018
  • The trials of Black families did not end with emancipation.
    — Erin Douglass, Christian Science Monitor, 26 Nov. 2025
  • Barrymore had won emancipation from her parents at the time, and stayed with the rocker and his family for two months.
    — Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 21 Jan. 2023
  • Love, passion and a longing for emancipation fill their biosynthetic hearts.
    — Liza Lentini, SPIN, 26 June 2026
  • More than a century later, even after emancipation, that idea still shaped how my ancestors were laid to rest.
    — Jeffrey Bennett, Time, 5 Jan. 2026
  • That was the year of the emancipation of Russia’s serfs; Kropotkin’s father had owned serfs in three provinces.
    — Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 4 Feb. 2025
  • Believe me, this concept of child emancipation… I was intrigued.
    — Literary Hub, 18 Dec. 2025
  • The vote was merely one arrow in her quiver to bring about full emancipation for African Americans.
    — Marjoleine Kars, Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2020
  • His plan called for a gradual emancipation; the first slaves wouldn’t go free until 1858.
    — Gregory S. Schneider, Washington Post, 14 June 2019
  • The cemetery has been used by African-Americans since the emancipation.
    — Jessica Bliss, USA TODAY, 30 Aug. 2017
  • During the Civil War, guns left a bloody trail that led finally to emancipation.
    — Literary Hub, 17 Sep. 2025
  • In many ways, this was going to be Virginia Giuffre’s emancipation.
    — Laura Trujillo, USA Today, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Jordan Chandler went on to attain legal emancipation from both of his parents.
    — Amelia McDonell-Parry, Rolling Stone, 22 Apr. 2026
  • After the war, Lee publicly conceded the loss and acknowledged that emancipation was the rule of law.
    — Stuart Miller, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2021

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