How to Use liberal arts in a Sentence

liberal arts

plural noun
  • This edge isn’t gained at the expense of the liberal arts.
    — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 7 Oct. 2025
  • This is what happens when a liberal arts teacher gets fired.
    — Swan Huntley, Los Angeles Times, 25 May 2026
  • In year 20, the liberal arts people have knocked them off the rails.
    — Recode Staff, Recode, 7 July 2018
  • Or even an overwrought op-ed from a student at a small liberal arts college?
    — Ian Beacock, The New Republic, 13 July 2022
  • Amherst will be the first liberal arts college in the country with its own major in the field.
    — Pawan Dhingra, The Conversation, 21 May 2024
  • The small liberal arts college is now the scene of one of the more contentious standoffs.
    — Kate Gibson, CBS News, 14 Apr. 2022
  • But the numbers don’t mean that the four-year liberal arts degree has made a comeback.
    — Irina Ivanova, Fortune, 24 Jan. 2024
  • The liberal arts finished last.
    — Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 25 June 2026
  • And that is why a liberal arts education is valuable, or can be.
    — Jeff Bradford, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2021
  • The liberal arts school is in Georgetown, 70 miles east of Louisville.
    — Ayana Archie, The Courier-Journal, 2 Nov. 2021
  • To be clear, the problem isn’t that what takes place in a liberal arts education doesn’t work for the modern world.
    — Jamie Merisotis, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026
  • Florida does not have any liberal arts colleges ranked in the top 100.
    — Miami Herald, 27 Sep. 2025
  • My mother was the maid at Lafayette College, which is a small liberal arts college.
    — Rebecca Keegan, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Sep. 2023
  • The pilot flew the couple's son to his liberal arts college in his private plane for the start of the fall semester.
    — Adam England, Peoplemag, 27 Jan. 2023
  • The number of students majoring in the liberal arts has declined, and the question is why.
    — WSJ, 21 Mar. 2023
  • And as sticker prices tick up, enrollment at many private liberal arts colleges is on the sharp decline.
    — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Later to be a Starbucks for rich, white folks with liberal arts degrees from private colleges.
    — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 18 Nov. 2021
  • At the same time, there is some evidence that the liberal arts degree is becoming more relevant, at least in tech.
    — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 14 Apr. 2026
  • The popular rankings break down by best national colleges, liberal arts schools and more.
    — Rachel Wegner, Nashville Tennessean, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Decades of four-year liberal arts grads can't turn a screwdriver to hook up the transformers to the electrical system.
    — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 28 June 2026
  • That's left some parents and students questioning the value of a degree from a liberal arts college.
    — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 14 Jan. 2020
  • Our school teaches the liberal arts, so that students have a fighting chance of keeping their balance in our topsy-turvy culture.
    — Rachel Lu, National Review, 17 Mar. 2022
  • The methodology used to evaluate the liberal arts colleges is the same.
    — Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes, 10 Aug. 2022
  • Sarah Lawrence College, a liberal arts college on the border of Bronxville.
    — Matt Yan, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2025
  • The first step is to avoid the tired trap of pitting a liberal arts education against a technical or practical one.
    — Jamie Merisotis, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026
  • The liberal arts college shifted to all-remote learning and closed the campus to visitors.
    — Arkansas Online, 27 Nov. 2020
  • Imagine graduating with a liberal arts degree as the age of AI dawns.
    — Steven Levy, Wired News, 16 May 2025
  • Chula Vista should not build a generic liberal arts campus and hope enrollment follows.
    — Christos Korgan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 May 2026
  • Solomon serves as the chair of the board of trustees at Hamilton, a liberal arts college with about 2,000 students.
    — Sridhar Natarajan, Fortune, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Questions over the value of liberal arts degrees pose a real threat to colleges and universities.
    — Jamie Merisotis, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026

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