How to Use liberate in a Sentence

liberate

verb
  • Rebels fought to liberate the country.
  • Soldiers liberated the hostages from their captors.
  • He was using materials that he had liberated from a construction site.
  • Laptop computers could liberate workers from their desks.
  • Get them, and liberate your ears with epic sound.
    — Juhi Wadia, PC Magazine, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Get them, and liberate your ears with epic sound.
    — Juhi Wadia, PC Magazine, 28 Mar. 2026
  • Get them, and liberate your ears with epic sound.
    — Juhi Wadia, PC Magazine, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Get them, and liberate your ears with epic sound.
    — Juhi Wadia, PC Magazine, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Evol sees it as a place where Black artists can create and liberate.
    — Jenna Ross, Star Tribune, 25 Feb. 2021
  • Love can lift up and liberate for living when nothing else will.
    — Amanda Arnold, The Cut, 19 May 2018
  • Stormy seas can liberate that carbon from the ocean into the air.
    — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Nov. 2020
  • There's power in love to lift up and liberate when nothing else will.
    — Fox News, 25 May 2018
  • There’s power in love to lift up and liberate when nothing else will.
    — Sarah Pulliam Bailey, Washington Post, 19 May 2018
  • The form seems to liberate her from concerns about divulging too much.
    — Emily Bobrow, WSJ, 1 Feb. 2019
  • There's no special forces team that is going to come liberate you.
    — Chris Kenning, USA TODAY, 26 June 2022
  • That the trade won’t liberate me from anything, but will only trap me more.
    — Dani Fleischer, Longreads, 22 Nov. 2019
  • There's power in love, to lift up and liberate when nothing else will.
    — Lyndsey Matthews, Harper's BAZAAR, 19 May 2018
  • At their best, wars can throw off the worst tyrannies and liberate the oppressed.
    — Connor Okeeffe, Oc Register, 29 Mar. 2026
  • Still, hearing your story at the right time could liberate your peers.
    — Chicago Tribune, 29 Nov. 2022
  • The good ones will be liberated.
    — Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 14 May 2026
  • There is a lot of charlatanism that is just designed to liberate you from your cash.
    — Clay Skipper, GQ, 3 May 2018
  • But is liberating to be able to laugh about such terrible things on screen.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 19 Mar. 2026
  • King repurposed the works of a dead white male to lift up and liberate his people—and all of us.
    — Angel Adams Parham, WSJ, 20 May 2022
  • That was the theater of ecstasy that would liberate him from the body.
    — Mark Schilling, Variety, 29 Oct. 2025
  • All writers must forge their own language and liberate themselves in this way.
    — Literary Hub, 14 Apr. 2026
  • The big guns had helped liberate two villages the day before, Yevhen said.
    — Anastacia Galouchka, Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2022
  • Then the fight to liberate parents from the market begins again.
    — Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 10 Mar. 2021
  • The abundance that should liberate us ends up limiting us.
    — Neeraj Gulati, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025
  • That was really liberating at the time for women and looked scary to men.
    — A Martínez, NPR, 7 Mar. 2025
  • Woods is on the cusp of liberating himself from years of injuries, yips and tabloid infamy.
    — David Whitley, OrlandoSentinel.com, 3 Apr. 2018

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