How to Use liberation in a Sentence

liberation

noun
  • The liberation of the city took weeks.
  • My body is both a site of liberation and protest.
    — Kansas City Star, 30 Aug. 2025
  • Where there was once bondage, there is now liberation.
    — Essence, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Rather a way to claim peace, hope and liberation during a time of chaos.
    — Essence, 21 Sep. 2021
  • Why, in this project of female liberation, must the men still get all the best bits?
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 20 Oct. 2023
  • There was shock on liberation day.
    — CBS News, 28 Dec. 2025
  • Is there a sense of joy, or liberation, to be found in the ruins of a career?
    — Amy Weiss-Meyer, The Atlantic, 21 Jan. 2021
  • There’s liberation in being able to space things out and tell people no.
    — Rita Omokha, Glamour, 1 Feb. 2022
  • The meaning of liberation would have to be worked out, perhaps even fought over.
    — Kornel Chang september 19, Literary Hub, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Love, cancer, and the liberation that comes with bringing your true self to work.
    — Karen Pavlin, Forbes, 11 July 2022
  • Is peptide liberation day near, at long last?
    — Will Stone, NPR, 31 Mar. 2026
  • French was not just a liberation from the agonism of what was going on at home.
    — Parul Sehgal, The New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Yet, Lorde’s words emerge from the trenches of liberation work.
    — Akilah Sailers, Essence, 5 Apr. 2025
  • True liberation should mean more than endurance.
    — Aisha Nyandoro, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026
  • But the course of the war has shifted since the liberation of Irpin.
    — WIRED, 10 July 2023
  • No matter the size of the action, the point is that liberation doesn’t just happen.
    — Literary Hub, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Laughter is one way to sustain hope until the day of liberation.
    — David Frum, The Atlantic, 3 Mar. 2026
  • The mecha play a part in that conquest but also Japan’s liberation.
    — Ollie Barder, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2021
  • He was born in 1815 and is best known for his messages of liberation.
    — Jacques Kelly, baltimoresun.com, 12 Feb. 2022
  • None of them became a symbol of the female liberation that was swirling in the culture at the time.
    — Tim Grierson, Rolling Stone, 11 Oct. 2025
  • But the record is not merely a powerful plea for liberation.
    — Jonathan Bernstein, Rolling Stone, 19 June 2026
  • The element of air is one that allows for freedom, liberation, and a breath of fresh air.
    — Meghan Rose, Glamour, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Repressed in more ways than one, Itto is a woman in need of some kind of liberation.
    — Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Jan. 2023
  • The ability to drive may feel like liberation.
    — Henrietta Moore, Fortune, 16 Sep. 2025
  • In his case, though, the genre bending seems to have been born not so much of liberation as necessity.
    — Literary Hub, 21 Oct. 2025
  • For preachers, that is to preach differently and to teach a gospel of love and liberation.
    — Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 16 Aug. 2023
  • The applause and the tears were part of a mutual liberation from an inanity.
    — The Editors, National Review, 21 Apr. 2022
  • Meanwhile, the end of a requirement to wear masks outdoors added to the sense of liberation.
    — Star Tribune, 15 May 2021
  • Its war-like rhythms and relentless pulse give the work a vigorous sense of liberation.
    — Sheila Regan, Twin Cities, 22 May 2026
  • This quest was not solely for the liberation of William Craft, the Black man.
    — Nuri Kino, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 June 2025

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