How to Use emancipate in a Sentence

emancipate

verb

• He felt the only way to emancipate himself from his parents was to move away.
• 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
• Many whites, even those who wanted to emancipate slaves, didn’t want them around.
  — Jeff Suess, Cincinnati.com, 11 May 2017
• What role did churches play in the lives of the newly emancipated?
  — Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 25 Feb. 2024
• By this point, the northern states had emancipated all their slaves.
  — John Steele Gordon, WSJ, 28 June 2019
• 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
• And the goal of white feminism itself is to simply emancipate white women from white men.
  — Clarkisha Kent, The Root, 18 Jan. 2018
• 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
• Following the Civil War, emancipated slaves yearned for land of their own.
  — Sandra Dallas, The Denver Post, 2 Apr. 2024
• In 2020, the computer and the internet are fully emancipated from the basement.
  — Clay Chandler, Fortune, 14 Apr. 2020
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Major, the Maryland Club will now house emancipated Negro refugees.
  — Anna Deavere Smith, The Atlantic, 13 Nov. 2023
• To be antiracist is to emancipate oneself from the dueling consciousness.
  — David Montgomery, Washington Post, 14 Oct. 2019
• 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
• While living in Los Angeles, Bigler received a church's mass email about a teenager who had a emancipated herself from the foster care system.
  — Karen Baker, NOLA.com, 23 Aug. 2017
• Bynes sought to legally emancipate herself from her parents, then withdrew the petition.
  — Mia McNiece, Peoplemag, 26 Sep. 2022
• Juneteenth commemorates the day all enslaved people in the United States learned that they were emancipated.
  — Maggie Horton, Country Living, 19 June 2023
• Not even a roller coaster can emancipate Mimi from her signature diva essence.
  — EW.com, 3 May 2024
• There was hardly a mighty current of sentiment abroad in the land to emancipate the enslaved and extend citizenship to the newly freed in a Promised Land of racial and civil equality.
  — Jon Meacham, Time, 12 Oct. 2022
• Ed refused to spoon Bob, and his gentle and emancipated soul would surely rebuff mawkish kindness.
  — Daniel Felsenthal, The New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2024
• 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
• The opening sequence of Birds of Prey has officially been emancipated.
  — Mary Sollosi, EW.com, 6 Dec. 2019
• The book is propped wide open, and engraved on its surface are the names of more than a hundred and twenty thousand Black people, documented in the 1870 census, who were emancipated after the Civil War.
  — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
• Over the course of a week-long session at the camp, Whistler butts heads with Jordan (played by Germaine), a trans and nonbinary teen who made a deal with their parents to legally emancipate themself after attending the camp.
  — Wilson Chapman, Variety, 22 June 2022
• Nanny, Jamaica’s national hero and the great leader of the self-emancipating Maroons, was also a known practitioner of Obeah.
  — Text By Nicole Dennis-Benn, New York Times, 23 Mar. 2023
• Ukrainians see their existence in time and space as resting on this vision of a sovereign history, emancipated from Russia.
  — Georgiy Kasianov, Foreign Affairs, 4 May 2022
• Photography was invented in 1839, one year after Douglass emancipated himself from slavery.
  — TIME, 6 May 2024

Last Updated: 24 Sep 2024