How to Use liberal in a Sentence

liberal

1 of 2 adjective
  • He made a very liberal donation to the museum.
  • Many fishermen keep their holes from freezing over with liberal injections of antifreeze.
    Time, 28 Feb. 1974
  • She is a liberal Democrat who married a conservative Republican.
  • Wyden is more aligned with the more liberal wing of the party.
    Daniel Strauss, The New Republic, 10 Sep. 2021
  • That part of the city, Binder said, is more liberal than the western half.
    Heather Knight, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Mar. 2022
  • Members were liberal in their use of the A-word to describe the vote.
    Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2022
  • The vote was 6 to 3, with the court’s three liberal members in dissent.
    Adam Liptak, New York Times, 1 July 2021
  • The three justices on the liberal wing of the bench, though, seemed inclined to back Maine in the dispute.
    Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 8 Dec. 2021
  • On the night of the election, the alliance of liberal groups convened at 11 o’clock for a video call.
    New York Times, 24 Jan. 2021
  • For now, planting trees is the one thing that Trump and liberal Democrats agree on.
    Scott Waldman, Scientific American, 5 Feb. 2020
  • To be transgressive in the liberal West is to be alt-right.
    James Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 21 June 2018
  • The case is the latest in which Hagedorn agreed with the liberal justices.
    Patrick Marley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9 Apr. 2021
  • There have been some wins for the liberal justices, though.
    Paige McGlauflin, Fortune, 1 July 2022
  • That's beside the point, the court's liberal justices say.
    John Fritze, USA TODAY, 18 Nov. 2022
  • At the time, believe it or not, he was known as something of a liberal.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 10 Feb. 2020
  • Starbucks is one of the most liberal companies in the world.
    Fox News, 20 Apr. 2018
  • Half of liberal Democrats, in contrast, still think Mr. Biden cares a lot about them.
    Fred Backus, CBS News, 20 Jan. 2022
  • Hunter and Williams have split the support of liberal groups between them.
    Matt Sledge, NOLA.com, 12 Oct. 2020
  • Then a cousin in Charlottesville urged him to move to the liberal college town.
    Ian Shapira, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Sep. 2019
  • Conserve the best of the past; be liberal in improving the future.
    Star Tribune, 29 Apr. 2021
  • The sauce is thick, and the staff is stunningly liberal with toppings.
    Bret Anthony Johnston, Bon Appetit, 6 June 2018
  • Yet Biden has had trouble with young voters and the liberal base.
    David M. Drucker, Washington Examiner, 8 Feb. 2020
  • The three liberal justices were all above water by six to 10 points.
    Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 24 Jan. 2022
  • Roberts and the court's four liberal justices were his silent partners.
    Richard Wolf, USA TODAY, 10 July 2020
  • Kennedy sided with the more liberal justices in helping strike down the law.
    Jeremy Wallace, San Antonio Express-News, 2 July 2018
  • The third common theme was a version of the second, a complaint that cleveland.com is too liberal.
    Chris Quinn, Editor, cleveland, 18 Apr. 2020
  • So what can a liberal democracy do to turn the populist tide?
    Malcolm Turnbull, Time, 11 Aug. 2021
  • Except that a court with five liberal justices likely wouldn’t have taken up the case in the first place.
    Matt Ford, The New Republic, 1 July 2019
  • These days, the bad guy is often a liberal, an opposition figure, or a Muslim.
    Sushmita Pathak, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Apr. 2024
  • Features like adaptive cruise control support that, but liberal use of hard black plastic interior trim says otherwise.
    Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 10 Apr. 2024
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liberal

2 of 2 noun
  • The room was full of liberals and left-of-the-Democrats.
    Ted Rall, WSJ, 23 May 2018
  • But the state’s liberals want it their way or the highway.
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 16 June 2019
  • My gosh, in the Bush years there was a liberal in primetime!
    Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 9 June 2021
  • Those mail-in ballots helped to carry the race for the liberal.
    Gloria Dickie, Scientific American, 19 June 2020
  • Some of the work of the New Dealers and the Japanese liberals was undone.
    Ian Buruma, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
  • Justice Stephen Breyer wrote the dissent for the court's liberals, and read parts of it from the bench.
    Robert Barnes, Anchorage Daily News, 26 June 2018
  • Even so, Spain seemed in recent years to be a bright spot for liberals.
    Jason Horowitz, New York Times, 23 July 2023
  • Robert Frost said that a liberal is too broad-minded to take his own side in a fight.
    The Editors, National Review, 4 Apr. 2023
  • Helms, for his part, was long a bête noire of liberals; Biden bragged of his friendship with Helms and his wife.
    Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 19 June 2019
  • The report stopped short of what many activists and some liberals might have liked, though.
    Steven M. Gillon, Time, 1 Mar. 2018
  • So, a group led by white liberals gets to drive the bus in the Wheeler-Eudaly city council.
    Jessica Floum, OregonLive.com, 15 Oct. 2017
  • Wolf talks to the leader of the human rights movement of the 1980s to find out how Ben Ali won over liberals in the early days of his regime.
    Anne Wolf, Foreign Affairs, 24 Oct. 2023
  • Your gang of liberals team up to squash the third reich in its infancy.
    William Herkewitz, Popular Mechanics, 28 Sep. 2019
  • Bishop didn't fit the GOP's attempts to paint her as some wild-eyed liberal.
    Editorial Board, Star Tribune, 8 July 2021
  • Support for that comes mainly from the left, with just under 1 in 5 of the state’s liberals backing it.
    David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2024
  • But the three liberals criticized the court for going too far.
    Mark Sherman and Lindsay Whitehurst, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Mar. 2024
  • There are reasons liberals could come to like Kavanaugh, but the vote is still likely to be close.
    Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 10 July 2018
  • This is a problem in the eyes of a certain sort of secular liberal.
    Timothy P. Carney, Washington Examiner, 12 Jan. 2024
  • That's a record-high turnout among liberals in Ohio exit polls dating back to 1984.
    Christine Filer, ABC News, 7 Nov. 2023
  • That served as carte blanche for Patrick to paint Collier as an extreme liberal.
    Dallas News, 8 Nov. 2022
  • Casten is more of a centrist while Newman is more of a liberal.
    Amber Phillips, Washington Post, 28 June 2022
  • Sorry liberals, but this makes him a genius, and puts him higher than 99% of you all.
    The Tylt, cleveland.com, 13 Oct. 2017
  • If the votes of some conservative justices seemed in doubt, the liberals' views were clear.
    Author: Mark Sherman, Matthew Barakat, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Oct. 2019
  • After every mass shooting, the liberals start the blame game.
    Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 6 Aug. 2019
  • On one side were black and white radicals and liberals.
    Bill McGraw, Detroit Free Press, 29 July 2017
  • But the best thing Barrett has going for her in Trump’s eyes might be how worried liberals are about her.
    Dara Lind, Vox, 5 July 2018
  • Free speech was a cause no liberal could in good conscience resist.
    Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2021
  • But in what ways have liberals also played a part in this history?
    David Remnick, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2020
  • In which case, free trade is one way that true, classical liberals like Crane seek to bind the world together peacefully.
    John Tamny, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024
  • Rising academic liberals Teixeira also notes that this change has occurred as the party has increasingly become the home of voters who have at least a four-year college degree.
    Ron Elving, NPR, 23 Mar. 2024

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