How to Use liberal arts in a Sentence

liberal arts

plural noun
  • The liberal arts school is in Georgetown, 70 miles east of Louisville.
    Ayana Archie, The Courier-Journal, 2 Nov. 2021
  • The small liberal arts college is now the scene of one of the more contentious standoffs.
    Kate Gibson, CBS News, 14 Apr. 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
  • It’s a small liberal arts school that is about a three-hour drive from metro Detroit.
    Astana Gaffney, Detroit Free Press, 10 Aug. 2020
  • The email went out to students at Knox College, a small liberal arts school in Illinois, on the evening of Dec. 12.
    Kevin Collier, NBC News, 20 Dec. 2022
  • 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
  • In terms of the best liberal arts colleges in the country, Williams College in Williamstown ranked No. 1 this year.
    Emily Sweeney, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Sep. 2023
  • But the numbers don’t mean that the four-year liberal arts degree has made a comeback.
    Irina Ivanova, Fortune, 24 Jan. 2024
  • 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
  • My mother was the maid at Lafayette College, which is a small liberal arts college.
    Rebecca Keegan, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Sep. 2023
  • The number of students majoring in the liberal arts has declined, and the question is why.
    WSJ, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Or even an overwrought op-ed from a student at a small liberal arts college?
    Ian Beacock, The New Republic, 13 July 2022
  • Taylor Wilson: And how about degrees in the liberal arts?
    Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 8 July 2024
  • At the time, Forbes was a 19-year-old sophomore and student leader at the private Baptist liberal arts college in Raleigh.
    Michael Futch, USA TODAY, 2 Feb. 2020
  • One of the most memorable parts of this course is the stretch in front of Wellesley College, a small private liberal arts college that sits at the halfway point of the Boston Marathon.
    New York Times, 18 Apr. 2022
  • Majors was attacked while walking in the park around 7 p.m., two days before the start of final exams at the all-girls liberal arts college.
    Doug Stanglin, USA TODAY, 27 Dec. 2019
  • In April 2015, Emile Weaver gave birth alone in the bathroom of her sorority house at a small liberal arts university in Ohio.
    Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
  • And that is why a liberal arts education is valuable, or can be.
    Jeff Bradford, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2021
  • In some ways Trinity is just sitting, poised to be a leader in combining the liberal arts with the world beyond the campus. ...
    Nancy Schoeffler, courant.com, 21 Nov. 2019
  • Karimi says that the Taliban’s agenda targets the suppression both of women and the liberal arts.
    Patrick Frater, Variety, 15 Aug. 2021
  • Becker College, a small, private liberal arts school in Worcester, will close after the end of this school year, the board of trustees announced Monday.
    BostonGlobe.com, 30 Mar. 2021
  • The private liberal arts college has about 1,700 students and is located in Yonkers, New York.
    Kristina Sgueglia and Eric Levenson, CNN, 11 Feb. 2020
  • The series depicted the muses of the classical liberal arts, with the largest woven work stretching 13 feet tall by 20 feet wide.
    Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Mar. 2022
  • The methodology used to evaluate the liberal arts colleges is the same.
    Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes, 10 Aug. 2022
  • Lewis and Clark College is a private liberal arts college in Portland.
    Stephen Sorace, Fox News, 30 Aug. 2022
  • The nutshell: Six friends at a small liberal arts college in Vermont commit murder.
    Lauren Daley, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Aug. 2022
  • Later to be a Starbucks for rich, white folks with liberal arts degrees from private colleges.
    Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 18 Nov. 2021
  • The private liberal arts college has about 1,700 students and is located in Yonkers.
    Steve Almasy, CNN, 20 Jan. 2023
  • An unidentified Gettysburg College student accused of carving a racial epithet on the chest of a teammate is no longer enrolled at the Pennsylvania liberal arts college, the school said over the weekend.
    Dennis Romero, NBC News, 24 Sep. 2024
  • Harris will speak at Ripon College, a private liberal arts college that enrolls about 800 undergraduates.
    Hope Karnopp, Journal Sentinel, 3 Oct. 2024

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