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.
• That liberates us, in a way, to have some fun with them.
  — Michael Schneider, Variety, 30 Sep. 2024
• The big guns had helped liberate two villages the day before, Yevhen said.
  — Anastacia Galouchka, Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2022
• Auschwitz was liberated in 1945, but the camp’s site was preserved as a reminder of the tragedy.
  — Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 7 Apr. 2023
• 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
• The three dancers evoke the ties that bind and liberate us, from danger and seduction to love and wisdom.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 6 Sep. 2023
• A few months later, the Allied forces set out on a mission to liberate France.
  — Bebe Hodges, The Enquirer, 18 Aug. 2021
• Still, hearing your story at the right time could liberate your peers.
  — Chicago Tribune, 29 Nov. 2022
• That month, Tsunami had liberated just under a mile of Ukraine, but at the cost of 15 lives and many injuries.
  — Bob Seely, Foreign Affairs, 24 Nov. 2023
• The fans need electricity, of course, but the bulk of the power goes to heating up the carbon to liberate it from the sorbent.
  — Vince Beiser, Wired, 28 Dec. 2021
• Awoken from your slumber by an Angel, you are then set on a quest to free the world from the denizens of evil and liberate us mere mortals in the process.
  — Ollie Barder, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2021
• Anyone outside Ukraine who wants to liberate a pet from the misery of war has to pay about 200 euros and pick it up.
  — Patricia Cohen, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2023
• The Black women of Gen Z are also using their words to liberate.
  — Michaela Angela Davis, Allure, 14 May 2022
• The story of a slave who was kidnapped at 13 and liberated at 25, the year after Leonardo was born.
  — Lianne Kolirin, CNN, 18 Mar. 2023
• There's no special forces team that is going to come liberate you.
  — Chris Kenning, USA TODAY, 26 June 2022
• After the initial push of the 37th, other brigades helped liberate the four villages.
  — Samantha Schmidt and Serhii Korolchuk, Anchorage Daily News, 14 June 2023
• There's something liberating about the truth, that this is what's happening to me right now.
  — Shania Russell, EW.com, 15 June 2023
• His unit helped liberate a village that has been occupied since the very first days of the invasion.
  — Dan Lamothe, Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2022
• More than half fled before the Russians took over; many came back once Bucha was liberated.
  — Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2023
• So far, only five hostages of Hamas have been liberated.
  — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 2 Nov. 2023
• In addition to the rescue of the Lost Battalion, members of the 442nd helped liberate survivors of Dachau's Nazi death camps.
  — Trevor Hughes, USA TODAY, 17 Feb. 2022
• And Coen’s Drive-Away Dolls liberates us from this nonsense.
  — Armond White, National Review, 31 July 2024
• Then, near the 9th, a bit of outside-the-box thinking will liberate you from boring routines and solutions.
  — Katharine Merlin, Town & Country, 1 May 2023
• After gaining their freedom, many served in the Union Army and fought to liberate others who were still enslaved.
  — Hojun Choi, Dallas News, 18 June 2023
• Air assault units in Ukraine’s 10th Corps then moved in, but have been unable to liberate any other villages.
  — Washington Post Staff, Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2023
• Still, the hope has persisted that the very machines that make life repetitive will one day liberate us from the daily grind.
  — Meghan O’Gieblyn, Harper’s Magazine , 4 Jan. 2022
• Joan’s presence motivated the beleaguered French soldiers, and within nine days of her arrival the city was liberated.
  — Tacita Quinn, CNN, 15 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Nov 2024