How to Use liberation in a Sentence
liberation
noun- The liberation of the city took weeks.
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But the course of the war has shifted since the liberation of Irpin.
— WIRED, 10 July 2023 -
Why, in this project of female liberation, must the men still get all the best bits?
— Sara Holdren, Vulture, 20 Oct. 2023 -
With the liberation of the Netherlands, Bloch was free.
— Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Jan. 2024 -
The 47th claimed the liberation of Robotyne on Aug. 28.
— Washington Post Staff, Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2023 -
Lenin fell off it, hurled to the ground by the townsfolk of Lanchkhuti in the first joyful paroxysm of their liberation.
— Christopher Helman, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023 -
Smith was in prison for the Battle of Stalingrad, and the liberation of Auschwitz.
— Annalisa Quinn, BostonGlobe.com, 5 July 2023 -
The liberation of Snake Island was the key to opening up the inland ports.
— David Axe, Forbes, 15 July 2022 -
That’s a strange kind of liberation: Areas that were once open to all are now closed — seized.
— Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 3 May 2024 -
To the straight world—and much of the gay world—the leather scene was the unseemly underbelly of gay liberation.
— Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2023 -
In the 1960s, there were groups working on fat liberation.
— Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Feb. 2024 -
Love, cancer, and the liberation that comes with bringing your true self to work.
— Karen Pavlin, Forbes, 11 July 2022 -
And that shall be the beginning of the liberation of the country and its citizens.
— Jud Newborn, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Feb. 2023 -
And the song is indicative of Gilmour’s sense of liberation in making Luck and Strange.
— Bill Kopp, SPIN, 5 Sep. 2024 -
At the liberation center, Nazi swastikas were painted on the doors, walls and signage.
— Warren Kulo | Wkulo@al.com, al, 4 Aug. 2023 -
There’s the slightest tinge of sourness to all of the pretty-in-pink sweetness that Barbie puts forth in the name of one doll’s liberation.
— David Fear, Rolling Stone, 22 July 2023 -
Even with Black Lives Matter, the goal is Black liberation.
— Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 28 Aug. 2023 -
The liberation of your soul is the bottom line of what’s at stake, and the evolution of your perspective is about to bear lots of fruit.
— Steph Koyfman, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Mar. 2024 -
French was not just a liberation from the agonism of what was going on at home.
— Parul Sehgal, The New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2023 -
The horseback rider waving the black, red and green flag of Black liberation.
— Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2022 -
For preachers, that is to preach differently and to teach a gospel of love and liberation.
— Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 16 Aug. 2023 -
Friday marks 78 years since the liberation of Auschwitz.
— Jericka Duncan, CBS News, 27 Jan. 2023 -
The applause and the tears were part of a mutual liberation from an inanity.
— The Editors, National Review, 21 Apr. 2022 -
Few have done more to advance the cause of leg liberation than Hailey Bieber, who's been skipping pants since 2017 at least.
— Hanna Lustig, Glamour, 4 Mar. 2023 -
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 element of air is one that allows for freedom, liberation, and a breath of fresh air.
— Meghan Rose, Glamour, 29 Dec. 2022 -
And the other similar thing is probably the theme of liberation in the end.
— Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 8 Sep. 2024 -
By the early 1970s, the gay liberation movement was in full bloom in San Francisco.
— Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 June 2023 -
Sunday was a glimpse of what his version of liberation means.
— Michelle Goldberg, The Mercury News, 30 Oct. 2024 -
Oz is the Penguin now — like everyone in Batman’s Rogues Gallery, a caricature of his own trauma, drawn to criminal means of false liberation.
— Andy Andersen, Vulture, 10 Nov. 2024
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