How to Use liberation in a Sentence

liberation

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  • The liberation of the city took weeks.
  • 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 | [email protected], 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
  • 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
  • In the first hour of D-day the first spearhead of Allied forces for the liberation of Europe landed by parachute in northern France.
    — Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 June 2023
  • In the 1980s, as Reagan reigned and the liberation movements of the previous two decades waned, respectable society lost its collective mind.
    — Judy Berman, TIME, 30 Oct. 2024
  • After a few weeks of panic, the Kremlin appears to be getting its propaganda strategy back in order—telling Russians to be calm and not await any speedy liberation of the Kursk region.
    — Peter Pomerantsev, Foreign Affairs, 11 Oct. 2024

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