How to Use emancipate in a Sentence

emancipate

verb

• He felt the only way to emancipate himself from his parents was to move away.
• The song’s renown gave Howe fame and the power to emancipate herself from Chev’s control.
  — Elaine Showalter, The New York Review of Books, 27 May 2019
• Many whites, even those who wanted to emancipate slaves, didn’t want them around.
  — Jeff Suess, Cincinnati.com, 11 May 2017
• By this point, the northern states had emancipated all their slaves.
  — John Steele Gordon, WSJ, 28 June 2019
• At 16, Christa met 17-year-old Tina Katusky, who said Christa was emancipated by the state that year.
  — Laura Crimaldi, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Jan. 2018
• And the goal of white feminism itself is to simply emancipate white women from white men.
  — Clarkisha Kent, The Root, 18 Jan. 2018
• The 8-year-old Barrymore stands out as the most mature lead in the film (and she was emancipated from her parents in real life six years later).
  — Gwen Ihnat, EW.com, 7 Nov. 2023
• Moceanu went through a dramatic trial just two years after the Olympics to emancipate herself from her father at the age of 17.
  — Emily Adams, USA TODAY, 22 July 2021
• In 2020, the computer and the internet are fully emancipated from the basement.
  — Clay Chandler, Fortune, 14 Apr. 2020
• In demanding the right to abort babies who are three months from being born, the people of Ireland were not just looking to emancipate the vaginas of their women.
  — Christine M. Flowers, Philly.com, 28 May 2018
• In this case, the advances in computer science pioneered at Google serve to emancipate the world from Google’s silos.
  — Andy Kessler, WSJ, 15 July 2018
• As the season unfolds, Edwina finds a way to emancipate herself from her older sister's opinions, just as Kate will learn to want things for herself.
  — Sheena Scott, Forbes, 25 Mar. 2022
• Major, the Maryland Club will now house emancipated Negro refugees.
  — Anna Deavere Smith, The Atlantic, 13 Nov. 2023
• To be antiracist is to emancipate oneself from the dueling consciousness.
  — David Montgomery, Washington Post, 14 Oct. 2019
• Games, in this mix, are reimagined as interfaces emancipated from utility—an art for art’s sake of the appliance.
  — Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 30 June 2023
• While living in Los Angeles, Bigler received a church's mass email about a teenager who had a emancipated herself from the foster care system.
  — Karen Baker, NOLA.com, 23 Aug. 2017
• Bynes sought to legally emancipate herself from her parents, then withdrew the petition.
  — Mia McNiece, Peoplemag, 26 Sep. 2022
• Juneteenth commemorates the day all enslaved people in the United States learned that they were emancipated.
  — Maggie Horton, Country Living, 19 June 2023
• There was hardly a mighty current of sentiment abroad in the land to emancipate the enslaved and extend citizenship to the newly freed in a Promised Land of racial and civil equality.
  — Jon Meacham, Time, 12 Oct. 2022
• Ed refused to spoon Bob, and his gentle and emancipated soul would surely rebuff mawkish kindness.
  — Daniel Felsenthal, The New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2024
• Bitcoin, devised as a tool to emancipate the masses from corporate and state power, now depends on the imprimatur of the institutions it is meant to take down.
  — Daniel Tenreiro, National Review, 15 Apr. 2021
• The opening sequence of Birds of Prey has officially been emancipated.
  — Mary Sollosi, EW.com, 6 Dec. 2019
• Over the course of a week-long session at the camp, Whistler butts heads with Jordan (played by Germaine), a trans and nonbinary teen who made a deal with their parents to legally emancipate themself after attending the camp.
  — Wilson Chapman, Variety, 22 June 2022
• Nanny, Jamaica’s national hero and the great leader of the self-emancipating Maroons, was also a known practitioner of Obeah.
  — Text By Nicole Dennis-Benn, New York Times, 23 Mar. 2023
• Millions of Black Americans won their freedom over the course of the next several years after the proclamation, often by crossing Union lines to emancipate themselves.
  — Washington Post, 19 June 2021
• These land cessions were cemented in the Treaties of 1866, in which the five slaveholding nations also agreed to emancipate their slaves, give them all the rights of tribal citizens and provide them with land allotments.
  — Alaina E. Roberts, Time, 14 Apr. 2021
• This ghost of slavery that has been invoked has the effect of intimidating those who, from convictions of duty, are seeking to emancipate the enslaved race in this state.
  — Anna Deavere Smith, The Atlantic, 13 Nov. 2023
• And for two weeks in January 1832, the Virginia legislature toyed with the idea of abolishing slavery and emancipating people of African descent.
  — Gregory S. Schneider, Washington Post, 14 June 2019
• Lincoln’s decision to emancipate the slaves came after a long, arduous struggle with the South’s slaveholding elite and his own evolving beliefs.
  — Mary Ann Gwinn / Lit Life Columnist, The Seattle Times, 20 July 2017
• If money just gushes out of the ground in the form of hydrocarbons or diamonds or other minerals, the oppressors can emancipate themselves from the oppressed.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2022

Last Updated: 9 May 2024