How to Use liberal in a Sentence

liberal

1 of 2 adjective

• He made a very liberal donation to the museum.
• Many fishermen keep their holes from freezing over with liberal injections of antifreeze.
  — Time, 28 Feb. 1974
• She is a liberal Democrat who married a conservative Republican.
• Wyden is more aligned with the more liberal wing of the party.
  — Daniel Strauss, The New Republic, 10 Sep. 2021
• That part of the city, Binder said, is more liberal than the western half.
  — Heather Knight, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Mar. 2022
• Members were liberal in their use of the A-word to describe the vote.
  — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2022
• The vote was 6 to 3, with the court’s three liberal members in dissent.
  — Adam Liptak, New York Times, 1 July 2021
• The three justices on the liberal wing of the bench, though, seemed inclined to back Maine in the dispute.
  — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 8 Dec. 2021
• On the night of the election, the alliance of liberal groups convened at 11 o’clock for a video call.
  — New York Times, 24 Jan. 2021
• For now, planting trees is the one thing that Trump and liberal Democrats agree on.
  — Scott Waldman, Scientific American, 5 Feb. 2020
• To be transgressive in the liberal West is to be alt-right.
  — James Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 21 June 2018
• The case is the latest in which Hagedorn agreed with the liberal justices.
  — Patrick Marley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9 Apr. 2021
• There have been some wins for the liberal justices, though.
  — Paige McGlauflin, Fortune, 1 July 2022
• That's beside the point, the court's liberal justices say.
  — John Fritze, USA TODAY, 18 Nov. 2022
• At the time, believe it or not, he was known as something of a liberal.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 10 Feb. 2020
• Starbucks is one of the most liberal companies in the world.
  — Fox News, 20 Apr. 2018
• Half of liberal Democrats, in contrast, still think Mr. Biden cares a lot about them.
  — Fred Backus, CBS News, 20 Jan. 2022
• Hunter and Williams have split the support of liberal groups between them.
  — Matt Sledge, NOLA.com, 12 Oct. 2020
• Then a cousin in Charlottesville urged him to move to the liberal college town.
  — Ian Shapira, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Sep. 2019
• Conserve the best of the past; be liberal in improving the future.
  — Star Tribune, 29 Apr. 2021
• The sauce is thick, and the staff is stunningly liberal with toppings.
  — Bret Anthony Johnston, Bon Appetit, 6 June 2018
• Yet Biden has had trouble with young voters and the liberal base.
  — David M. Drucker, Washington Examiner, 8 Feb. 2020
• The three liberal justices were all above water by six to 10 points.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 24 Jan. 2022
• Roberts and the court's four liberal justices were his silent partners.
  — Richard Wolf, USA TODAY, 10 July 2020
• Kennedy sided with the more liberal justices in helping strike down the law.
  — Jeremy Wallace, San Antonio Express-News, 2 July 2018
• The third common theme was a version of the second, a complaint that cleveland.com is too liberal.
  — Chris Quinn, Editor, cleveland, 18 Apr. 2020
• So what can a liberal democracy do to turn the populist tide?
  — Malcolm Turnbull, Time, 11 Aug. 2021
• Except that a court with five liberal justices likely wouldn’t have taken up the case in the first place.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 1 July 2019
• These days, the bad guy is often a liberal, an opposition figure, or a Muslim.
  — Sushmita Pathak, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Apr. 2024
• Features like adaptive cruise control support that, but liberal use of hard black plastic interior trim says otherwise.
  — Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 10 Apr. 2024

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liberal

2 of 2 noun

• The room was full of liberals and left-of-the-Democrats.
  — Ted Rall, WSJ, 23 May 2018
• But the state’s liberals want it their way or the highway.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 16 June 2019
• My gosh, in the Bush years there was a liberal in primetime!
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 9 June 2021
• Those mail-in ballots helped to carry the race for the liberal.
  — Gloria Dickie, Scientific American, 19 June 2020
• Some of the work of the New Dealers and the Japanese liberals was undone.
  — Ian Buruma, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
• Justice Stephen Breyer wrote the dissent for the court's liberals, and read parts of it from the bench.
  — Robert Barnes, Anchorage Daily News, 26 June 2018
• Even so, Spain seemed in recent years to be a bright spot for liberals.
  — Jason Horowitz, New York Times, 23 July 2023
• Robert Frost said that a liberal is too broad-minded to take his own side in a fight.
  — The Editors, National Review, 4 Apr. 2023
• Helms, for his part, was long a bête noire of liberals; Biden bragged of his friendship with Helms and his wife.
  — Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 19 June 2019
• The report stopped short of what many activists and some liberals might have liked, though.
  — Steven M. Gillon, Time, 1 Mar. 2018
• So, a group led by white liberals gets to drive the bus in the Wheeler-Eudaly city council.
  — Jessica Floum, OregonLive.com, 15 Oct. 2017
• Wolf talks to the leader of the human rights movement of the 1980s to find out how Ben Ali won over liberals in the early days of his regime.
  — Anne Wolf, Foreign Affairs, 24 Oct. 2023
• Your gang of liberals team up to squash the third reich in its infancy.
  — William Herkewitz, Popular Mechanics, 28 Sep. 2019
• Bishop didn't fit the GOP's attempts to paint her as some wild-eyed liberal.
  — Editorial Board, Star Tribune, 8 July 2021
• Support for that comes mainly from the left, with just under 1 in 5 of the state’s liberals backing it.
  — David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2024
• But the three liberals criticized the court for going too far.
  — Mark Sherman and Lindsay Whitehurst, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Mar. 2024
• There are reasons liberals could come to like Kavanaugh, but the vote is still likely to be close.
  — Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 10 July 2018
• This is a problem in the eyes of a certain sort of secular liberal.
  — Timothy P. Carney, Washington Examiner, 12 Jan. 2024
• That's a record-high turnout among liberals in Ohio exit polls dating back to 1984.
  — Christine Filer, ABC News, 7 Nov. 2023
• That served as carte blanche for Patrick to paint Collier as an extreme liberal.
  — Dallas News, 8 Nov. 2022
• Casten is more of a centrist while Newman is more of a liberal.
  — Amber Phillips, Washington Post, 28 June 2022
• Sorry liberals, but this makes him a genius, and puts him higher than 99% of you all.
  — The Tylt, cleveland.com, 13 Oct. 2017
• If the votes of some conservative justices seemed in doubt, the liberals' views were clear.
  — Author: Mark Sherman, Matthew Barakat, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Oct. 2019
• After every mass shooting, the liberals start the blame game.
  — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 6 Aug. 2019
• On one side were black and white radicals and liberals.
  — Bill McGraw, Detroit Free Press, 29 July 2017
• But the best thing Barrett has going for her in Trump’s eyes might be how worried liberals are about her.
  — Dara Lind, Vox, 5 July 2018
• Free speech was a cause no liberal could in good conscience resist.
  — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2021
• But in what ways have liberals also played a part in this history?
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2020
• In which case, free trade is one way that true, classical liberals like Crane seek to bind the world together peacefully.
  — John Tamny, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024
• Rising academic liberals Teixeira also notes that this change has occurred as the party has increasingly become the home of voters who have at least a four-year college degree.
  — Ron Elving, NPR, 23 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024