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
• Stormy seas can liberate that carbon from the ocean into the air.
  — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Nov. 2020
• Evol sees it as a place where Black artists can create and liberate.
  — Jenna Ross, Star Tribune, 25 Feb. 2021
• 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
• When the Russians came in to liberate it, the Nazis didn’t have enough time to burn everything down.
  — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 31 Oct. 2024
• 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
• Then the fight to liberate parents from the market begins again.
  — Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 10 Mar. 2021
• 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 song may have helped liberate Tina, as Heller notes, but her cover also pushed the genre forward.
  — Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 27 Mar. 2021
• But the real question is: Who will liberate Sassy from Roy Moore?
  — J.d. Crowe | [e-mail], al, 30 Sep. 2020
• 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
• The team would arrive with chainsaws ready to liberate.
  — Joe Mario Pedersen, orlandosentinel.com, 12 Apr. 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
• The stated goal of the US involvement is not to liberate women repressed by the Taliban or to end that regime.
  — Zachary B. Wolf, CNN, 14 Apr. 2021
• There's something liberating about the truth, that this is what's happening to me right now.
  — Shania Russell, EW.com, 15 June 2023
• The military administration for the southern city of Kherson -- liberated from Russian control in the fall of 2022 -- reported at least seven civilians injured by a Russian drone strike on a taxi in the city on Sunday morning.
  — David Brennan, ABC News, 1 Dec. 2024
• Trump is also liberated from any concerns about criminal prosecution for his conduct while in office.
  — Barbara McQuade, TIME, 6 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 25 Dec 2024