How to Use liberate in a Sentence

liberate

verb
Definition of liberatenext
Synonyms for liberatenext
  • He was using materials that he had liberated from a construction site.
  • Laptop computers could liberate workers from their desks.
  • His unit helped liberate a village that has been occupied since the very first days of the invasion.
    — Dan Lamothe, Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2022
  • Anyone who has ever tried to liberate themselves from any difficult situation will tell you that.
    — Victoria Spratt, refinery29.com, 12 July 2024
  • But by the time the ’80s had come and gone, some women had concluded that changing their shackles from the home to the workplace didn’t exactly liberate them.
    — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 15 Sep. 2022
  • Western leaders could help Ukraine build on successes and liberate more land with battle tanks and armored vehicles, Loss said.
    — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 13 Sep. 2022
  • Second, future engineers also might be able to arrange controlled collisions of planets or dead stars, to tap into the energy the crashes liberate.
    — Frank Wilczek, WSJ, 1 Sep. 2022
  • Her husband has become pessimistic about Ukraine’s chances to retake the region and liberate their home, but Ms. Larionovskaya has tried to boost his spirits.
    — Michael Schwirtz, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2022
  • Laurie, after allowing the specter of Michael to determine and drive her reality for decades, has decided to liberate herself from fear and rage and embrace life.
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 23 Aug. 2022
  • 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
  • The three dancers evoke the ties that bind and liberate us, from danger and seduction to love and wisdom.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Still, hearing your story at the right time could liberate your peers.
    — Chicago Tribune, 29 Nov. 2022
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • There's something liberating about the truth, that this is what's happening to me right now.
    — Shania Russell, EW.com, 15 June 2023
  • More than half fled before the Russians took over; many came back once Bucha was liberated.
    — Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2023
  • So far, only five hostages of Hamas have been liberated.
    — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 2 Nov. 2023
  • Then, near the 9th, a bit of outside-the-box thinking will liberate you from boring routines and solutions.
    — Katharine Merlin, Town & Country, 1 May 2023
  • After gaining their freedom, many served in the Union Army and fought to liberate others who were still enslaved.
    — Hojun Choi, Dallas News, 18 June 2023
  • Air assault units in Ukraine’s 10th Corps then moved in, but have been unable to liberate any other villages.
    — Washington Post Staff, Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2023
  • Two planets in the Trigon Sector are already liberated, a third is at 91%.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
  • And then, to liberate our territories, from the Chernihiv region to the Kharkiv region to the Kherson region.
    — Katya Soldak, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2023
  • Yet in a strange way his writing was liberated by the disappearance of hope.
    — Adam Kirsch, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2023
  • Most crypto buyers in recent years aren’t in it to liberate the world from the prying eyes of government.
    — Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Feb. 2024
  • In November, Dmytro and Roman were among the first soldiers to enter the city of Kherson as it was liberated.
    — Megan Specia, New York Times, 29 Oct. 2023
  • But that’s just the show—and the Roy children, sans the truly free and liberated Connor (Alan Ruck)–influencing its own audience with their own little game.
    — Carrie Wittmer, Men's Health, 29 May 2023
  • What was never beaten out of her was an innate sense of liberty—the knowledge, self-evident to her, that God intended for her to be liberated from bondage, spiritually as well as literally.
    — Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 24 June 2024

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