LIBERTY in a Sentence

Learn LIBERTY from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
225 example sentences for LIBERTY, such as:
1. There is less glory and more liberty.
2. Of intentional liberty there is none.
3. People often have to fight for their liberty.
4. Do no through fear of poverty surrender liberty.
5. That sinister victory was vanquished by liberty.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of LIBERTY
liberty
 n.  freedom of choice
 n.  leave granted to a sailor or naval officer
Classic Sentence: (194 in 13 pages)
1  He was forced to make a choice; he determined, in virtue of that gift of God called liberty, to run the gauntlet six-and-thirty times.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In II
2  Jean Valjean had been dazzled by the idea of liberty.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IX—NEW TROUBLES
3  He very speedily perceived what sort of liberty it is to which a yellow passport is provided.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IX—NEW TROUBLES
4  Their form was restricted, but their liberty was great.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE YEAR 1817
5  Is it a question of country, he enlists; is it a question of liberty, he tears up the pavements.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—AT BOMBARDA'S
6  The latter do what they please, punish them, as seems good to them, and confiscate at their will those two sorry things which they entitle their industry and their liberty.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XIII—THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED WIT...
7  It was evident that Javert must have been exasperated beyond measure before he would permit himself to apostrophize the sergeant as he had done, after the mayor's suggestion that Fantine should be set at liberty.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XIII—THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED WIT...
8  He should have to bid farewell to that existence which was so good, so pure, so radiant, to the respect of all, to honor, to liberty.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—A TEMPEST IN A SKULL
9  There is less glory and more liberty.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI—QUOT LIBRAS IN DUCE?
10  To us, Waterloo is but the stupefied date of liberty.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVII—IS WATERLOO TO BE CONSIDERED GOOD?
11  That sinister victory was vanquished by liberty.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVII—IS WATERLOO TO BE CONSIDERED GOOD?
12  Of intentional liberty there is none.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVII—IS WATERLOO TO BE CONSIDERED GOOD?
13  He is said to have profited by this interval of three or four days of liberty, to withdraw a considerable sum deposited by him with one of our leading bankers.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—NUMBER 24,601 BECOMES NUMBER 9,430
14  Interference with individual liberty was a grave matter.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER X—WHICH EXPLAINS HOW JAVERT GOT ON THE SCENT
15  In the second, perpetuity; the sole hope, at the distant extremity of the future, that faint light of liberty which men call death.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IX—CLOISTERED
Example Sentence: (31 in 3 pages)
1  The sum ofbehavior is to retain a man's own dignity, without in -truing upon the liberty ofothers.
2  The sum of behaviour is to retain a man's own dignity, without intruding upon the liberty of others.
3  There is in liberty as in innocence and virtue a satisfaction one can only feel in their enjoyment and a pleasure which can cease only when lost.
4  I am ready to die for my Lord, that in my blood the Church may obtain liberty and peace.
5  Among a people general corrupt, liberty cannot long exist.
6  It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty, or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.
7  He called on his people to carry forward their struggle for national liberty.
8  The city won its liberty in the sixteenth century.
9  The concept of individual liberty is enshrined in the constitution.
10  They looked to the country as the last refuge of liberty.
11  Do no through fear of poverty surrender liberty.
12  People often have to fight for their liberty.
13  Wealth may be an excellent thing, for it means power, leisure, and liberty.
14  For most citizens, liberty means the freedom to practise their religious or political beliefs.
15  The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of government power.