How to Use emancipate in a Sentence

emancipate

verb
Definition of emancipatenext
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  • He felt the only way to emancipate himself from his parents was to move away.
  • By this point, the northern states had emancipated all their slaves.
    — John Steele Gordon, WSJ, 28 June 2019
  • Many whites, even those who wanted to emancipate slaves, didn’t want them around.
    — Jeff Suess, Cincinnati.com, 11 May 2017
  • And the goal of white feminism itself is to simply emancipate white women from white men.
    — Clarkisha Kent, The Root, 18 Jan. 2018
  • 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
  • To be antiracist is to emancipate oneself from the dueling consciousness.
    — David Montgomery, Washington Post, 14 Oct. 2019
  • Bynes sought to legally emancipate herself from her parents, then withdrew the petition.
    — Mia McNiece, Peoplemag, 26 Sep. 2022
  • Trump has given them powerful and righteous motives to emancipate themselves.
    — John Diaz, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Jan. 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Juneteenth commemorates the day all enslaved people in the United States learned that they were emancipated.
    — Maggie Horton, Country Living, 19 June 2023
  • 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
  • Major, the Maryland Club will now house emancipated Negro refugees.
    — Anna Deavere Smith, The Atlantic, 13 Nov. 2023
  • His mom had Hart’s brother legally emancipated after he got mixed up in some criminal behavior as a teenager.
    — Amy Kaufman, Los Angeles Times, 30 July 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
  • The third element covered by the injunction would prevent anyone from aiding a minor who isn’t emancipated from her parents while seeking an abortion.
    — Rick Callahan, The Seattle Times, 29 June 2017
  • 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
  • According to comments from close observers, this year Holly emancipated her cubs, who will spend their first season foraging for their own meals.
    — Jeff Parrott, Anchorage Daily News, 26 June 2019
  • This was my first time away from home for an extended period and my last summer before becoming fully emancipated by getting my driver’s license.
    — Ernie Cowan Outdoors, sandiegouniontribune.com, 13 May 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Juneteenth recognizes and celebrates the day that Black Americans were emancipated from slavery.
    — Sudiksha Kochi, USA TODAY, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Cheryl became an honorary serpent and coupled up with Toni, while legally emancipating herself from her mother and taking control of Thistlehouse.
    — Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 10 Oct. 2018
  • Jenny Humphrey, who has been trying to emancipate herself from her family, is not-so-secretly staying with Eric.
    — Abrigail Williams, Vogue, 11 Nov. 2023
  • Modern Family actress Ariel Winter grew up with a rocky relationship with her parents and was legally emancipated last year.
    — Hannah Orenstein, Seventeen, 22 Mar. 2016

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