LIBERAL in a Sentence

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You have expended a great deal on my education, and have always been as liberal to me in all things as it was possible to be.

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 Meanings and Examples of LIBERAL
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liberal
 a.  open-minded; tolerant; broad-mindedness; having political views favoring reform and progress
Classic Sentence: (93 in 7 pages)
1  Henry deeply felt the misfortune of being debarred from a liberal education.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
2  It has been dignified and liberal.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 37
3  The interest of the impending pursuit not only absorbed the general attention, but even made my sister liberal.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter V
4  This is wery liberal on your part, Pip," said Joe, "and it is as such received and grateful welcome, though never looked for, far nor near, nor nowheres.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XIII
5  You have expended a great deal on my education, and have always been as liberal to me in all things as it was possible to be.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 23. I CORROBORATE Mr. DICK, AND CHOOSE A PROFESSI...
6  Stepan Arkadyevitch took in and read a liberal paper, not an extreme one, but one advocating the views held by the majority.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 3
7  The liberal party said that in Russia everything is wrong, and certainly Stepan Arkadyevitch had many debts and was decidedly short of money.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 3
8  And then all this enormous literature of the labor question, the most liberal Lassalle movement.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 27
9  Stepan Arkadyevitch, for all his liberal views, was well aware that to meet Karenin was sure to be felt a flattering distinction, and so treated his best friends to this honor.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: Chapter 9
10  In the corps Golenishtchev had belonged to the liberal party; he left the corps without entering the army, and had never taken office under the government.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 7
11  Above all, he was known to be liberal and hospitable, and believed to be good-natured.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
12  He was just entering into life, full of spirits, and with all the liberal dispositions of an eldest son, who feels born only for expense and enjoyment.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
13  I have been a liberal housekeeper enough, but I shall not be ashamed to practise economy now.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
14  These civilities would probably be extended much farther, but for a liberal exercise of the Jew's toasting-fork on the heads and shoulders of the affectionate youths who offered them.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
15  It is very fit they should have daughters' shares; and I am sure he has always been a very kind, liberal father to me.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22
Example Sentence: (45 in 4 pages)
16  The group was characterized as being well-educated and liberal.
17  In a liberal democracy this needs to be scrutinized constantly, and herein lies the first problem for the researcher.
18  Poor and liberal, rich and covetous.
19  For hard-line Republicans, the word 'liberal' had become a pejorative term.
20  His views, and those of many of his counterparts in other European countries, may be unpalatable to the liberal political mainstream, but they clearly struck a chord among a portion of the population which is increasingly unsettled by the growing number of immigrants to Europe.
21  His views may be not agreeable to the liberal political mainstream.
22  You see, empathy is a code word for favoring criminal defendants, plaintiffs, labor and other groups which happen to match up with the liberal policy agenda.
23  Or would that make me a crazy liberal because I want to be liberated from the fear?
24  I'm easy going and tolerant too, but I would definitely not agree that I am liberal.
25  Immigration reform, largely sidelined by economic issues in Obama's first term, is part of an ambitious liberal agenda he laid out in his second inaugural address on Monday
26  Summers' ascent to the top of the list to succeed Bernanke rankled some of the president's liberal supporters.
27  Simon Bolivar, who led the South American colonies in their rebellion against Spanish rule, is known as the great liberator.
28  Large vases of flowers were liberally scattered about the room.
29  Apply the glue liberally to both surfaces.
30  Apply the suntan cream liberally to exposed areas every three hours and after swimming.