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Examples of suffragette in a Sentence
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Is that a reference to the suffragettes, Agnes Garrett and Millicent Fawcett?
—Cameron K McEwan, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 May 2024
Women won the right to vote in 1920 when the 19th Amendment was ratified, but three years before that one suffragette became Congress’ first female representative.
—Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 27 Mar. 2024
White is historically associated with suffragettes.
—Kelsey Ables, Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2024
Glynis Johns Glynis Johns, who played dedicated suffragette mother Winifred Banks in the original Mary Poppins, died on Jan. 4 at age 100.
—Ew Staff, EW.com, 23 Feb. 2024
Since it was slashed in 1914 by a suffragette, it’s been a target for whoever’s irked by whatever.
—Brian T. Allen, National Review, 23 Dec. 2023
The same painting was slashed by suffragette Mary Richardson in 1914 in protest.
—Mallory Moench, TIME, 11 Nov. 2023
In 1914, suffragette Mary Richardson slashed the Rokeby Venus with a hatchet to protest the imprisonment of women’s rights activist Emmeline Pankhurst.
—Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Nov. 2023
Glynis Johns, the British actress who starred as suffragette Winifred Banks in Mary Poppins alongside Julie Andrews, died at 100 in an assisted living facility in Los Angeles on Thursday, her manager, Mitch Clem, confirmed to the New York Times.
—Vulture, 4 Jan. 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
1906, in the meaning defined above
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“Suffragette.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/suffragette. Accessed 1 Jun. 2024.
Kids Definition
suffragette
noun
suf·frag·ette
ˌsəf-ri-ˈjet
: a woman who supported voting rights for women when women were not allowed to vote
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