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Examples of suffragette in a Sentence
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Robertson, a Milwaukee philanthropist who is 108 years old, started the program in 2016 in memory of her late mother, Roberts, a pacifist and suffragette.
—Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 12 Apr. 2024
If that's the case, the kid might wonder, then what was the point of the civil rights and suffragette movements?
—Theunis Bates, theweek, 5 Mar. 2024
Franklin Walking Tours has a Fierce Females tour, which highlights noted residents like the suffragettes that helped earn voting rights for women and the town’s first female mayor.
—Caroline Eubanks, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Jan. 2023
May Wright Sewall: suffragette 1844-1920 Sewall founded a female counterpart to the Indianapolis Classical School for Boys (started by her second husband) in 1882 and insisted that the curriculum for girls mirror that for boys.
—Domenica Bongiovanni, The Indianapolis Star, 12 Aug. 2016
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
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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 16 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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