How to Use suffrage in a Sentence

suffrage

noun
  • But like the path to suffrage, there were still a few twists to come.
    Madison Feller, ELLE, 27 May 2022
  • His death was one of many along the road toward suffrage rights.
    Tamika D. Mallory, Essence, 13 May 2021
  • By then the suffrage movement was in full force in Britain.
    Sarah Fielding, New York Times, 30 Oct. 2020
  • The Klan sprang up largely in response to Black suffrage.
    Condé Nast, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2023
  • When did women get the right to vote?:A brief look at women's suffrage.
    Caitlin McLean, USA TODAY, 14 Oct. 2022
  • The Kansas equal suffrage campaign launched in 1867 and Nichols was among the women leading the charge.
    USA Today, 13 Aug. 2020
  • The history of suffrage looked much different in Texas, and across the South.
    Shelby Stewart, Houston Chronicle, 18 Aug. 2020
  • Calls for genuine universal suffrage have long been at the heart of protests.
    New York Times, 8 Aug. 2021
  • In the late 1800s, the debate over women’s suffrage was intertwined with polygamy in Utah.
    Becky Jacobs, The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 July 2021
  • Some are in favor of suffrage, while others are against.
    USA Today, 18 Aug. 2020
  • Aptly called the War of the Roses, this was the final battle for women's suffrage.
    Abbie Kozolchyk, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Mar. 2023
  • For more than 80 years, the grave of the first woman to vote under an equal suffrage law in the United States was marked with a misspelled name.
    Becky Jacobs, The Salt Lake Tribune, 29 Sep. 2020
  • Bills to restore suffrage to 28 people were filed this year.
    Arkansas Online, 23 Sep. 2021
  • There's a placard on nearby Eighth Street that mentions that this was a suffrage site.
    Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 26 Aug. 2021
  • Yet Dowsett and others knew that suffrage was just the beginning.
    Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Aug. 2020
  • Equal suffrage met even more aggressive attacks in the South.
    Jon Grinspan, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Apr. 2021
  • Sri Lanka was the first country in Asia to get universal suffrage, way back in 1931.
    Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 22 July 2022
  • Purple, gold and white were the colors of the suffrage flags often flown during the campaign for passage of the 19th Amendment.
    Sylvia Gurinsky, sun-sentinel.com, 22 Oct. 2020
  • But this was the HQ for the women’s suffrage movement, the birthplace of a woman’s voice in very governance of our nation.
    Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2023
  • The second piece, a bluebird amulet, is a nod to the animal which has been a symbol of the women’s suffrage movement since the early 1900s.
    Brande Victorian, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Nov. 2023
  • In ‘She Votes,’ 100 women artists retell the suffrage movement story.
    Taylor Kate Brown, SFChronicle.com, 12 Aug. 2020
  • Many women came to the event dressed in white, the color of the suffrage movement, while others carried signs and told the stories of early fighters for the vote.
    Lee Roop | Lroop@al.com, al, 24 Oct. 2021
  • For example, the suffrage movement and the teaching of it focuses on white women and their right to vote.
    Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 8 Mar. 2023
  • So, how did purple and gold, along with white, become the women’s suffrage colors?
    Joy Wallace Dickinson, orlandosentinel.com, 23 Aug. 2020
  • The Swiss suffrage movement has had a profound influence on her work, as did the invention of the music video.
    Brittanie Shey, Chron, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Activists Alice Paul and Lucy Burns take the women’s suffrage movement by storm.
    Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2021
  • So how does all of this tie into her involvement in women’s suffrage?
    Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Feb. 2024
  • At the state level, however, the push for youth suffrage gained some momentum.
    Manisha Claire, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Nov. 2020
  • These efforts date back to the women’s suffrage movement, and many groups played a pivotal role during the Civil Rights Movement.
    Tribune News Service, Orlando Sentinel, 17 June 2024
  • The voices of Black women such as Harper have mostly been overlooked by historians in accounts of the battles over suffrage.
    Foreign Affairs, 13 Oct. 2020

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