How to Use feminist in a Sentence

feminist

1 of 2 noun

• As an avid art lover and a feminist, I was taken aback, and said as much to the others.
  — Nicholas Ivor Martin and Jacobina Martin, oregonlive, 19 Apr. 2023
• The Sisterhood was a group of these and other Black feminists who met once a month in the late ’70s.
  — Boris Kachka, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2023
• Joyce is the textbook feminist, but has no street smarts.
  — Selome Hailu, Variety, 14 Apr. 2022
• And where did these feminists make so many of their historic stands?
  — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2023
• More:The men behind the new 'Magic Mike' movie aim for feminist and funny.
  — Kimi Robinson, The Arizona Republic, 22 Feb. 2023
• Inside, the spaces looked like a young feminist’s dream come true.
  — Paige McGlauflin, Fortune, 7 Oct. 2022
• Miss Manners fails to see how this attacks you as a feminist.
  — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 9 Jan. 2024
• The inscription reads Dan Heller, which still tickles the feminist in her.
  — Lacey Rose, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Sep. 2023
• Whether or not to call the film feminist is not the only disagreement the film’s creative team had with Mattel.
  — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 June 2023
• Some feminists complained that the character was too ditsy and man-crazy and that her skirts were too short.
  — Maureen Dowd, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2024
• And my father was the ultimate father and feminist and just huge source of support.
  — Annie O’Sullivan, Good Housekeeping, 10 Oct. 2022
• Though his choice in scripts can sometimes be suspect, Scott may be the movies’ most consistent stealth feminist.
  — Joshua Rothkopf, Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2023
• Lesbian feminists adopted the labrys axe as a symbol during the 1970s.
  — Claire Gillespie, Health, 13 Dec. 2023
• Through song, Black feminists have been able to share their messages and stories not just with their peers but with society at large.
  — Candice Jalili, Rolling Stone, 3 Apr. 2023
• The Duchess is a mother, feminist and champion of human rights.
  — Stephanie Petit, Peoplemag, 30 Nov. 2022
• Ball of fire, feminist, and all-around queen, Cosentino doesn’t take prisoners.
  — Kaely Monahan, The Arizona Republic, 7 Mar. 2023
• There’s also a lot of feminist and Black empowerment themes in your work.
  — Okla Jones, Essence, 2 Sep. 2023
• The whole thing can read, at times, as a game of corporate-feminist Mad Libs made corporeal.
  — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 2 June 2021
• The first volume in the feminist’s Love Song to the Nation trilogy considers compassion as a form of love.
  — Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2022
• In the wake of the 2016 election, people accused feminists of seeing Gilead everywhere—you’re alarmist!
  — Juliana Ukiomogbe, ELLE, 22 Aug. 2023
• The difference in tenor between Aurat March and the protests of Pakistan’s feminists in the nineteen-eighties is striking.
  — Mira Sethi, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2023
• This is not to idealize Mina herself, nor to claim her as a modern feminist.
  — Katherine Hobbs, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Mar. 2023
• The program is a long-time brewing for Lauper, who’s been vocal about her identity as a feminist.
  — Amina Niasse, Billboard, 11 Oct. 2022
• The episode dismayed some feminists, who said her tears had reinforced stereotypes and set back the cause of women seeking office.
  — Katharine Q. Seelye, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2023
• The quintessentially faithful Latter-day Saint feminist just had to write and publish.
  — Peggy Fletcher Stack, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 Nov. 2022
• Maybe the movie would be an idiosyncratic, subversive, even feminist take on the doll, not just a commercial for Mattel.
  — Time, 27 June 2023
• Their tense day-to-day life on the farm is turned upside down when Laura’s mother, Solange (Deneuve), an eccentric French feminist, shows up unannounced.
  — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 30 Oct. 2023
• The work didn’t sit well with feminists, who accused Mr. Brakhage of objectifying his wife.
  — Penelope Green, New York Times, 7 Dec. 2023
• Dai An, a feminist in the southwestern city of Chengdu, said Chinese women have become more willing to speak up.
  — Nectar Gan, CNN, 15 May 2023
• Sojourner Truth is an icon for her work as both an abolitionist and a feminist.
  — Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2023

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feminist

2 of 2 adjective

• The story is set against the feminist movement of the 1970s.
  — Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2023
• Earhart was one of the greatest pilots of her time, and broke the glass ceiling in the feminist movement.
  — Chris Eberhart, Fox News, 30 Jan. 2024
• In a sense, the feminist movement had to gear up and that meant ditching girliness.
  — Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 10 Aug. 2023
• Whether this was or was not a feminist series is a question that still prompts think pieces.
  — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2023
• The surreal nugget of feminist pop-punk went to number one on the radio charts in Colombia.
  — Beverly Bryan, SPIN, 14 Mar. 2024
• Lost in the decades since has been her bravery in choosing to stake it all on a film that was unabashedly feminist and Jewish.
  — Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 7 Nov. 2023
• Even in this feminist space, there is a detriment to excluding men.
  — As Told To Bridgette Bartlett Royall, Essence, 29 Aug. 2023
• Helped by her best friend Pauline, a jobless lawyer, she is acquitted on the grounds of self-defense and becomes a star, as well as a feminist icon.
  — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 14 Jan. 2023
• Among them are: The #MeToo movement giving rise to feminist values in young women.
  — Luba Kassova, Fortune, 8 Mar. 2024
• The Oscar contender for Austria is a fictional account of one year in the life of the 19th century monarch told through a feminist lens.
  — Jessica Wang, EW.com, 15 Jan. 2023
• He was set to preside over the César Awards, France’s equivalent of the Oscars, but was dropped in early 2017 under pressure from feminist groups.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Mar. 2024
• There is also a strong feminist movement in El Salvador.
  — Christopher Soto, Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2023
• The line quickly became a feminist slogan and is used more broadly today.
  — Hadley Heath Manning, National Review, 31 Mar. 2024
• But that would have been a depressing note to end on, and done nothing for the image the film seeks to build up for Hite as a feminist heroine, practically martyred for telling the truth.
  — Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Jan. 2023
• In the decade-plus since Jennifer’s Body premiered, this Diablo Cody film has become a feminist cult classic.
  — Claudia Guthrie, ELLE, 29 Aug. 2023
• While women in America still have a long way to go in our fight for true equality, our nation is no stranger to feminist movements.
  — Candice Jalili, Rolling Stone, 3 Apr. 2023
• The fact that Barbie, such a sharp, funny, feminist success, was so comprehensively shut out, felt like a shift in mood.
  — Sarah Crompton, Vogue, 8 Jan. 2024
• Since its release, the film has been heralded for its feminist message and its creative world-building.
  — Carlos De Loera, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2023
• Even at a gathering of feminist thinkers, this was not a popular statement.
  — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2023
• As Spain hurtles towards democracy, Bea joins the feminist cause and, to her surprise, falls in love with another girl.
  — John Hopewell, Variety, 16 May 2023
• Janice Allred, a feminist theologian, was cut off in 1995.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 Sep. 2023
• Her books sold more than half a million copies in the first half of this year, ranging from broad discussions of misogyny to feminist approaches to elder care.
  — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2023
• Also, boys and men who may have never spent any time thinking about feminist theory.
  — Zack Sharf, Variety, 2 Jan. 2024
• The footage—which has been screened by the family multiple times over the years, and as part of a feminist art installation designed by Eleanor—was the first of many instances in which Sofia would be seen through her father’s lens.
  — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2024
• The author’s website describes Hood Feminism as a book that explains how the feminist movement failed many women.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 15 Sep. 2023
• But his inline skates, decorated with feminist and gay pride stickers, called his name again 16 years later.
  — Mary Claire Molloy, Washington Post, 8 Aug. 2023
• And this glorious feminist spectacle that is the Barbie movie.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 1 Aug. 2023
• The influencer saved her most controversial take for last: Daycare is feminist garbage too.
  — Laura Jedeed, The New Republic, 13 June 2023
• And as with the Enola Holmes movies, Brown is the best part of this feminist spin on what’s usually a boys’ adventure narrative involving slashing swords and slaying beasts.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 7 Mar. 2024
• On the schlock side, Reeder dunks her feminist message, and her characters, literally in buckets of blood.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Feb. 2023

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