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
• Ferraro wore a white suit in a nod to women's suffrage.
  — Sarah Ewall-Wice and Caitlin Huey-Burns, CBS News, 23 Apr. 2020
• 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
• All in the hopes that men would vote in favor of women’s suffrage in the referendums.
  — New York Times, 28 Apr. 2020
• In 1914, Nevada became the last western state to pass suffrage.
  — Christina Elizabeth Dando, The Conversation, 22 Oct. 2024
• 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 | [e-mail], 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
• The golden age neatly coincided with the height of the women’s suffrage movement in the United States and Britain.
  — Natalie Kinkade, JSTOR Daily, 25 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024