How to Use suffrage in a Sentence

suffrage

noun
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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Aptly called the War of the Roses, this was the final battle for women's suffrage.
    — Abbie Kozolchyk, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • So how does all of this tie into her involvement in women’s suffrage?
    — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Feb. 2024
  • Her lack of legal standing as a woman inspired her to join the women’s suffrage movement.
    — Ian Zack, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2023
  • Born poor, Woodhull was a leader of the women's suffrage movement and spoke before congress.
    — Jeryl Brunner, Forbes, 24 Apr. 2022
  • Men were urged to show their support by putting on purple shirts, ties or socks (the color purple carries historic ties to the suffrage movement).
    — David Noyce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 15 Dec. 2022
  • None of them were suffrage leaders, although Brown played a role in the movement and Hooker later expressed sympathy for the cause.
    — Daniela Altimari, courant.com, 28 Mar. 2021
  • Eva Perón, the former first lady famous for the passage of women’s suffrage in Argentina, is buried here.
    — Harrison Pierce, Travel + Leisure, 1 Oct. 2023
  • When Cecilia Payne started at Newnham in 1919, the worldwide suffrage movement was in full swing.
    — Lucy Evans, Scientific American, 22 June 2023
  • Good things are, similarly, the things whose goodness is well known, such as women’s suffrage and the civil-rights movement.
    — Thomas Frank, Harper's Magazine, 22 June 2021
  • The state that birthed the women’s suffrage movement has never elected a woman as governor, or mayor of New York City.
    — Charlotte Alter, Time, 30 Sep. 2021
  • After the passage of suffrage in 1920, there were a few women drawing comics and single-panel cartoons.
    — Liza Donnelly, Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2022
  • Male voters passed women’s suffrage as the first initiative.
    — AZCentral.com, 23 Aug. 2022
  • In 1913, Norway became the first country to allow women’s suffrage.
    — Gayle E. Smith, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Some of the women who led the suffrage movement were also important figures in the early civil rights movement.
    — Raymond Pierce, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2021
  • The house also played a role in the county’s slave economy, the Civil War, the temperance and women’s suffrage movements, and the introduction of the telephone.
    — Frank Batavick, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 11 June 2021

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