How to Use allyship in a Sentence

allyship

noun
  • Did these two women present you with this flag to acknowledge your allyship?
    — Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 26 Jan. 2022
  • Now support for Depp is taken as a sign of allyship with male victims of abuse.
    — Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 17 May 2022
  • This eye-catching pendant is the perfect way to show your Pride or allyship.
    — Jamie Ballard, Woman's Day, 29 Apr. 2022
  • Minus four points for lack of allyship with Jennifer Coolidge.
    — Samantha Allen, Them, 25 Mar. 2025
  • Another way to respectfully show your allyship is to ask to be called out.
    — Maggie O'Neill, Health.com, 30 July 2020
  • Read on to learn more about allyship for different groups and spaces and ways to practice allyship.
    — Claire Gillespie, Health, 10 Nov. 2023
  • Women in tech are tired of being overlooked in favor of allyship theater.
    — Allyson Kapin, Fortune, 28 Dec. 2023
  • As a cisgender man, however, his allyship can only go so far.
    — Pamela Avila, USA TODAY, 30 Mar. 2023
  • In fact, allyship can be essential to the success of social movements.
    — Preeti Vani, Fortune, 4 Apr. 2024
  • For Goulding, allyship is the base layer of a larger concept.
    — Gabaccia Moreno, Outside Online, 1 July 2021
  • Lopez has also been flexing her allyship to trans and nonbinary people for a minute now.
    — Abby Monteil, Them, 3 Mar. 2025
  • Our country is facing a racial crisis, and allyship has never been more important.
    — Ellen McGirt, Fortune, 6 May 2022
  • There are real-world consequences of a lack of allyship and mentorship to stand up for women in the workplace.
    — Tara Fitzpatrick-Navarro, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2025
  • Often, her presence feels like a test of Calvin or Elizabeth’s allyship.
    — TIME, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Black allyship in your organization should not be limited to only one month a year.
    — Historicons, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2023
  • The beauty of allyship, when practiced well, is that the benefits largely come to those who are trying to be allies.
    — Julie Kratz, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2025
  • Our 144 have always stood together as sisters and an allyship.
    — Shakeia Taylor, Chicago Tribune, 9 July 2022
  • Up to this point, allyship is one area of DEI that hasn’t, and hopefully won’t, face backlash.
    — Teresa Hopke, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
  • The future of wellness entails a thorough synergy and allyship with the human body.
    — Ximena Araya-Fischel, Forbes.com, 29 May 2025
  • Using that power to create allyship and ensure that others can tell their stories will define my success for the rest of my life.
    — Marcus K. Dowling, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025
  • Games resumed in July, complete with plenty of pageantry and no small amount of performative allyship.
    — Jason Parham, Wired, 2 Oct. 2020
  • The congresswoman, who is Black, is known among communities of color for her allyship.
    — Shirley Leung, BostonGlobe.com, 25 May 2023
  • Know that allyship is crucial to Black professionals in the current social climate.
    — Maya Richard-Craven, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2025
  • The experience changed both Manford’s life and the course of allyship in America.
    — Jillian Eugenios, NBC News, 11 Mar. 2023
  • There’s a fine line between allyship and exploitation, and most corporations toe it during Pride Month.
    — Jasmine Browley, Essence, 30 June 2023
  • The deepening allyship between the two groups came as the racial position of American Jews started to shift.
    — Harmeet Kaur, CNN, 4 Apr. 2023
  • To accomplish this, Cadence has 90% of its managers around the world complete unconscious bias and allyship trainings.
    — Ted Kitterman, Fortune, 16 Nov. 2023
  • The unglamorous work of allyship is an awareness of the privileged space one occupies, and Aluko was right to point out the importance of that awareness in her interview.
    — Tamerra Griffin, New York Times, 1 May 2025
  • Michelle points to awareness and the celebration of diversity as a tool to that has helped catalyze allyship among CAR members.
    — Ahmmad Brown, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
  • This was quite the popular thing to discuss in the late ’70s when visions of allyship were clearly changing, perhaps all too fast for the people depicted here in Feud.
    — Manuel Betancourt, Vulture, 28 Feb. 2024

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