How to Use feminism in a Sentence

feminism

noun
  • Men, many men, seem to hate feminism.
    — Literary Hub, 15 Apr. 2026
  • That is a choice that could not be made without feminism.
    — Letters To The Editor, Washington Post, 13 May 2026
  • There’s this idea that feminism has gone too far, so let’s see the manosphere drag them down.
    — Lucy Morgan, Glamour, 13 Mar. 2026
  • But these are the fields on which the grassroots of feminism were fought.
    — Sarah Gristwood, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Feb. 2024
  • The movie’s feminism might have been too subtle for teenage me.
    — Wesley Morris, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2020
  • Thus, feminism does not harm our country.
    — Letters To The Editor, Washington Post, 13 May 2026
  • Perhaps even more than feminism, many men seem to hate women.
    — Literary Hub, 15 Apr. 2026
  • At first glance, this might seem hard to reconcile with feminism.
    — Sigal Samuel, Vox, 6 Apr. 2025
  • Some people took it as feminism.
    — Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 8 June 2026
  • Shelly, having lived that life, is more open to the aspects of feminism that weren’t talked about.
    — Selome Hailu, Variety, 14 Apr. 2022
  • The big tracksuit can be hot and can also be a very current kind of feminism.
    — Chloe Schama, Vogue, 24 Sep. 2020
  • Meghan has long focused on women’s rights and feminism.
    — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 14 Oct. 2025
  • She was also seen as flouting some of the tenets of second-wave feminism.
    — New York Times, 9 Dec. 2021
  • That was the tie between beauty and feminism.
    — Alexis Benveniste, Allure, 2 Apr. 2026
  • This made its feminism a little more palatable.
    — Literary Hub, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Spielberg’s movie is also a tale of feminism.
    — Pamela McClintock, HollywoodReporter, 23 Oct. 2025
  • But new research shows that feminism doesn’t make the cut in their progressive views.
    — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Her label just didn’t extend her feminism to the choice of remixers.
    — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 23 Jan. 2020
  • The tides of feminism and witchcraft have always been tightly linked.
    — Kate Wheeling, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Oct. 2022
  • Anne Klein captured the new feminism.
    — Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Gone, too, is bell hooks, the writer who shaped discussions about race, feminism and class.
    — Eliza Fawcett, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2023
  • In the last few years the rise of the #MeToo movement has led to a new wave of feminism.
    — al, 21 Feb. 2020
  • How can a kind of unified feminism emerge out of that kind of a situation?
    — Joy-Ann Reid, Cosmopolitan, 13 Feb. 2018
  • But there may have been occasions when the queen has tried, in her own queenly way, to score a point for feminism.
    — Karla Adam, Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2022
  • It has been cited in academia and used in college courses on feminism and pop culture.
    — Essence, 23 Apr. 2021
  • And, of course, there are the black men who claim that (white) feminism is inspiring black women to hate black men.
    — Terrell Jermaine Starr, The Root, 9 May 2018
  • Or the pink Bic pens marketed as a bold leap forward for feminism?
    — Dani Di Placido, Forbes, 4 May 2021
  • To boot, the book ends with the revelation that the villain all along was feminism.
    — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 8 June 2018
  • That contrast serves to undercut the lip service to feminism done by the script.
    — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 12 June 2018
  • For her creators to give her Larry David footwear in the name of feminism?
    — Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 20 Jan. 2022

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