How to Use feminist in a Sentence

feminist

1 of 2 noun
  • And where did these feminists make so many of their historic stands?
    — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 30 Mar. 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
  • 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
  • We're tempted to ask, Was Agnes a feminist?
    — Mariel Carr, Scientific American, 20 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • Katie becomes a cause célèbre for a younger feminist and is mortified to see her face on T-shirts.
    — Judy Berman, Time, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Both have taught me immeasurably how to be a better feminist.
    — Chicago Tribune, 19 Apr. 2026
  • And my father was the ultimate father and feminist and just huge source of support.
    — Annie O’Sullivan, Good Housekeeping, 10 Oct. 2022
  • What if a feminist’s vaginal allusions were ditched for neon signage?
    — Martha Schwendener, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2024
  • 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
  • But both the socialist and the feminist are aware that not all bodies of water are created equal.
    — Zadie Smith, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Like some[thing] kind of like feminist but still traditional.
    — Meredith Wilshere, PEOPLE, 13 June 2026
  • 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
  • The inscription reads Dan Heller, which still tickles the feminist in her.
    — Lacey Rose, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Sep. 2023
  • The title track reads like a mission statement for young feminists everywhere.
    — Jonathan Van Meter, SPIN, 8 Apr. 2023
  • Some feminists saw that as presumption, skipping the long price of admission—slights, salaries, stares.
    — James Marcus, New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Sojourner Truth is an icon for her work as both an abolitionist and a feminist.
    — Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2023
  • This is not to idealize Mina herself, nor to claim her as a modern feminist.
    — Katherine Hobbs, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Mar. 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
  • Many young women know her as the godmother of China’s feminists.
    — Fiction Non Fiction, Literary Hub, 19 Feb. 2026
  • Amazon was—and for many remains—an enemy to feminists and feminist books and ideas.
    — Sara Youngblood Gregory, The New Republic, 7 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
  • Then, other organizers, Black feminists who have shown up for me.
    — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Mar. 2024
  • These goddesses were no feminists.
    — Vanessa Taylor, Big Think, 25 Sep. 2025
  • It was won thanks to the commitment, hard work and sometimes the total dedication of the first feminists.
    — Marni Rose McFall, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Yet feminists, ecologists, and the left have never ruled Turkey.
    — Kaya Genç, The New Republic, 4 Apr. 2023
  • Vietnam War protesters wore jeans embroidered with peace signs, while feminists wore jeans, not skirts, to claim equal rights.
    — Stephen Mihm, Twin Cities, 22 Aug. 2025

feminist

2 of 2 adjective
  • This is a re-telling with a feminist edge to it!
    — Amber McBride, Literary Hub, 5 Nov. 2025
  • The artist also sees her work through a feminist lens.
    — Jane Horowitz, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2026
  • 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
  • But feminist art is getting fun.
    — Literary Hub, 6 Nov. 2025
  • But feminist art is getting fun.
    — Lily Meyer, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2025
  • In a sense, the feminist movement had to gear up and that meant ditching girliness.
    — Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Even in this feminist space, there is a detriment to excluding men.
    — As Told To Bridgette Bartlett Royall, Essence, 29 Aug. 2023
  • There is a woman talking to me somehow, even though her films are not overtly feminist.
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 20 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • Plus, what does a ‘feminist’ approach to cancer involve?
    — TheWeek, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Plus, the movie is simply too goofy and good-natured for any of its feminist agitation to land.
    — Peter Tonguette, The Washington Examiner, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Also, boys and men who may have never spent any time thinking about feminist theory.
    — Zack Sharf, Variety, 2 Jan. 2024
  • But nobody owns Jael, and women don’t have to fit a feminist frame to be powerful.
    — Emma Green, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2026
  • What does a ‘feminist’ approach to cancer involve?
    — TheWeek, 6 Feb. 2026
  • The line quickly became a feminist slogan and is used more broadly today.
    — Hadley Heath Manning, National Review, 31 Mar. 2024
  • Even at a gathering of feminist thinkers, this was not a popular statement.
    — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2023
  • She was born in the 70s, and her own feminist awakening happened with her first job out of college.
    — Fiction Non Fiction, Literary Hub, 19 Feb. 2026
  • Coup d’états, in which the usurpers are almost always men, don’t often get a reading by feminist scholars.
    — Foreign Affairs, 16 Dec. 2025
  • This tennis match was a symbolic feminist civil war.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 28 Jan. 2026
  • The surreal nugget of feminist pop-punk went to number one on the radio charts in Colombia.
    — Beverly Bryan, SPIN, 14 Mar. 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
  • 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
  • It is considered a classic of the second-wave feminist movement.
    — Michael Schaub, Oc Register, 25 June 2026
  • However, the film had very little to do with the male gaze and has since been reevaluated as a feminist cult classic.
    — Mathew Rodriguez, Them., 23 Sep. 2025
  • Creed sees the current wave of feminist horror as the tradition finally catching up to that idea.
    — Kennedy French, Variety, 6 Mar. 2026
  • To ruin his day with the collective feminist power of the Etsy coven would be my life's greatest joy.
    — Robert Birsel, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Sep. 2025
  • But the daughter of late feminist and civil rights activist Roxcy Bolton isn’t ready to call it quits just yet.
    — Catherine Odom, Miami Herald, 11 Feb. 2026
  • The song became a global feminist anthem, and the video a touchstone for her unmistakable style.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 9 Nov. 2025
  • So is Winterson; for her, Shahrazad is a model of feminist genius.
    — Dan Sheehan, Literary Hub, 22 Jan. 2026
  • You could be forgiven for wondering if the most extreme radical feminist polemics were right.
    — Literary Hub, 15 Apr. 2026

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