How to Use herstory in a Sentence

herstory

noun
  • How many other drag queens in herstory have had their own major cable TV shows?
    — Elyssa Goodman, Billboard, 7 Dec. 2017
  • The film follows two stewardesses racing to save a high-speed train when a massive storm threatens to cause the greatest train wreck in herstory.
    — Lily Brown, PEOPLE, 11 June 2026
  • The drag star, who ended up making it to the final four, made herstory this season as the second trans man to ever compete in the franchise.
    — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 17 Jan. 2024
  • The queens of the House of Light are challenged by their rivals of House of Di’abolique — and the rest is herstory.
    — Michael Andor Brodeur, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Apr. 2018
  • But what's really got pulses racing is a little bit of herstory repeating.
    — Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 24 Mar. 2022
  • But thankfully, the photographer was able to wrangle down a number of these fabulous queens for a shoot that's sure to go down in herstory.
    — Gabe Bergado, Teen Vogue, 12 Sep. 2017
  • Though rare, women in ska and on the mic aren’t new, and Sister Nancy is here to remind everyone of this herstory.
    — Heather Augustyn, Spin, 10 Oct. 2023
  • These tales lurking under the surface are finally springing to the fore, jumping from the footnotes to the main text, making herstory.
    — Judy Batalion, Time, 8 Apr. 2021
  • Throughout the varied herstory of the show, queens have been disqualified, queens have returned, rules have been re-written and audiences have been left speechless.
    — Stephen Daw, Billboard, 2 Mar. 2018
  • And some critics pointed that out back in the 1970s, saying that the invention of herstory showed ignorance about where the word comes from.
    — Katy Steinmetz, Time, 23 June 2017
  • No queen has ever been eliminated, returned to the same contest, and won Drag Race in the show's 12-year herstory.
    — Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 31 Aug. 2021
  • The show is a look at America's messy history, or maybe in this case herstory, that has continued to have a major effect on current politics.
    — Shannon Carlin, refinery29.com, 15 Apr. 2020
  • And the liberty to tell one’s story, one’s history, herstory, their story, and be heard, is profoundly American.
    — Jeryl Brunner, Forbes, 24 Apr. 2022
  • This past season has been no exception, with Season 9 being more jam-packed with herstory than Trinity Taylor's face is with botox.
    — Gabe Bergado, Teen Vogue, 23 June 2017
  • Proud and excited to be witnessing #herstory alongside these leading ladies as more women have won seats in the US House of Representatives than ever before.
    — Lucy Wood, Marie Claire, 23 Nov. 2018
  • Farrah Moan's as some of the most adorably off-beat dancing in the show's herstory), Jan further etched her name into the Drag Race legacy by exiting the show under unprecedented circumstances.
    — Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 29 July 2021
  • New Zealand made history — or herstory — this week as female lawmakers became the majority, narrowly outnumbering their male counterparts in Parliament for the first time.
    — Adela Suliman, Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2022
  • The influential drag competition series is back in the United Kingdom, with 12 new queens vying to make herstory — including the franchise’s first-ever cisgender woman contestant.
    — NBC News, 3 Nov. 2021

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