How to Use statehood in a Sentence

statehood

noun
  • That is likely where the fight for statehood ends, at least for now.
    — Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2020
  • At the same time, Democrats have championed the cause for statehood.
    — Nicholas Rowan, Washington Examiner, 18 Oct. 2020
  • The results were neck and neck, with statehood coming out slightly ahead.
    — Alicia Kennedy, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Nov. 2020
  • But miners balked at the taxes statehood would bring -- and opposed it.
    — Anna Alejo, CBS News, 7 Apr. 2026
  • Overseas most Sikhs view the protests through the prism of livelihood, not statehood.
    — Sadanand Dhume, WSJ, 10 Dec. 2020
  • Were there actual public easements to streambeds on the books at the time of statehood?
    — Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 17 Aug. 2021
  • That could put Pierluisi and his ambitions for statehood in a tight spot.
    — Mariah Espada, Time, 16 Apr. 2021
  • The question of statehood is not the biggest sticking point in this plan for Hamas.
    — Hussein Ibish, The Atlantic, 1 Oct. 2025
  • For Kurds, statehood has been more than a century in the making.
    — Tamara Qiblawi, CNN, 29 Oct. 2017
  • There have also been efforts, pushed by Democrats, to grant the district statehood.
    — Jesse Bedayn, Twin Cities, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Lieberman rejects the idea of statehood, as do most of the leading lights within the Likud.
    — Gregg Carlstrom, Newsweek, 15 Mar. 2018
  • Macron on Sunday doubled down on his call for statehood and said ending the conflict is no longer enough.
    — Caitlin McFall, FOXNews.com, 4 Aug. 2025
  • The shift to statehood could raise the prospect of other costs, such as designing and distributing the new state’s flag.
    — Sarah Westwood, Washington Examiner, 27 Apr. 2021
  • Trump teased statehood for Venezuela after the victory.
    — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 17 Mar. 2026
  • Arizona’s path to statehood was long and unique, literally.
    — Tiffany Acosta, AZCentral.com, 13 Feb. 2026
  • In June of this year, 97% of the people who voted, voted for statehood.
    — Nash Jenkins, Time, 13 Oct. 2017
  • Palestinians see both as integral to any future path to statehood.
    — Sam Metz, Arkansas Online, 26 Apr. 2026
  • The cathedral, a major tourist attraction, is linked to Czech statehood.
    — ABC News, 15 June 2026
  • The white star symbolizes hope and 1896, the year of Utah's statehood.
    — Olivia Munson, The Courier-Journal, 5 Jan. 2024
  • Nicholson said the conditions for statehood are both fairly rigid and a matter of debate.
    — Kim Hjelmgaard, USA Today, 21 Sep. 2025
  • The fight for climate change was the fight for Palestinian statehood was the fight to raise the minimum wage.
    — Alexander Nazaryan, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 21 Mar. 2025
  • The House passes a bill that could pave the way for Puerto Rican statehood.
    — Ellen McGirt, Fortune, 16 Dec. 2022
  • Governors served two-year terms from the advent of statehood through 1967.
    — Paul Messinger, The Arizona Republic, 15 Apr. 2022
  • Governors served two-year terms from the advent of statehood through 1967.
    — Shelby Slade, The Arizona Republic, 7 Aug. 2024
  • The statehood bill passed the House on a strict party-line vote last month, for only the second time in history.
    — Washington Post, 5 May 2021
  • Even the cactuses in the Valentine State, named for the day statehood was declared, would agree.
    — Shelby Slade, The Arizona Republic, 28 May 2024
  • The first session of court was held on the 55th anniversary of Oregon's statehood.
    — oregonlive, 27 Sep. 2019
  • This is not the stuff that makes the posters and protests and slogans in the District of Columbia’s fight for statehood.
    — Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2021
  • The state took over management in 1959 as a condition of statehood.
    — Rob Perez, ProPublica, 26 Nov. 2022
  • Even Israel’s far-right coalition rejects the plan’s faint gestures toward statehood.
    — Newsweek Contributors, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Dec. 2025

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