How to Use suffrage in a Sentence

suffrage

noun
  • But like the path to suffrage, there were still a few twists to come.
    — Madison Feller, ELLE, 27 May 2022
  • His death was one of many along the road toward suffrage rights.
    — Tamika D. Mallory, Essence, 13 May 2021
  • But the idea of vampire suffrage raises all sorts of questions for me.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 12 Sep. 2024
  • Calls for genuine universal suffrage have long been at the heart of protests.
    — New York Times, 8 Aug. 2021
  • For one thing, Woolley is slow coming around on suffrage.
    — Manuel Mendoza, Dallas Morning News, 19 Feb. 2026
  • The lawyer had gained a loyal following of fan girls while stumping for suffrage.
    — Andrea Simakis, cleveland.com, 30 June 2019
  • The amendment has its roots in the aftermath of the suffrage movement.
    — Erin Blakemore, National Geographic, 25 Nov. 2019
  • Yet Dowsett and others knew that suffrage was just the beginning.
    — Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Aug. 2020
  • So, how did purple and gold, along with white, become the women’s suffrage colors?
    — Joy Wallace Dickinson, orlandosentinel.com, 23 Aug. 2020
  • Equal suffrage met even more aggressive attacks in the South.
    — Jon Grinspan, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Apr. 2021
  • All in the hopes that men would vote in favor of women’s suffrage in the referendums.
    — New York Times, 28 Apr. 2020
  • That's the movement for abolition and suffrage and civil rights.
    — Dana Taylor, USA Today, 1 June 2026
  • Black suffrage was, at that time, an entirely partisan cause.
    — Adam Serwer, The Atlantic, 19 May 2026
  • Marcus points out that the leaders of the women’s suffrage movement didn’t always see eye to eye.
    — Jed Gottlieb, Boston Herald, 9 Mar. 2026
  • In English, the right to vote itself is sometimes referred to as suffrage.
    — Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 June 2018
  • There's a placard on nearby Eighth Street that mentions that this was a suffrage site.
    — Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 26 Aug. 2021
  • The understanding that suffrage could be sold to the public had been missing from the movement.
    — Helaine Olen, The Atlantic, 12 Dec. 2017
  • One side wanted to get the vote at the same time as blacks; others thought women's suffrage was inevitable and censed the time wasn't right for it.
    — Terry Demio, Cincinnati.com, 3 Feb. 2020
  • Students have often stood on the front lines, be it abolition, women’s suffrage or civil rights.
    — Karl W. Bickel, Baltimore Sun, 24 Feb. 2026
  • And a bouquet of yellow roses — a symbol of the women’s suffrage movement — adorned the bar.
    — Vivian Jones, Nashville Tennessean, 7 Oct. 2025
  • The history of suffrage looked much different in Texas, and across the South.
    — Shelby Stewart, Houston Chronicle, 18 Aug. 2020
  • For example, the suffrage movement and the teaching of it focuses on white women and their right to vote.
    — Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Can Hong Kong see any universal suffrage in 20 or 30 year's time?
    — Christopher Carbone, Fox News, 1 July 2018
  • Stanton opposed it, and urged the group to hold out for a universal-suffrage law, though no such amendment was forthcoming.
    — Moira Donegan, New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2026
  • The first resolution calling for women’s suffrage was passed.
    — Moira Donegan, New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Aptly called the War of the Roses, this was the final battle for women's suffrage.
    — Abbie Kozolchyk, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Mar. 2023
  • In 1914, Nevada became the last western state to pass suffrage.
    — Christina Elizabeth Dando, The Conversation, 22 Oct. 2024
  • The one that drew the initial complaint, referencing women’s suffrage, was not set for removal.
    — Harrison Jacobs, ARTnews.com, 5 June 2026
  • In ‘She Votes,’ 100 women artists retell the suffrage movement story.
    — Taylor Kate Brown, SFChronicle.com, 12 Aug. 2020
  • Tubman also served as a spy for the Union during the Civil War and pushed for women’s suffrage.
    — Pamela Wood, baltimoresun.com, 11 June 2019

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