How to Use suffragette in a Sentence

suffragette

noun
  • Thanks for telling me that my white halter top still counted as a tribute to the suffragettes.
    — Sarah Solomon, The New Yorker, 12 June 2019
  • To our good fortune, Guinness did play all eight, even the suffragette.
    — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2026
  • If that's the case, the kid might wonder, then what was the point of the civil rights and suffragette movements?
    — Theunis Bates, theweek, 5 Mar. 2024
  • History is still not quite sure what to do with the militant suffragettes.
    — Joanna Scutts, The New Republic, 20 Apr. 2018
  • When suffragettes were arrested by police, many also went on hunger strike.
    — Elfy Scott, refinery29.com, 4 Mar. 2024
  • Beside the float, women walked in long white dresses and suffragette sashes.
    — Los Angeles Times, 1 Jan. 2020
  • There have been firebrands since the '20s and '30s and in the suffragette movement.
    — Thom Duffy, Billboard, 23 Sep. 2019
  • In the early 1900s, the suffragettes wore white to attend marches.
    — Amanda Mitchell, Marie Claire, 3 Jan. 2019
  • At the time of the incident, British public buildings were on high alert for weapon-wielding suffragettes.
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 2 Feb. 2018
  • It will now be added to the museum’s protest collection, which includes items dating back to the suffragette movement.
    — Rob Crilly, Washington Examiner, 18 Jan. 2021
  • The same painting was slashed by suffragette Mary Richardson in 1914 in protest.
    — Mallory Moench, TIME, 11 Nov. 2023
  • But the more important one was that of her colleague Carolyn Maloney, dressed as a suffragette.
    — Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review, 20 Sep. 2021
  • The work was inspired by the suffragette movement and the 100th anniversary of the women’s right to vote.
    — Melissa Young, Dallas News, 15 Apr. 2020
  • But anyone there was invited to stand on an antique soap box, just like the suffragettes did a century ago, and speak to the crowd for two minutes.
    — Sal Pizarro, The Mercury News, 26 Aug. 2019
  • In such cards, suffragettes were usually depicted as ugly spinsters or abusive, lazy wives.
    — Melissa Chan, Fortune, 14 Feb. 2026
  • While the suffragettes are the most widely known, each had distinctive approaches to trying to secure the vote for women.
    — Elfy Scott, refinery29.com, 26 Feb. 2024
  • Here is an overview of the waves of feminism in the US, from the suffragettes to #MeToo.
    — Constance Grady, Vox, 1 June 2018
  • The early suffragist movement gave rise to the suffragettes, writes the BBC.
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 4 Apr. 2017
  • On election night, Johnson wore suffragette white as a nod to the women’s suffrage movement more than a century ago.
    — Pj Green, Kansas City Star, 4 Jan. 2025
  • Shaina Taub’s musical chronicles the rise of the suffragette movement to gain voting rights for women.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 1 Apr. 2025
  • Important stories about the origins of the suffragette and #MeToo movements.
    — Seija Rankin, HollywoodReporter, 16 Apr. 2026
  • There are scenes involving suffragettes and police pouring beer out of barrels in front of a bar thanks to Prohibition.
    — Parents, 1 July 2026
  • Although Maudy is a fictional suffragette, Nona was a real-life advocate for the right of women to vote.
    — Dallas News, 18 Feb. 2022
  • For her own sartorial statement, Ocasio-Cortez donned an all-white suit, a nod to the suffragettes who first fought for women's right to vote.
    — Lauren Alexis Fisher, Harper's BAZAAR, 4 Jan. 2019
  • Years later narratives about colonization or slavery or the crazy suffragettes always centre on the light and the justice these people fought for.
    — Sara Stridsberg september 15, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Is that a reference to the suffragettes, Agnes Garrett and Millicent Fawcett?
    — Cameron K McEwan, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 May 2024
  • Other suffragettes segregated their marches and railed against the 15th Amendment on their way to ensuring white women got the right to vote.
    — Ashlee Marie Preston, Teen Vogue, 19 Mar. 2018
  • This question was asked in a circular sent by equal-pay suffragettes to female teachers in New York’s public schools in 1905.
    — The Economist, 7 Oct. 2017
  • Several suffragette leaders will be added to the $10 bill and former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt will appear on the $5 bill.
    — Valentina Zarya, Fortune, 18 July 2017
  • Set in Edwardian London with the dome of St Paul's visible in the background, chimney sweeps and suffragettes fill the stage.
    — Irenie Forshaw, theweek, 18 Dec. 2024

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