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
  • By then the suffrage movement was in full force in Britain.
    — Sarah Fielding, New York Times, 30 Oct. 2020
  • The Klan sprang up largely in response to Black suffrage.
    — Condé Nast, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2023
  • When did women get the right to vote?:A brief look at women's suffrage.
    — Caitlin McLean, USA TODAY, 14 Oct. 2022
  • The amendment has its roots in the aftermath of the suffrage movement.
    — Erin Blakemore, National Geographic, 25 Nov. 2019
  • Ferraro wore a white suit in a nod to women's suffrage.
    — Sarah Ewall-Wice and Caitlin Huey-Burns, CBS News, 23 Apr. 2020
  • The Kansas equal suffrage campaign launched in 1867 and Nichols was among the women leading the charge.
    — USA Today, 13 Aug. 2020
  • The history of suffrage looked much different in Texas, and across the South.
    — Shelby Stewart, Houston Chronicle, 18 Aug. 2020
  • Calls for genuine universal suffrage have long been at the heart of protests.
    — New York Times, 8 Aug. 2021
  • In the late 1800s, the debate over women’s suffrage was intertwined with polygamy in Utah.
    — Becky Jacobs, The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 July 2021
  • The site of the suffrage memorial has yet to be determined.
    — Jennifer Schuessler, New York Times, 20 Jan. 2025
  • Some are in favor of suffrage, while others are against.
    — USA Today, 18 Aug. 2020
  • Aptly called the War of the Roses, this was the final battle for women's suffrage.
    — Abbie Kozolchyk, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Mar. 2023
  • For more than 80 years, the grave of the first woman to vote under an equal suffrage law in the United States was marked with a misspelled name.
    — Becky Jacobs, The Salt Lake Tribune, 29 Sep. 2020
  • Bills to restore suffrage to 28 people were filed this year.
    — Arkansas Online, 23 Sep. 2021
  • There's a placard on nearby Eighth Street that mentions that this was a suffrage site.
    — Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 26 Aug. 2021
  • Yet Dowsett and others knew that suffrage was just the beginning.
    — Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Aug. 2020
  • 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
  • All in the hopes that men would vote in favor of women’s suffrage in the referendums.
    — New York Times, 28 Apr. 2020
  • In 1914, Nevada became the last western state to pass suffrage.
    — Christina Elizabeth Dando, The Conversation, 22 Oct. 2024
  • In English, the right to vote itself is sometimes referred to as suffrage.
    — Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 June 2018
  • Equal suffrage met even more aggressive attacks in the South.
    — Jon Grinspan, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Apr. 2021
  • Sri Lanka was the first country in Asia to get universal suffrage, way back in 1931.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 22 July 2022
  • Can Hong Kong see any universal suffrage in 20 or 30 year's time?
    — Christopher Carbone, Fox News, 1 July 2018
  • 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
  • The lawyer had gained a loyal following of fan girls while stumping for suffrage.
    — Andrea Simakis, cleveland.com, 30 June 2019
  • Purple, gold and white were the colors of the suffrage flags often flown during the campaign for passage of the 19th Amendment.
    — Sylvia Gurinsky, sun-sentinel.com, 22 Oct. 2020
  • This was a common argument against women’s suffrage before the 19th Amendment was passed.
    — Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 12 Feb. 2025
  • Wells started the Alpha Suffrage Club in January 1913, one of the first and most important black female suffrage organizations in the state and the city.
    — Chicago Tribune, 22 Feb. 2025

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