How to Use statehood in a Sentence

statehood

noun

• The white star symbolizes hope and 1896, the year of Utah's statehood.
  — Olivia Munson, The Courier-Journal, 5 Jan. 2024
• This is the second time a bill that would give D.C. statehood passed the House, the first being in 2020.
  — Sarah Elbeshbishi, USA TODAY, 28 June 2021
• But the modern fight for statehood is led by Democrats.
  — Grace Segers, CBS News, 22 Apr. 2021
• 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 House passes a bill that could pave the way for Puerto Rican statehood.
  — Ellen McGirt, Fortune, 16 Dec. 2022
• For the Palestinians, there is the promise of statehood.
  — Dennis Ross, Foreign Affairs, 7 Aug. 2024
• Even the cactuses in the Valentine State, named for the day statehood was declared, would agree.
  — Shelby Slade, The Arizona Republic, 28 May 2024
• This column, however, is not about the pros and cons of D.C. statehood.
  — Arkansas Online, 28 Mar. 2021
• Were there actual public easements to streambeds on the books at the time of statehood?
  — Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 17 Aug. 2021
• Into America heads to D.C. to learn about the push for statehood.
  — NBC News, 25 June 2021
• 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
• Last year marked the first time a D.C. statehood bill cleared either chamber of Congress.
  — John Fritze, USA TODAY, 4 Oct. 2021
• Governors served two-year terms from the advent of statehood through 1967.
  — Paul Messinger, The Arizona Republic, 15 Apr. 2022
• Three years on, the Southeast Asian nation is teetering on the brink of failed statehood.
  — Hannah Beech, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2024
• That could put Pierluisi and his ambitions for statehood in a tight spot.
  — Mariah Espada, Time, 16 Apr. 2021
• 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
• State flag The flag also shows the coat of arms; the state's name appears above it and the year of Wisconsin's statehood, 1848, appears below.
  — Amy Schwabe, Journal Sentinel, 3 Apr. 2023
• The case in The Hague does not address any of those grievances or bring Palestinians any closer to statehood.
  — Patrick Kingsley, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2024
• The fact is, statehood has long been partisan in nature.
  — Editorial Board, Star Tribune, 1 June 2021
• Governors served two-year terms from the advent of statehood through 1967.
  — Shelby Slade, The Arizona Republic, 7 Aug. 2024
• The state took over management in 1959 as a condition of statehood.
  — Rob Perez, ProPublica, 26 Nov. 2022
• The bill granting statehood to the District of Columbia also faces no chance in the Senate.
  — Alan Fram, ajc, 23 Apr. 2021
• The House passed the statehood bill for the first time last year, also without any Republican votes.
  — Meagan Flynn, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Apr. 2021
• Serbs cherish the area as central both to their religion and statehood.
  — Dusan Stojanovic, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Sep. 2023
• Arizona becomes a state Arizona had tried to reach statehood for years.
  — Shelby Slade, The Arizona Republic, 2 Oct. 2024
• And then each of those hundred sub-districts should apply for statehood.
  — Charles Kesler, National Review, 20 June 2024
• Witness Trees have been growing in the same spot since before Arizona achieved statehood in 1912.
  — Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 10 May 2024
• If Puerto Rico chooses statehood, the U.S. will begin the process of admitting it as the nation's 51st state, the draft says.
  — Lilia Luciano and Cristina Corujo, CBS News, 23 May 2022
• Some voters on Monday said that statehood is the only thing that will help pull Puerto Rico out of its slump.
  — Danica Coto, Chicago Tribune, 5 Nov. 2024
• The state was reliably Democratic in its early statehood years and flipped Republican in the early 1950s.
  — The Arizona Republic, 31 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 10 Dec 2024