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
• Overseas most Sikhs view the protests through the prism of livelihood, not statehood.
  — Sadanand Dhume, WSJ, 10 Dec. 2020
• 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
• Whether statehood might follow seems a long shot at best.
  — New York Times, 10 Jan. 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
• 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
• The results were neck and neck, with statehood coming out slightly ahead.
  — Alicia Kennedy, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Nov. 2020
• 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
• The New Progressive Party’s grip on the statehood cause loosened in 2020.
  — Rashid Carlos Jamil Marcano Rivera, The Conversation, 14 Dec. 2020
• This is part of why the movement for D.C. statehood, which has been decades in the making, is more important than ever.
  — Natalie Gontcharova, refinery29.com, 7 Jan. 2021
• Yet Saudi Arabia is conditioning such an agreement on an end to the war in Gaza and steps toward Palestinian statehood.
  — Fatima Abdulkarim, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Nov. 2024
• Netanyahu's office did not comment when asked about the Saudi position on Palestinian statehood.
  — Samia Nakhoul and Pesha Magid, USA TODAY, 29 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Jan 2025