How to Use suffragette in a Sentence

suffragette

noun
  • There have been firebrands since the '20s and '30s and in the suffragette movement.
    Thom Duffy, Billboard, 23 Sep. 2019
  • Here is an overview of the waves of feminism in the US, from the suffragettes to #MeToo.
    Constance Grady, Vox, 1 June 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • The same painting was slashed by suffragette Mary Richardson in 1914 in protest.
    Mallory Moench, TIME, 11 Nov. 2023
  • In the early 1900s, the suffragettes wore white to attend marches.
    Amanda Mitchell, Marie Claire, 3 Jan. 2019
  • The early suffragist movement gave rise to the suffragettes, writes the BBC.
    Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 4 Apr. 2017
  • 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
  • The first, which has been viewed 1.6 million times, features Shirrako punching out a suffragette NPC who yells in a plaza about wanting the right to vote.
    Patricia Hernandez, The Verge, 8 Nov. 2018
  • Last year, all members agreed to wear white — a nod to the suffragettes — during Trump’s first address to a joint session of Congress.
    Amanda Arnold, The Cut, 10 Jan. 2018
  • At the time of the incident, British public buildings were on high alert for weapon-wielding suffragettes.
    Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 2 Feb. 2018
  • History is still not quite sure what to do with the militant suffragettes.
    Joanna Scutts, The New Republic, 20 Apr. 2018
  • The local school is named for Susan B. Anthony, the suffragette.
    Alexander Nazaryan, Newsweek, 8 Sep. 2017
  • Beside the float, women walked in long white dresses and suffragette sashes.
    Los Angeles Times, 1 Jan. 2020
  • But the more important one was that of her colleague Carolyn Maloney, dressed as a suffragette.
    Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review, 20 Sep. 2021
  • Is that a reference to the suffragettes, Agnes Garrett and Millicent Fawcett?
    Cameron K McEwan, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 May 2024
  • Since it was slashed in 1914 by a suffragette, it’s been a target for whoever’s irked by whatever.
    Brian T. Allen, National Review, 23 Dec. 2023
  • For her part, Dr. DiCenzo thinks suffragettes did help bring about the granting of partial voting rights in 1918.
    Lenora Chu, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • Democratic women, who wore modest white pantsuits (in honor of the suffragettes) at the State of the Union, in protest of President Trump's stance on women's rights.
    Jennifer Wright, Harper's BAZAAR, 3 Mar. 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Although Maudy is a fictional suffragette, Nona was a real-life advocate for the right of women to vote.
    Dallas News, 18 Feb. 2022
  • The suffragette movement and the military in the 1940s were largely segregated.
    Emily Listfield, Harper's BAZAAR, 13 Apr. 2023
  • At last year’s State of the Union, Democratic women wore all white to honor the suffragette movement and pledged to fight for issues affecting women.
    Lisa Gutierrez, kansascity, 11 Jan. 2018
  • 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
  • In the early 1900s, green reportedly stood for hope as the suffragette movement gained traction across the United Kingdom, the Telegraph reports.
    Maggie Maloney, Town & Country, 20 Feb. 2018
  • And her look was all-white, a possible nod to the female Democrats who chose to wear white to the President's joint session last year to reference the suffragette movement in support of women's rights.
    Erin Reimel, Glamour, 3 Feb. 2018

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