How to Use suffragist in a Sentence

suffragist

noun

• Lopez dressed in suffragist white, wearing head-to-toe Chanel.
  — Nardine Saad, Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2021
• The idea that all women wanted the right to vote and supported the suffragist movement is not true.
  — USA Today, 20 Aug. 2020
• No sooner had the suffragists set off when crowds surged from the sidewalks and into the avenue, blocking the marchers’ way.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2018
• At the time, a rowdy suffragist movement was making waves in Britain, something that Paul wanted to be a part of.
  — Georgia Slater, PEOPLE.com, 14 Aug. 2020
• Burns would end up spending more time in jail than any other U.S. suffragist.
  — National Geographic, 13 Aug. 2020
• So began her notable life as a suffragist, a conductor, a nurse, and a spy.
  — Dawn Guest, star-telegram, 7 Feb. 2018
• People fought and died for equal rights and voting rights; suffragists endured hunger strikes and were beaten and jailed.
  — Lynn Yaeger, Vogue, 5 Nov. 2018
• The day before Woodrow Wilson’s election, thousands of suffragists marched down the street demanding the right to vote.
  — John Legend, Slate Magazine, 24 Sep. 2017
• A century ago, suffragists marched to win women’s right to vote.
  — Mary Jordan, Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2018
• Harris was in head-to-toe suffragist purple, in a look designed by Christopher John Rogers.
  — Jessica Roy, Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2021
• Now, a wave of white-wearing officials pay homage to suffragists.
  — Katherine J. Igoe, Marie Claire, 8 Feb. 2019
• All three women were suffragists in the 1800s; none of them lived to see women achieve enfranchisement.
  — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 12 May 2017
• Female doctor Mary Thomas was also a key Hoosier suffragist, Capps said.
  — Christine Fernando, The Indianapolis Star, 20 Aug. 2020
• The photos capture the cast—all 24 actors—and make clear that Suffs is interested in looking at the suffragist movement from across lines of age, race, and class.
  — Adam Rathe, Town & Country, 18 Mar. 2022
• The colors on the mask reflect those of the historical suffragist sashes.
  — Morgan Hines, USA TODAY, 26 Aug. 2020
• Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez joined female lawmakers in wearing all white to last night's State of the Union address in honor of the work of suffragists.
  — Kerry Pieri, Harper's BAZAAR, 6 Feb. 2019
• The two hosts will visit iconic sites of suffragist protests and take a tour with Congresswomen Terri Sewell.
  — Lily Jackson | [e-mail], al, 8 Mar. 2020
• In years past, its students took part in the abolitionist and suffragist movements.
  — Melanie Eversley, Fortune, 17 Sep. 2019
• In 1855, suffragist Lucy Stone famously refused to take her husband's last name, forging a brave new trail.
  — Cara Tabachnick, CBS News, 7 Sep. 2023
• That was a reference to Carrie Chapman Catt, a leading suffragist who had come to Nashville to campaign for the amendment.
  — David Crary, Star Tribune, 15 Aug. 2020
• The decision to wear white is an homage to the white outfits often worn by suffragists during their fight to get women’s votes recognized.
  — Cady Lang, Time, 5 Feb. 2020
• Since the 1740s, rabble-rousers — rebellious colonists, abolitionists and suffragists among them — have met in the building’s Great Hall.
  — New York Times, 6 June 2018
• The creative methods suffragists used to gain the vote will help your kids visualize what happened and stick in their memories.
  — Amy Schwabe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 June 2019
• The group, who became known as suffragists, held meetings, wrote letters, and signed petitions, demanding that women get the right to vote.
  — Natasha Bach, Fortune, 24 Apr. 2018
• Small wonder that the American suffragist claims for her vote the most miraculous powers.
  — Olivia Campbell, Smithsonian, 12 July 2018
• One will bear the name of the late Lucy Stone, a suffragist and abolitionist, and the late Sojourner Truth, an abolitionist and women’s rights activist.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 June 2022
• The effort had gone on for decades, and by 1916, suffragists had united behind the goal of a constitutional amendment rather than slugging it out state by state.
  — Joy Wallace Dickinson, orlandosentinel.com, 18 Aug. 2019
• The color white has come to symbolize the suffragist movement of the 19th and early 20th centuries, and the pantsuit is synonymous with her husband’s rival, Hillary Clinton.
  — Kate Andersen Brower, Glamour, 31 Jan. 2018
• Women’s suffragists took back the image of the cat in pro-suffrage advertisements, portraying themselves as hardscrabble fighters devoted to their cause.
  — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 27 July 2024
• These prejudices continued to shape public resentment toward female war workers—many of whom were also suffragists.
  — Elaine Weiss, Foreign Affairs, 12 Feb. 2019

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024