Example sentences for: statehood

How can you use “statehood” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • One of the latest words to enter the Abbreviation Cycle of Redundancy Race is Missouri . The “Show-Me” state gained statehood in 1821.

  • As Beijing continued to threaten force to halt Taiwan's pretensions to independent statehood, the South China Morning Post of Hong Kong accused Lee of pursuing a "dangerous course."

  • American critics oppose statehood on fiscal grounds.

  • The U.S. editorial spin: The Palestinians held off because the United States and the European Union asked them to do so and promised to support eventual statehood.

  • Newt Gingrich's disastrous championship of a Puerto Rican statehood bill is ridiculed: Almost no Republican voted for it in the House and Trent Lott has banned the measure from the Senate.


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