Example sentences for: suffrage

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

  • She becomes a woman's agitator--trade unions, suffrage, Democratic Party backrooms.

  • The Yankee's secularized Puritanism combines an enthusiasm for social reform--such as abolitionism, Prohibition, women's suffrage, civil rights, eugenics, and the anti-smoking crusade--with an often-priggish moralism and an apocalyptic horror of "corruption."

  • Book -- Other Powers: The Age of Suffrage, Spiritualism, and the Scandalous Victoria Woodhull , by Barbara Goldsmith (Knopf); Notorious Victoria: The Life of Victoria Woodhull , Uncensored , by Mary Gabriel (Algonquin).

  • Just because I think we should drastically cut government's suppression of our economic choices and liberties doesn't mean I'm against universal suffrage or desegregation.

  • After the emancipation of blacks, the movement for women’s suffrage gained strength and finally triumphed in 1920, and then in unclear succession came the contemporary efforts toward the equal treatment of homosexuals, “illegitimate” children, the handicapped, and even undocumented aliens.


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