Sample Sentences forsuffrage (editor-reviewed)
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Although few of the women who pioneered women's suffrage lived long enough vote, the right was finally granted to women in 1920.suffrage = right to vote
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Susan B. Anthony fought for women's political rights, especially suffrage.suffrage = the right to vote
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As a rule, I believe in universal, free suffrage, but I believe that in the South we are confronted with peculiar conditions that justify the protection of the ballot in many of the states, for a while at least, either by an education test, a property test, or by both combined; but whatever tests are required, they should be made to apply with equal and exact justice to both races. (source)suffrage = right to vote
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The world's far too complicated a place now for universal suffrage and such like.† (source)
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It might at first have only a moral authority, but that authority could be substantial, for unlike those other entities for which some humans were not human enough to exercise suffrage, this new assembly would speak from the will of all the people, and in the face of that will, it was hoped, greater justice might be less easily denied.† (source)
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They say there is no fool like an old fool, but I say there is no fool like a young one; and I am astonished that anyone with a medical degree would allow himself to be imposed upon by such a blatant piece of charlatanism and preposterous tomfoolery as a "Neuro-hypnotic trance," which is second in imbecility only to Spiritism, Universal Suffrage, and similar drivel.† (source)
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Like many other former Abolitionists, she became interested in the movement for women's suffrage.† (source)
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So strangely compounded is the feeling of self-love, that the young soldier, while he knew the utter worthlessness of the suffrages of his savage umpires, forgot the sudden motives of the contest in a wish to excel.† (source)
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Mrs. Livingston remembers three young girls taking a five-year-old to a suffrage parade.† (source)
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The Grand Master had collected the suffrages, and now in a solemn tone demanded of Rebecca what she had to say against the sentence of condemnation, which he was about to pronounce.† (source)
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The women's suffrage movement was thus forced to raise money mostly from sympathetic men.† (source)
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A flag, floating from the summit of the temple, proclaimed to mankind that it was 'Sleary's Horse-riding' which claimed their suffrages.† (source)
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Not a man in town thought it mattered a hoot about women voting, and only two ladies went to the first women's suffrage meeting Miss Love set up.† (source)
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The acceptance of, and continuance hitherto in, the office to which your suffrages have twice called me have been a uniform sacrifice of inclination to the opinion of duty and to a deference for what appeared to be your desire.† (source)
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He listens as Lincoln talks of extending suffrage to literate blacks and those who fought for the Union.† (source)
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After all the pentagonal, hexagonal, and whimsical faces, which had succeeded each other at that hole without realizing the ideal of the grotesque which their imaginations, excited by the orgy, had constructed, nothing less was needed to win their suffrages than the sublime grimace which had just dazzled the assembly.† (source)
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