Example Sentences

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A Republican from Montana, Rankin pushed for the 19th Amendment that enfranchised women across the country four years later.

From Washington Post • Mar. 5, 2023

But the Electoral Commission says only one in five newly enfranchised 16 and 17-year-olds registered to vote ahead of May's local elections.

From BBC • Oct. 10, 2022

The scripts create an engaging arc through which Max discovers where she belongs, but she's never a fully enfranchised participant in their emotional highs and lows.

From Salon • Aug. 12, 2022

Their efforts to provide Black people with greater legal rights earned them the support of African Americans in both the South, where they were newly enfranchised, and the Northeast.

From Textbooks • Jul. 28, 2021

The Nineteenth Amendment enfranchised women, but some states quickly moved to deny nonwhite women—and men—the right to vote.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling