Example Sentences

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One reason, surely, is that Stanton sought to take suffragism to a place it did not want to go.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

The camps’ explicit mission was to train a new generation of activists, another step on the ladder that they had climbed, through trade unionism, farmers’ unions, suffragism and feminism, to antiwar activism.

From New York Times • Jan. 4, 2017

One day she heard Emmeline Pankhurst speak on suffragism.

From Time Magazine Archive

Miss Jenkins had reached the certain—or uncertain—age when women take to militant suffragism.

From The Making of a Soul by Rhodes, Kathlyn

There are many modern things which threaten it much more than suffragism; notably the increase of self-supporting women, even in the most severe or the most squalid employments.

From What's Wrong with the World by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)