How to Use feminist in a Sentence

feminist

1 of 2 noun
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  • As an avid art lover and a feminist, I was taken aback, and said as much to the others.
    — Nicholas Ivor Martin and Jacobina Martin, oregonlive, 19 Apr. 2023
  • The Sisterhood was a group of these and other Black feminists who met once a month in the late ’70s.
    — Boris Kachka, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2023
  • Joyce is the textbook feminist, but has no street smarts.
    — Selome Hailu, Variety, 14 Apr. 2022
  • And where did these feminists make so many of their historic stands?
    — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2023
  • More:The men behind the new 'Magic Mike' movie aim for feminist and funny.
    — Kimi Robinson, The Arizona Republic, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Inside, the spaces looked like a young feminist’s dream come true.
    — Paige McGlauflin, Fortune, 7 Oct. 2022
  • Miss Manners fails to see how this attacks you as a feminist.
    — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 9 Jan. 2024
  • The inscription reads Dan Heller, which still tickles the feminist in her.
    — Lacey Rose, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Whether or not to call the film feminist is not the only disagreement the film’s creative team had with Mattel.
    — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 June 2023
  • Some feminists complained that the character was too ditsy and man-crazy and that her skirts were too short.
    — Maureen Dowd, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2024
  • And my father was the ultimate father and feminist and just huge source of support.
    — Annie O’Sullivan, Good Housekeeping, 10 Oct. 2022
  • Though his choice in scripts can sometimes be suspect, Scott may be the movies’ most consistent stealth feminist.
    — Joshua Rothkopf, Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2023
  • Lesbian feminists adopted the labrys axe as a symbol during the 1970s.
    — Claire Gillespie, Health, 13 Dec. 2023
  • Through song, Black feminists have been able to share their messages and stories not just with their peers but with society at large.
    — Candice Jalili, Rolling Stone, 3 Apr. 2023
  • The Duchess is a mother, feminist and champion of human rights.
    — Stephanie Petit, Peoplemag, 30 Nov. 2022
  • Ball of fire, feminist, and all-around queen, Cosentino doesn’t take prisoners.
    — Kaely Monahan, The Arizona Republic, 7 Mar. 2023
  • There’s also a lot of feminist and Black empowerment themes in your work.
    — Okla Jones, Essence, 2 Sep. 2023
  • The whole thing can read, at times, as a game of corporate-feminist Mad Libs made corporeal.
    — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 2 June 2021
  • The first volume in the feminist’s Love Song to the Nation trilogy considers compassion as a form of love.
    — Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2022
  • In the wake of the 2016 election, people accused feminists of seeing Gilead everywhere—you’re alarmist!
    — Juliana Ukiomogbe, ELLE, 22 Aug. 2023
  • The difference in tenor between Aurat March and the protests of Pakistan’s feminists in the nineteen-eighties is striking.
    — Mira Sethi, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2023
  • This is not to idealize Mina herself, nor to claim her as a modern feminist.
    — Katherine Hobbs, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Mar. 2023
  • The program is a long-time brewing for Lauper, who’s been vocal about her identity as a feminist.
    — Amina Niasse, Billboard, 11 Oct. 2022
  • The episode dismayed some feminists, who said her tears had reinforced stereotypes and set back the cause of women seeking office.
    — Katharine Q. Seelye, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2023
  • The quintessentially faithful Latter-day Saint feminist just had to write and publish.
    — Peggy Fletcher Stack, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 Nov. 2022
  • Maybe the movie would be an idiosyncratic, subversive, even feminist take on the doll, not just a commercial for Mattel.
    — Time, 27 June 2023
  • Their tense day-to-day life on the farm is turned upside down when Laura’s mother, Solange (Deneuve), an eccentric French feminist, shows up unannounced.
    — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 30 Oct. 2023
  • The work didn’t sit well with feminists, who accused Mr. Brakhage of objectifying his wife.
    — Penelope Green, New York Times, 7 Dec. 2023
  • What if a feminist’s vaginal allusions were ditched for neon signage?
    — Martha Schwendener, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2024
  • Then, other organizers, Black feminists who have shown up for me.
    — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Mar. 2024
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feminist

2 of 2 adjective
  • The story is set against the feminist movement of the 1970s.
    — Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Earhart was one of the greatest pilots of her time, and broke the glass ceiling in the feminist movement.
    — Chris Eberhart, Fox News, 30 Jan. 2024
  • In a sense, the feminist movement had to gear up and that meant ditching girliness.
    — Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Whether this was or was not a feminist series is a question that still prompts think pieces.
    — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2023
  • The surreal nugget of feminist pop-punk went to number one on the radio charts in Colombia.
    — Beverly Bryan, SPIN, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Lost in the decades since has been her bravery in choosing to stake it all on a film that was unabashedly feminist and Jewish.
    — Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 7 Nov. 2023
  • Even in this feminist space, there is a detriment to excluding men.
    — As Told To Bridgette Bartlett Royall, Essence, 29 Aug. 2023
  • Helped by her best friend Pauline, a jobless lawyer, she is acquitted on the grounds of self-defense and becomes a star, as well as a feminist icon.
    — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 14 Jan. 2023
  • Among them are: The #MeToo movement giving rise to feminist values in young women.
    — Luba Kassova, Fortune, 8 Mar. 2024
  • The Oscar contender for Austria is a fictional account of one year in the life of the 19th century monarch told through a feminist lens.
    — Jessica Wang, EW.com, 15 Jan. 2023
  • He was set to preside over the César Awards, France’s equivalent of the Oscars, but was dropped in early 2017 under pressure from feminist groups.
    — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Mar. 2024
  • There is also a strong feminist movement in El Salvador.
    — Christopher Soto, Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2023
  • The line quickly became a feminist slogan and is used more broadly today.
    — Hadley Heath Manning, National Review, 31 Mar. 2024
  • But that would have been a depressing note to end on, and done nothing for the image the film seeks to build up for Hite as a feminist heroine, practically martyred for telling the truth.
    — Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Jan. 2023
  • In the decade-plus since Jennifer’s Body premiered, this Diablo Cody film has become a feminist cult classic.
    — Claudia Guthrie, ELLE, 29 Aug. 2023
  • While women in America still have a long way to go in our fight for true equality, our nation is no stranger to feminist movements.
    — Candice Jalili, Rolling Stone, 3 Apr. 2023
  • The fact that Barbie, such a sharp, funny, feminist success, was so comprehensively shut out, felt like a shift in mood.
    — Sarah Crompton, Vogue, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Since its release, the film has been heralded for its feminist message and its creative world-building.
    — Carlos De Loera, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2023
  • Even at a gathering of feminist thinkers, this was not a popular statement.
    — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2023
  • As Spain hurtles towards democracy, Bea joins the feminist cause and, to her surprise, falls in love with another girl.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 16 May 2023
  • Janice Allred, a feminist theologian, was cut off in 1995.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 Sep. 2023
  • Her books sold more than half a million copies in the first half of this year, ranging from broad discussions of misogyny to feminist approaches to elder care.
    — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2023
  • Also, boys and men who may have never spent any time thinking about feminist theory.
    — Zack Sharf, Variety, 2 Jan. 2024
  • The footage—which has been screened by the family multiple times over the years, and as part of a feminist art installation designed by Eleanor—was the first of many instances in which Sofia would be seen through her father’s lens.
    — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2024
  • The author’s website describes Hood Feminism as a book that explains how the feminist movement failed many women.
    — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 15 Sep. 2023
  • But his inline skates, decorated with feminist and gay pride stickers, called his name again 16 years later.
    — Mary Claire Molloy, Washington Post, 8 Aug. 2023
  • And this glorious feminist spectacle that is the Barbie movie.
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 1 Aug. 2023
  • The influencer saved her most controversial take for last: Daycare is feminist garbage too.
    — Laura Jedeed, The New Republic, 13 June 2023
  • And as with the Enola Holmes movies, Brown is the best part of this feminist spin on what’s usually a boys’ adventure narrative involving slashing swords and slaying beasts.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Her apartment has hosted countless young activists and world dignitaries over the years, besides serving as an instrumental gathering space for some of the earliest meetings of Ms. magazine, the feminist publication Steinem cofounded in 1971.
    — Stephanie Sporn, Vogue, 27 Mar. 2024

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