How to Use statehood in a Sentence

statehood

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  • The white star symbolizes hope and 1896, the year of Utah's statehood.
    — Olivia Munson, The Courier-Journal, 5 Jan. 2024
  • The House passes a bill that could pave the way for Puerto Rican statehood.
    — Ellen McGirt, Fortune, 16 Dec. 2022
  • Governors served two-year terms from the advent of statehood through 1967.
    — Paul Messinger, The Arizona Republic, 15 Apr. 2022
  • State flag The flag also shows the coat of arms; the state's name appears above it and the year of Wisconsin's statehood, 1848, appears below.
    — Amy Schwabe, Journal Sentinel, 3 Apr. 2023
  • The case in The Hague does not address any of those grievances or bring Palestinians any closer to statehood.
    — Patrick Kingsley, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2024
  • The state took over management in 1959 as a condition of statehood.
    — Rob Perez, ProPublica, 26 Nov. 2022
  • Serbs cherish the area as central both to their religion and statehood.
    — Dusan Stojanovic, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Sep. 2023
  • If Puerto Rico chooses statehood, the U.S. will begin the process of admitting it as the nation's 51st state, the draft says.
    — Lilia Luciano and Cristina Corujo, CBS News, 23 May 2022
  • The charter for statehood was approved by the citizens of Arizona and by Congress.
    — Paul Messinger, The Arizona Republic, 15 Apr. 2022
  • And the Palestinian dream of statehood remains as distant as ever.
    — New York Times, 1 Apr. 2022
  • Gantz has remained vague about his view of Palestinian statehood.
    — Tia Goldenberg, arkansasonline.com, 4 Mar. 2024
  • This means that Democrats can’t use it to, say, pass any of their voting-rights legislation or grant statehood to the District of Columbia.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 9 Aug. 2022
  • The practice of stocking fish started years before Utah gained statehood, according to DWR officials, when the first fish were released in the state in 1871.
    — Jessica Miller, The Salt Lake Tribune, 26 July 2022
  • Students also learn about the Home Rule movement and discuss how a lack of statehood affects residents.
    — Lauren Lumpkin, Washington Post, 12 Feb. 2023
  • As our nation continues to grow and evolve, so might also the Stars and Stripes to include an additional 51 for D.C.’s statehood.
    — Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence, 17 June 2022
  • At least one House bill, introduced last year, would grant Puerto Rico statehood.
    — Bill Keveney, USA TODAY, 23 Sep. 2022
  • Last year in the upper Green River Valley, Wyoming cut off ranchers whose rights preceded statehood in 1890.
    — Brandon Loomis, AZCentral.com, 20 Nov. 2022
  • In 1882 the Justices, citing its act of statehood, let Colorado prosecute a white man who killed another white man in the Ute reservation.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 28 Apr. 2022
  • Hawaiian statehood — as well as Alaska’s — was delayed throughout the 1950s by opposition from members of the U.S. House.
    — James Brooks, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Dec. 2022
  • Ignoring the rights of the Palestinians and their desire for statehood is precisely what produced the region’s present sorry state.
    — Shivshankar Menon, Foreign Affairs, 16 Nov. 2023
  • Some even spoke of the incursion as a conspiracy, a guarantee that Israel would now turn so far to the right that the Palestinians would never get statehood.
    — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2023
  • This pre-Roe law was first created in 1901 before Arizona statehood and was updated last year.
    — Alta Spells and Natasha Chen, CNN, 24 June 2022
  • And the state famously refused to rescind the right to vote for women when the federal government conditioned statehood on such a measure in 1889.
    — AZCentral.com, 23 Aug. 2022
  • This means not only a total repudiation of Palestinian statehood, but also a pledge to rip up what’s left of the Oslo Accords.
    — Hussein Ibish, The Atlantic, 26 Feb. 2024
  • Although voters approved the measure, the likelihood of a new state forming east of Los Angeles — the first since Hawaii was granted statehood in 1959 — is an extreme long shot.
    — al, 20 Dec. 2022
  • Republican fears that statehood could mean the election of more Democratic lawmakers could be enough to keep broad GOP support at bay.
    — Byrick Klein, Averi Harper, ABC News, 16 Dec. 2022
  • The law, which predated Arizona's statehood and had been barred from being enforced for years, was blocked on the grounds that subsequent Arizona laws do allow for the procedure.
    — Jeva Lange, The Week, 31 Dec. 2022
  • For decades prior to Utah statehood, Latter-day Saint pioneers routinely walked, floated and fished in streams across private lands.
    — Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 Jan. 2023
  • Hawaii's’s statehood followed a long history of coups, annexation and more.
    — Jacob Livesay, USA TODAY, 28 Mar. 2023
  • For the guardian of Islam’s holy places, making peace with Israel amid a war with Palestinians is untenable without a deal that includes statehood for their fellow-Arabs.
    — Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2024

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