How to Use Mormon in a Sentence
Mormon
noun-
Mesa is the state’s third-largest city and has a large Mormon population.
— Annabella Rosciglione, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 19 Oct. 2024 -
From the Atlantic, a story on the Jewish quarterback at a Mormon college.
— Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2024 -
My mom and dad are still alive; all of them are Mormon.
— Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 2 July 2024 -
Gad, who hasn’t been on Broadway since Book of Mormon, then brought the idea to Rannells.
— Vulture, 22 June 2023 -
For decades, to be Mormon was to be pursued by an angry mob; its founder, Joseph Smith, was shot dead by one.
— Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 14 Dec. 2023 -
Smith used them to translate the Book of Mormon into English.
— Brian T. Allen, National Review, 20 Jan. 2024 -
All my best friends growing up were Mormon (and) are still Mormon.
— Kimi Robinson, USA TODAY, 9 July 2024 -
The Book of Mormon, will star in Spaceballs 2, per Variety.
— Maddie Garfinkle, Peoplemag, 8 July 2024 -
Tens of thousands of Mormon cricket eggs buried about an inch deep in the soil began to hatch in late May and early June.
— Rio Yamat, Fortune, 20 June 2023 -
About half of Utah’s 3.4 million residents belong to the faith known widely as the Mormon church.
— Hannah Schoenbaum, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2024 -
The Mormon group was headed to a wedding, and authorities said some of the victims were burned alive.
— CBS News, 7 Sep. 2023 -
Rannells, known for his starring role in The Book of Mormon and recently in Gutenberg!
— Caitlin Huston, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Mar. 2024 -
His older son is serving a mission for the Mormon church, and his younger daughter is 13 and lives with her mother.
— Time, 20 Sep. 2023 -
Sometimes, when things got out of hand at the Taco Bell, employees called leaders from the Mormon Church instead of the police.
— Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 21 June 2024 -
But there’s this whole Mormon story that’s wild and very American.
— June Thomas, New York Times, 16 June 2023 -
Lester, the son of a respectable businessman from Galesburg, Ill., was active in the Mormon church and a Sunday school teacher.
— Mara Bovsun, New York Daily News, 16 June 2024 -
Utah was not the right place for two other men who came here as children with Mormon wagon companies.
— The Salt Lake Tribune, 29 July 2023 -
Nor did the Union Pacific pay the Mormon workers who completed it.
— Barry M. Mitnick / Made By History, TIME, 11 Sep. 2024 -
The concept grew out of Utah, which has birthed a slew of dirty soda chains, bolstered by its large Mormon Church population.
— Cheryl V. Jackson, The Courier-Journal, 16 Sep. 2024 -
Silver was raised Mormon and said many of his neighbors in North Ogden, Utah, practice the religion.
— Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 16 June 2023 -
Susan, who had been raised Mormon, started wearing a head scarf, and Burdick observed the five daily prayers.
— Heidi Blake, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2024 -
At age 19, Smith had embarked on his Mormon mission to Cochabamba, Bolivia.
— Michal Lev-Ram, Fortune, 22 Aug. 2023 -
What were some of your biggest personal takeaways from playing a devout Mormon like Jeb this time around?
— Max Gao, Harper's BAZAAR, 27 Apr. 2022 -
The teachings of the Mormon church complicated how Meri handled her feelings of jealousy.
— Emily Strohm, Peoplemag, 18 Aug. 2023 -
Ballard, who is Mormon, bizarrely denied that the church had issued the statement while speaking to supporters in Boston.
— Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 18 Sep. 2023 -
His ancestry goes as far back as the early Mormon pioneers who settled in Mesa.
— Maritza Dominguez, The Arizona Republic, 8 July 2024 -
That led to extensive Reddit threads speculating about who the Mormon swingers were.
— Olivia B. Waxman, TIME, 6 Sep. 2024 -
Following a two-year Mormon mission to the Philippines, Williamson, now a junior, was training with his college teammates and getting back in shape.
— David W. Chen, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2022 -
The Mormon church has been undergoing the biggest building boom in its history.
— Drake Bentley, Journal Sentinel, 8 Oct. 2024 -
Her mother, who was Mormon, had increasingly come to believe the world was ending and the rapture approaching.
— Sierra Crane Murdoch, Harper's Magazine, 3 May 2023
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