How to Use acolyte in a Sentence

acolyte

noun

• Offshoots rose and fell in the next decades as acolytes worked to keep the book in print.
  — Sam Kestenbaum, New York Times, 7 June 2018
• In Harmon's rants, his fans—equal parts acolyte and troll—are always 15.
  — Sean O'Neal, GQ, 30 May 2018
• Of course, not every Musk fan is as fervent an acolyte as Ocean and Gomez.
  — Bijan Stephen, The Verge, 26 June 2018
• But the roar of social media builds awareness and attracts new potential acolytes.
  — Elizabeth Raiss, refinery29.com, 14 June 2018
• And because this is Depp, an acolyte of Hunter S. Thompson, there was some drug talk, too.
  — Jayme Deerwester, USA TODAY, 21 June 2018
• Luckily the Eagles catalog has enough acolytes that there won't be a shortage of players to keep the fire alive.
  — Craig Hlavaty, Houston Chronicle, 16 June 2018
• Max Marin in Philadelphia Weekly quoted the alarm of some of Krasner’s acolytes.
  — Stu Bykofsky, Philly.com, 3 July 2018
• At length, after being pitched on it by an acolyte (who becomes his proxy in managing the conspiracy day-to-day), Thiel resolves on action.
  — Stephen Phillips, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 June 2018
• Conservative former colleagues of Wilkie see it otherwise, viewing Wilkie as one of Helms's smartest acolytes.
  — Paul Sonne and Lisa Rein, miamiherald, 26 June 2018
• For acolytes of the craze, such high-brow bottles are worth the hefty price.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 3 Dec. 2019
• But Zeldin, who served in the military, wasn't a Trump acolyte from the get-go.
  — Allan Smith, NBC News, 11 Nov. 2019
• Nahi, Naru's acolyte at the time, had eyes swollen and rimmed red from weeping.
  — Seija Rankin, EW.com, 21 Sep. 2021
• This time, though, Roth’s allies and acolytes would need to put on the show all by themselves.
  — Hannah Gold, Harper's Magazine, 3 Nov. 2023
• Good news for Swift style acolytes: Her top is still available in most sizes.
  — Glamour, 25 May 2019
• But Brooks has hardly been the only Trump acolyte to lately chafe at the leash.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 25 Mar. 2022
• Is there no level to which Trump and his acolytes will not stoop in his defense?
  — Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, 1 Nov. 2019
• If this was The End, Pacquiao and his team and acolytes would take a relaxed approach.
  — Greg Bishop, SI.com, 21 July 2019
• Ham could be the next Budenzholer acolyte to get to run his own show.
  — Christian Clark, NOLA.com, 4 Sep. 2020
• And when the acolyte comes to appreciate the same art as the instructor?
  — Julie Belcove, Robb Report, 16 May 2021
• The singer is among a growing list of celebrity Jean Paul Gaultier acolytes.
  — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 16 Oct. 2023
• But little had changed by the time Bradford, an acolyte of Brown’s, became chief in 1996.
  — Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2020
• What can be done to Trump-proof the Presidency against him or an acolyte?
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 29 Dec. 2020
• The film made $38 million worldwide but has become part of the canon of staples for Brooks acolytes.
  — Brian Welk, IndieWire, 18 June 2024
• There’s no worse fate than being purchased by the gun lobby and its acolytes.
  — cleveland, 7 Oct. 2019
• My mother, a fervent acolyte of the new-agey health and fitness uprising of the 1970s, was not much of a cook.
  — Amy Drew Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 30 Sep. 2020
• Baker-hating Trump acolyte Jim Lyons and his wild crew.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 17 Aug. 2022
• The acolyte is pressing her hero for details so Tucker can get in touch with her life emotions in the booth.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 13 Mar. 2022
• And Guthrie has been gone well beyond a half-century, which leaves peers (very few) and acolytes (very many).
  — Houston Chronicle, 5 Sep. 2019
• Trump and his acolytes have infused their rhetoric with violent imagery.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2024
• Even as acolytes cling to vinyl and other bits of physical product, DVDs and Blu-rays disappear.
  — Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 12 July 2024

Last Updated: 30 Sep 2024