How to Use acolyte in a Sentence

acolyte

noun

• When the commercial web was new, its acolytes were eager to show it off.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2017
• That didn’t stop Bannon’s acolytes from giving him credit.
  — Tina Nguyen, The Hive, 27 Sep. 2017
• Every week -- sometimes daily -- Trump and his acolytes inject the nation's bloodstream with a drop or two of poison.
  — Michelle Hunter, NOLA.com, 19 Oct. 2017
• The hymn-like first theme gathers around it faster-moving motifs, like beauty personified collecting ever more acolytes and worshipers.
  — Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 19 July 2024
• This 58th Street townhouse and commercial space was designed by the late architect Paul Rudolph, with two upper floors and a roof deck added later by an acolyte.
  — Chris Rovzar, Bloomberg.com, 22 Sep. 2017
• 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
• 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
• Of course, not every Musk fan is as fervent an acolyte as Ocean and Gomez.
  — Bijan Stephen, The Verge, 26 June 2018
• Ham could be the next Budenzholer acolyte to get to run his own show.
  — Christian Clark, NOLA.com, 4 Sep. 2020
• In Harmon's rants, his fans—equal parts acolyte and troll—are always 15.
  — Sean O'Neal, GQ, 30 May 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
• 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
• What's a combative ex-Donald Trump acolyte to do after she's been shown the door of the White House?
  — Maria Puente, USA TODAY, 29 Jan. 2018
• 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
• Over the course of his life, a string of Douglass acolytes, white women all, falls not just for the speeches, but for the man himself.
  — Erin Douglass, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 July 2024
• 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

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024