How to Use apostate in a Sentence

apostate

noun

• Their faith barred them from even speaking to apostates.
  — Alden Woods, azcentral, 27 Mar. 2018
• Churches could be required to put apostates and atheists on their boards.
  — Richard A. Epstein, WSJ, 11 Sep. 2018
• Now the first is an apostate failed state; the second, a quiet supporter; and the third, a de facto ally.
  — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 3 Sep. 2019
• And doing it with her fellow Nashville apostates in the Dixie Chicks?
  — Mikael Wood, chicagotribune.com, 26 Aug. 2019
• An apostate Synanon member had nearly been beaten to death.
  — Hillel Aron, Los Angeles Magazine, 23 Apr. 2018
• For all of the loyalists Trump surrounded himself with, Cipollone was closer to an apostate in the West Wing.
  — Josh Dawsey, BostonGlobe.com, 6 July 2022
• Sunni extremists view Shiites as apostates, and have carried out scores of attacks over the past two decades that have killed thousands of them.
  — Fox News, 2 May 2018
• Abstract Expressionism’s greatest apostate — on view at all times for the next 50 years.
  — Roberta Smith, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2023
• Like many in the early 1970s, Weberman saw his hero as an apostate, who had forsaken his role as the voice of a generation.
  — John Semley, The New Republic, 26 May 2021
• Its first city, which lay in an arid Arabian desert, excluded non-Muslims and sentenced apostates to death.
  — The Economist, 1 Feb. 2020
• This would be the case also for an apostate, heretic, schismatic bishop, presbyter, or deacon.
  — Fr. Goran Jovicic, National Review, 13 June 2021
• These people call Catholics like me apostates for opposing the church’s doubling down on culture war issues at the expense of social justice.
  — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2023
• While Hon warns of the dangers of gamification, his book is not entirely a tech apostate’s account.
  — Rhoda Feng, The New Republic, 7 Dec. 2022
• Extremist Sunni groups, such as IS, view Shiites as apostates and consider shrines a form of idolatry.
  — Orange County Register, 11 Mar. 2017
• The sudden arrival of a new class of tech skeptic, the industry apostate, has only complicated the discussion.
  — John Herrman, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2018
• That’s when Jeffs — who was already in prison at the time — labeled Williams an apostate, eventually resulting in him leaving and losing his home and family.
  — Mark Eddington, The Salt Lake Tribune, 12 Aug. 2022
• The Sunni extremists view Shiites as apostates deserving of death.
  — Bassem Mroue, chicagotribune.com, 18 May 2017
• Again the Falcons enraptured the nation, becoming the favorite team for other franchise’s apostates and Madden video game players.
  — Ben Baskin, SI.com, 14 Sep. 2017
• That makes them prime targets for Islamic State militants, who are Sunnis and consider Shiites to be apostates.
  — Melissa Etehad, latimes.com, 9 June 2017
• The spark that ignited it all was a big-budget movie about the historical prophet Muhammad supported by the Black Muslims but damned as blasphemous by an angry apostate.
  — Edward Kosner, WSJ, 28 Dec. 2022
• And 4 percent declared that defectors — apostates — deserved more harm.
  — Lilliana Mason, Washington Post, 16 May 2018
• The Sunni extremist group views Shiites as apostates and has targeted Pakistan’s Shiite minority in the past.
  — Kathy Gannon, Orange County Register, 17 Feb. 2017
• In the shocked Senate chamber after the crucial vote, McConnell seemed near tears, furious at the three apostates who frustrated his Republicans-only process, and completely out of ideas.
  — Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 28 July 2017
• There’s nothing more tantalizing to a journalist than apostates.
  — Matt Pearce, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2023
• Picture the apostate disembarking from the motorcycle, in a paisley shirt, a scarf, and tight pants tucked into high boots, and rolling into his human-sexuality class at Golden West.
  — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2020
• That book sets the Latter-day Saints apart from other Christian denominations, who even today often view the relative newcomer faith as suspect — or even apostate.
  — New York Times, 13 Oct. 2019
• These choices cost Rustin allies and friendships, as former colleagues who afforded themselves the luxury of one-issue purity denounced him as an apostate, a hypocrite, a turncoat or worse.
  — Jerald Podair, The Conversation, 30 Jan. 2023
• Most of the Islamic world now ignores ancient calls to jihad, concubinage or the execution of apostates and homosexuals.
  — Bartle Bull, WSJ, 26 Aug. 2018
• The radical Sunni Islamic state reviles Shiites as apostates.
  — Fox News, 7 Sep. 2018
• The Sunni militant group considers Shiite Muslims as apostates.
  — Kathy Gannon and Mirwais Khan, chicagotribune.com, 2 Aug. 2017

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024