How to Use atheist in a Sentence

atheist

noun

• The claim that atheists were the cause of these holocausts is false.
  — Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, 8 Aug. 2019
• Sami Al-Asady met an atheist for the first time in eighth grade.
  — AZCentral.com, 26 Sep. 2021
• Meanwhile, the number of atheists has risen from 1% to 3%.
  — P.z. | Istanbul, The Economist, 1 July 2019
• Nathan Bigler of Salt Lake City is an atheist with teen children.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 Dec. 2021
• Just like people of faith, not all atheists believe the same things.
  — Harmeet Kaur, CNN, 10 Mar. 2024
• For starters, Luther was, of course, anything but a godless atheist.
  — Paul Kengor, National Review, 9 Sep. 2020
• No dice — Saint John the Forerunner knows Clarence is an atheist.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 12 Jan. 2024
• As a 93-year-old atheist, Scalfari will find out soon enough if hell exists.
  — Judie Vegh, cleveland.com, 4 Apr. 2018
• Believers and atheists alike could agree that would be mean.
  — Jim Stingl, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 Jan. 2018
• Like someone once said, there are no atheists in foxholes.
  — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Mar. 2018
• There are as many of them as atheists and agnostics combined (7% each).
  — Peter Smith, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2023
• This person, an atheist, was invited to a bar mitzvah and didn’t want to go.
  — Amy Dickinson, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Oct. 2022
• This person, an atheist, was invited to a Bar Mitzvah and didn’t want to go.
  — Amy Dickinson, Chicago Tribune, 13 Oct. 2022
• The Bolsheviks were atheists, and religion was expunged from the whole of the new Russian state.
  — Karl Ove Knausgaard, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2018
• The fire station itself was under threat, and people began to pray, even the atheists among them.
  — Washington Post, 8 Jan. 2020
• The group has been linked to killings and attacks on secular academics and atheist bloggers in Bangladesh.
  — Crimesider Staff, CBS News, 13 Dec. 2017
• There is an adage that says there are no atheists in foxholes — even skeptics will pray when facing death.
  — Emma Goldberg Desiree Rios, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2024
• Mark and his twin brother are atheists like me, and their older brother is worried for our souls.
  — Sara Eckel, Longreads, 1 June 2018
• In that moment, I was surprised by my favorite atheist counting on a lucky charm.
  — Ana Marie Cox, SI.com, 21 Dec. 2017
• Does a Black Christian feel more affinity with a white Christian or a Black atheist?
  — Chris Wilson, Time, 20 May 2021
• Gervais, who is an atheist, appended to the tweet a photo of himself being licked by a dog.
  — Jon Brown, Washington Examiner, 10 Jan. 2020
• If one town could bar the AFA, another could reject a mosque, a synagogue or an atheist group.
  — Steve Chapman, chicagotribune.com, 16 Dec. 2020
• Facing a legal battle, Hill soon seeks help from his estranged brother -- a big-city lawyer and atheist -- in a fight to help rebuild the church.
  — Joey Morona, cleveland.com, 29 Mar. 2018
• As a teen atheist and the sole child of a single mom who raised him in soulless suburbs around New York City, Michael was well on his way to becoming such a man.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 14 June 2019
• If Smith is free to warn that atheists can expect eternal agony, Jones is free to call religion a mammoth fraud.
  — Steve Chapman, chicagotribune.com, 17 Oct. 2019
• Those findings have led some to conclude that, if religion is good for you, being an atheist will be bad for your health.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 Mar. 2021
• No one in the Miles family is heartened by the appearance of a wayward white atheist in Della’s life.
  — Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2020
• Dennington was alarmed to hear Loibl — who had been an atheist — talking about a pop singer in religious terms.
  — Jeff Weiner, OrlandoSentinel.com, 19 June 2018
• My father was a Communist and my mother was an atheist!
  — Joseph S. Laughon, National Review, 2 Mar. 2022
• Liz Cooper-Klish said the Bible ultimately led her down the path of becoming an atheist.
  — Sarah Elbeshbishi, USA TODAY, 29 May 2022

Last Updated: 28 May 2024