How to Use crusade in a Sentence

crusade

1 of 2 noun

• The House has not yet embraced the school choice crusade.
  — Robert T. Garrett, Dallas News, 25 May 2023
• Kyle goes so far as to say there seems to be a crusade against Kathy.
  — Dana Feldman, Peoplemag, 28 Sep. 2022
• Now, the two of them are on a crusade few others in the sport would embark on.
  — Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 22 Nov. 2022
• My years-long crusade to end the plague of blues in Destiny 2 is over.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2023
• Crude emails reveal the nasty side of a beach city’s crusade to halt growth.
  — Los Angeles Times, 15 Nov. 2022
• And what would that kind of lifelong crusade do to a person?
  — Devan Coggan, EW.com, 25 Aug. 2022
• Her crusade has been to avenge him — so what does that moment mean to her?
  — Hunter Ingram, Variety, 30 June 2023
• But their crusade gained a prime-time spotlight when Hamlin's life was saved on the field that day.
  — Stephanie Kuzydym, The Courier-Journal, 29 Mar. 2023
• Yet for nearly a decade, there has been a crusade against yeshivas in New York.
  — Sheva Tauby, WSJ, 15 Sep. 2022
• To keep the suit and his crusade alive, Moskowitz aimed to lure as a partner arguably the biggest name in the legal game, David Boies.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 8 May 2023
• For three years as mayor of Salem, Kim Driscoll led a fruitless crusade.
  — Andrew Brinker, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Dec. 2022
• So, that’s always been part of my crusade so to speak - just to knock down those barriers.
  — Jim Ryan, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2023
• In the spring of 1977, Anita Bryant led a Florida crusade against equal rights for gays and lesbians.
  — Gilbert Garcia, San Antonio Express-News, 10 Dec. 2022
• The label then embarked on a bizarre crusade against plus-size women.
  — Oscar Holland, CNN, 29 Sep. 2022
• Maria Joel replaced her husband as the leader of the farmworkers union and took up the mantle of his crusade.
  — Richard Schiffman, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Mar. 2023
• Those of us appalled that the front page of the Times has turned into Pravda are unlikely to root for Twohey-Rosen’s crusade.
  — Armond White, National Review, 25 Jan. 2023
• Their revenge plot is less a righteous up-yours to those above and more a personal crusade.
  — Vulture, 26 Mar. 2023
• Murkowski was a top target for Trump, who has made this year's midterm cycle the lynchpin of his crusade to purge the GOP of any critics.
  — Bytal Axelrod, ABC News, 16 Aug. 2022
• And Jamie is once again distracted by a crusade that the plot will never permit to flourish.
  — Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 4 Feb. 2023
• Thereafter, the two would go on to continue their crusade for justice.
  — Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence, 22 Nov. 2023
• Who would have thought Lefebvre’s crusade for Latin would be taken up in Woodlawn?
  — Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 2 Oct. 2022
• The pair are now free from a villain that had been driving their stories for years, as well as the crusade to take back the planet Mandalore with Bo-Katan.
  — Herb Scribner, Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2023
• Since 2017, she’s been on a crusade to convince restaurants in and around Durham to add pawpaw to their seasonal menus.
  — Cari Shane, Saveur, 4 Oct. 2023
• The denizens of r/RawMeat seem to skew young and male, and their forum unfurls like a pamphlet for a profound new epicurean crusade.
  — Luke Winkie, Bon Appétit, 31 Aug. 2022
• But, arguably the chicest detail in her all-pink crusade came in the form of a pink two-tone French manicure, worn for the film’s premiere in Seoul, South Korea.
  — Hannah Coates, Vogue, 3 July 2023
• The fight became a crusade for Trotter and the city’s civil rights community.
  — Dick Lehr, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Jan. 2023
• But what concerns us more over here is Harry’s crusade against Murdoch.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 28 Apr. 2023
• Levesque did not mention Kennedy’s crusade against vaccines.
  — Steven Porter, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Mar. 2023
• But that’s just the beginning of this Black man’s crusade against economic injustice.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 10 Mar. 2024
• One is of jihad, Herbert’s term for the fervent crusade led by Paul Atreides with the Fremen against the oppressive interstellar regime.
  — Manvir Singh, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2024

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crusade

2 of 2 verb

• Tony is the crusading truth-seeker, Mira the naive do-gooder.
  — Hillary Kelly, Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2023
• Stockmann starts crusading to get the baths shut down, cleaned up, and rebuilt with safety in mind.
  — Chicago Reader, 5 Apr. 2018
• Hank Hunt had long crusaded for the law, traveling the country to promote it.
  — Kevin Diaz, Houston Chronicle, 16 Feb. 2018
• Most of your career has been spent crusading against the corporate world.
  — Tj Kliebhan, Chicago Reader, 24 Apr. 2018
• Franco, who was black and a lesbian, crusaded for black and gay causes.
  — Sergio Ramalho, The Seattle Times, 14 Jan. 2019
• Warren crusaded against the bill on the Senate floor anyway, but only two Democrats joined her in voting against it.
  — Charles Homans, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2017
• Atwood thought himself too big for Anchorage and crusaded to build up the town.
  — Alaska Dispatch News, 22 Aug. 2017
• A crusading journalist has other things in mind for him.
  — Seattle Times Staff, The Seattle Times, 31 May 2017
• But this 1977 gem isn’t an in-your-face, crusading political film.
  — G. Allen Johnson, SFChronicle.com, 18 Dec. 2019
• Then the central foursome became a crusading Soul Squad, flying around the world on Tahani’s infinite dime.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 1 Feb. 2020
• For more than a year, Sergio Moro, a crusading judge in southern Brazil, had overseen the Petrobras inquiry.
  — Simon Romero, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2016
• The massacre reignited the debate over gun violence and spurred many Parkland high schoolers to crusade for gun control.
  — Sean Rossman, USA TODAY, 7 Mar. 2018
• For more than 20 years, ministers have played an invaluable role in crusading against street violence in the city.
  — Adrian Walker, BostonGlobe.com, 4 June 2018
• Carol Falkowski spent decades crusading against the spread of illicit drugs.
  — Sarah Horner, Twin Cities, 22 Jan. 2017
• Marracci hoped that his accurate work would have the same effect in training crusading priests to dispute the word of Muhammad.
  — Jacob Soll, The New Republic, 12 Apr. 2018
• To crusade for it is to be on the side of justice, and so there is no choice but to accuse those obstructing it of being racists, misogynists, élitists, or oppressors.
  — Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2020
• At times over the course of her campaign, Warren has sounded a cautious note on guns that is at odds with some of her more crusading liberal politics.
  — Jess Bidgood, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Aug. 2019
• At first, Conan Doyle’s crusading efforts went nowhere.
  — Sarah Weinman, The New Republic, 14 June 2018
• Kardashian West is still crusading for prison reform and is said to have been visiting jails around the capital and Maryland area this past week.
  — Harper's Bazaar Staff, Harper's BAZAAR, 26 July 2019
• Lisa copes with the aftermath of watching a woman die on the street by first lashing out at her single mother and her own friends, then crusading to blame someone for the accident.
  — Hazlitt, 12 Dec. 2022
• Grigoriadis also spends hours with students who claim to have been falsely accused, as well as with their crusading parents.
  — Michelle Goldberg, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2017
• The most striking sight is in the Quire, where the Garter Knights each have permanent, elaborately carved stalls, marked by large enameled brass nameplates in French, the language the royal court and crusading knights used in the 14th century.
  — Nancy Nathan, chicagotribune.com, 16 Apr. 2018
• Sometimes, the crusading rhetoric of online cranks and neo-Nazis is translated into deadly action.
  — Dan Jones, Time, 10 Oct. 2019
• Adams, in turn, has sought to portray Herring as an activist crusading for his own liberal causes rather than standing up for the state’s existing laws.
  — Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2017
• In New York, landlords have crusaded, with the help of millions of dollars, against anti-eviction legislation.
  — Sam Russek, The New Republic, 1 May 2023
• The Ukrainian probe has been linked to a government agency and a crusading lawmaker, but not to the president himself; the Russian campaign seems to have been directed from Vladimir Putin on down.
  — Uri Friedman, The Atlantic, 13 July 2017
• One crusading doctor made big scientific claims, but academic researchers steered clear of the idea.
  — Julie Rehmeyer, Slate Magazine, 12 June 2017
• Despite its image as a crusading publication, the Post often went out of its way to be sympathetic to power.
  — Christian Lorentzen, New Republic, 14 Dec. 2017
• Pastor Hamilton, who leads a local Baptist congregation, and the others had assembled by a statue of a crusading newspaperman from the 1800s that had become a grim landmark.
  — Rick Rojas Alyssa Pointer, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2023
• There’s a Mystery Science Theater 3000 track to the film (though it’s not necessarily needed), and ironically, Gray would spend her golden years crusading for prayer to be reinstated in public school.
  — Nicholas Bell, SPIN, 24 Oct. 2023

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