How to Use disciple in a Sentence

disciple

noun

• Like your disciples, we too are filled with fear and doubt and even suspicion.
  — San Antonio Express-News, 28 Feb. 2018
• Williams, Trivers said, was always one of his most loyal disciples.
  — Dan Wiederer, Chicago Tribune, 26 Oct. 2024
• Rodriguez, a one-time disciple of Hausmann’s, disagrees on that point.
  — Ben Bartenstein, Bloomberg.com, 28 Feb. 2018
• Mary was a disciple of her philosopher father and, for all the science, the novel’s primary concern is ethics.
  — The Economist, 17 Feb. 2018
• In John 9:1-2, Jesus and his disciples encountered a man who had been born blind.
  — Loren A. Yadon, idahostatesman, 16 Feb. 2018
• The Yotes were picking up too many fouls early in the season, so Garson, a disciple of man-to-man defense, made a shift to a matchup zone.
  — Dave Southorn, idahostatesman, 7 Mar. 2018
• Jesus’ answer to the disciple’s question in John 9 provides the third reason why bad things can happen to good people.
  — Loren A. Yadon, idahostatesman, 16 Feb. 2018
• The first disciples, a group of first century Palestinian Jews, wrestled with how to carry on the Jesus movement.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 11 Mar. 2018
• He was drawn to the work of Carl Jung, one of Freud’s disciples and the heir apparent to his legacy until their falling out in 1913.
  — Lila Shapiro, Vulture, 30 July 2024
• A year ago, everyone on that staff (save for Greg Frey) was a Harbaugh disciple and echo chambers can develop quickly, intentional or not.
  — Nick Baumgardner, Detroit Free Press, 21 Feb. 2018
• The Lord's Prayer comes from the Gospels as Jesus taught his disciples the prayer.
  — Ryan W. Miller, USA TODAY, 6 June 2019
• And maybe, in a certain way, his disciple is the killer in all of us.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 13 Oct. 2022
• Jesus sports a halo and a beard, and his eyes are closed, in contrast to the open eyes of the disciples.
  — Diane Bell, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Apr. 2023
• That very sequence, as disciples of the Air Raid would tell you, is the entire point.
  — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2019
• The council and the disciples differ sharply over what has happened in the months since.
  — David Sarasohn, The New Republic, 12 Apr. 2018
• But the thing the quarterback has to do is have the patience and disciple to just give what the defense gives.
  — Michael Casagrande | [e-mail], al, 25 July 2019
• Then there are the disciples of Starr who have risen to the highest ranks of government.
  — Dan Zak, The Seattle Times, 11 Sep. 2018
• As the disciple swam, he was pursued by the same water beast.
  — Matt Blitz, Popular Mechanics, 21 Nov. 2019
• The women tell a meeting of the disciples that Jesus has risen and the men ignore them.
  — John Blake, CNN, 30 Mar. 2018
• Pusha is a protégé of West, a disciple of the church of provocation.
  — Josie Duffy Rice, The Atlantic, 12 July 2018
• And from that time on, this disciple took her into his home.
  — Elizabeth Berry, Woman's Day, 1 May 2023
• But all these questions miss the point, the Buddha tells his disciple.
  — New York Times, 31 May 2022
• His disciples also spoke of Trump being saved by the hand of God.
  — Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 22 July 2024
• The killers lived at the Spahn Ranch, and were disciples of a failed musician named Charles Manson.
  — New York Times, 24 July 2019
• Study the disciples and all their fears, jealousies and failings.
  — Terry Pluto, cleveland.com, 7 June 2019
• It's credited to St. Matthew, a man who was called by Jesus to be one of his disciples.
  — Christine Rousselle, Fox News, 14 Feb. 2024
• But inevitably, morale cratered, the business wobbled, the stock price sank and the Welch disciple was sent packing.
  — New York Times, 21 May 2022
• Why was the book and its many disciples so persistent if there wasn’t something in it?
  — Vicky Spratt, refinery29.com, 2 July 2019
• Lafargue was Karl Marx’s son-in-law and disciple, and may be the person who coined the term Marxism.
  — Lily Meyer, The Atlantic, 12 Jan. 2023
• Dieckhaus was a third grader at the Covenant School and her sister, a fifth grader, is a member of the disciples class at the church.
  — Grace Hauck, USA TODAY, 27 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024