How to Use evangelist in a Sentence

evangelist

noun
  • The 4 Calling Birds are the four gospels and/or the four evangelists.
    Katie Bourque, Good Housekeeping, 30 Sep. 2019
  • He is held aloft by angels and, at the corners, the four evangelists.
    Los Angeles Times, 23 July 2019
  • But for true evangelists, the dream is for self-learning to do more than that—to add more butter to the slice of toast.
    Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 16 Feb. 2024
  • Hazel Motes becomes the Deep South evangelist of a church without Christ.
    Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2021
  • Gluten-free evangelists may not like calling this a fad diet, but the term fits.
    Allyson Reedy, The Know, 16 Oct. 2019
  • But while Kenny has never seen his words as irrefutable gospel, there is a touch of the evangelist to him.
    Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2020
  • More than a travel guide, more than a food host, Mr. Bourdain was an evangelist of the senses.
    James Poniewozik, New York Times, 8 June 2018
  • The likelihood is that in the early days of AI, your role is more of an evangelist and go-to person and expert.
    Jared Council, WSJ, 8 Mar. 2021
  • The evangelist was impressed by Holley’s work and offered him a job.
    Mark Woolsey, ajc, 11 May 2020
  • Since then, Monfore has become a bit of an evangelist for this way of walking.
    Kevyn Burger Special To The Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 11 Dec. 2020
  • His only companions are a nurse and a young evangelist who shows up at his doorstep.
    Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2022
  • Now, Epstein’s an evangelist of range, the voice of the deeply superficial.
    Ephrat Livni, Quartz, 9 June 2019
  • Ever since that meeting 35 years ago, Jack O. Burns has been the lead evangelist for building telescopes on the moon.
    Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 15 May 2021
  • He’s long been an evangelist for the magic of the glacier, leading jet boat tours in the summertime through his business Knik Glacier Tours.
    Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Apr. 2021
  • Zhao seemed entranced by Musk’s mystique as an evangelist of free speech.
    Shawn Tully, Fortune, 2 June 2023
  • Bryan Stallings is the chief evangelist at Lucid Software.
    Jessica Guistolise and Bryan Stallings, Quartz, 17 Oct. 2022
  • Sixteen statues—of twelve apostles and four evangelists—were taken down from the cathedral's roof near the spire on April 11.
    Chloe Foussianes, Town & Country, 15 Apr. 2019
  • Eva, who begins ninth grade in the fall, is a clown, a contortionist, a tight-wire performer — and an evangelist for the circus life.
    Thomas Farragher, BostonGlobe.com, 29 July 2019
  • Barnes became a short-week evangelist, and a global movement was born.
    Meghan M. Biro, Forbes, 25 Aug. 2022
  • Dorsey, a Bitcoin evangelist, announced in 2018 that Cash App users would be able to buy and sell the cryptocurrency.
    Ben Weiss, Fortune Crypto, 12 Apr. 2023
  • In an essay, King wrote about a guest evangelist speaking at their Sunday School and inviting children to join the church.
    Alex Sundby, CBS News, 29 June 2023
  • Soni, the first leader of the foundation, has become an evangelist of sorts for bringing in new private sources of funding for the WHO.
    Thalia Beaty, BostonGlobe.com, 20 July 2023
  • Nguyen got into pickleball in 2019 and has become an evangelist for the sport.
    Carly Olson, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2023
  • Butter evangelist Joelle Mertzel is spreading the word.
    Kristina Peterson, wsj.com, 27 Apr. 2023
  • Mars evangelist and SpaceX founder Elon Musk may soon have an easier time going green.
    Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 7 Mar. 2022
  • Michael Bream is a leading evangelist for this type of conversion.
    Wired, 9 Nov. 2019
  • Just ask founder Richard Eagleton, the evangelist at the helm of this new product demonstration.
    Hershal Pandya, Vulture, 15 May 2024
  • It’s almost like being an evangelist, or a warrior, for love.
    The New York Times, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2022
  • Bailey was part of a small army of bitcoin fanatics who indoctrinated Trump in all things bitcoin and helped turned him from a skeptic to an evangelist.
    Mackenzie Sigalos, CNBC, 16 Oct. 2024
  • Crypto evangelists have held up Blackbird as a paragon for mainstream crypto adoption and a case study for how crypto might soon be implemented into many facets of life.
    Andrew R. Chow, TIME, 31 July 2024

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