How to Use ideologue in a Sentence

ideologue

noun

• Ze’ev Jabotinsky was the ideologue who gave birth to the Israeli right wing.
  — Sam Bahour, Washington Post, 3 June 2021
• Nuon Chea, 92, was Pol Pot’s deputy and chief ideologue.
  — James Hookway, WSJ, 16 Nov. 2018
• People are tired of the ideologues and hate from both parties.
  — Tatiana Tenreyro, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Aug. 2024
• Le Pen is not the first right-wing ideologue to emphasize her resilience in the face of those who’ve sought to cut her down.
  — Moira Weigel, The New Yorker, 6 May 2017
• Ebrahim Raisi, a rigid ideologue and the head of the judiciary, was elected.
  — Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 27 Dec. 2021
• The extremist ideologue was transported in the back of a truck.
  — Zachary Halaschak, Washington Examiner, 17 Jan. 2020
• Lula stood out as less of an ideologue and more of a pragmatist.
  — Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2022
• Johnson remains the rock-ribbed ideologue that so endeared him to the Tea Party.
  — Time, 4 Nov. 2022
• Or maybe Gruden is just a controlling ideologue who’s coaching in and for the wrong era.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 19 Sep. 2019
• Weeks passed while the Centers for Disease Control, run by a right-wing ideologue, scrambled to fix it.
  — Ryan Cooper, TheWeek, 17 Mar. 2020
• His government is one of ideologues and killers, not a suicide cult.
  — Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2023
• This lack of clarity may stem from the fact that these people are not ideologues but reformists.
  — John Herrman, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2018
• So, what comes to the top is the information put out by ideologues and extremists.
  — Recode Staff, Recode, 14 July 2018
• In both cases, some observers might argue that this is because the ideologues have won.
  — Robert Boatright, Washington Post, 5 June 2018
• Some will stem from ideologues who have felt the party has veered too far from its original left-wing vision.
  — Alex González Ormerod, TIME, 30 May 2024
• Still, Shifter said, Boric is more of a conciliator than an ideologue.
  — Pamela Constable, Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2023
• With less to do, people spent more time inside their homes watching TV, where right-wing pundits and ideologues thrived.
  — Elisabeth Zerofsky, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2024
• Here was a world view built less on an ideologue’s bedrock principles than an actor’s need for applause.
  — Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2024
• But Wolf was not known publicly as an ideologue or Trump true believer.
  — Nick Miroff, Washington Post, 3 Aug. 2020
• Both the Senate and House are full of members who won’t stand up to their party’s ideologues or financial backers.
  — Carl Cannon, Orange County Register, 2 Apr. 2017
• That, perhaps, will bring a final judgment on which Mr. Abe – the ideologue or the pragmatist – prevails.
  — Daniel Sneider, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 July 2022
• The irony is that Corbyn, who is seen as an ideologue, managed to do better than expected by fudging this.
  — Isaac Chotiner, Slate Magazine, 9 June 2017
• But in the Central Valley and Orange County, the people who inhabit those districts and cast the votes aren’t ideologues.
  — John Wildermuth, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Mar. 2018
• For free-market ideologues, government schools are always a last resort and available to the poor.
  — Valerie Strauss, Washington Post, 30 May 2018
• The only leverage those ideologues can wield, then, is threatening the speaker’s job.
  — Jim Newell, Slate Magazine, 5 Sep. 2017
• The president likes Mr Bolton’s damn-your-eyes style, but has a way of surrounding himself with diverse opinions, and tires of ideologues.
  — The Economist, 28 Mar. 2018
• The race now is a clash of visions: the progressive ideologue vs. the liberal pragmatist.
  — Allysia Finley, WSJ, 3 June 2022
• His son Eduardo, now probably the chief ideologue in the family, has made sure that threats are not just subtext.
  — Vincent Bevins, The New York Review of Books, 23 Mar. 2020
• And neither Coppola nor Snyder deals with how ideologues have plundered the West.
  — Armond White, National Review, 9 Oct. 2024
• The suspect appeared to be a political ideologue with a large social media presence who became disenchanted with Trump after 2016.
  — Ashley Oliver, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 16 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Dec 2024