How to Use zealot in a Sentence

zealot

noun

• Cloe is the mean girl, Lisa is the zealot and Astrid is the less smart one.
  — Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 9 July 2024
• The zealot is long gone, and in his place is just Floki.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2021
• Taylor, 52, and her cousins were raised to be zoo zealots.
  — Olivia Diaz, Washington Post, 31 Oct. 2023
• Winning brings out the zealots, and zealots devour their friends.
  — David Von Drehle, Washington Post, 17 June 2024
• His role is to grow the party as opposed to being a zealot . . .
  — BostonGlobe.com, 30 May 2021
• The main stone altar, a flat disk about 20 feet across and raised about two feet off the ground, was smashed by Mao’s zealots.
  — Ian Johnson, New York Times, 1 May 2017
• Crackstone was a zealot who hated and feared the outcasts and planned to kill them all.
  — Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 24 Nov. 2022
• Burke is a zealot on the issue and makes no apology for it.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 30 Aug. 2022
• Hardly the words or actions of a pot zealot white-knuckling the armchair with fears of the feds.
  — The Denver Post Editorial Board, The Denver Post, 14 Apr. 2017
• The Texas lawman hardly looks like a law-and-order zealot.
  — Edward Kiersh, SPIN, 11 Feb. 2023
• But Yang didn’t want to become consumed by Barbie in the way so many zealots are.
  — Anne Branigin, Washington Post, 15 July 2023
• But these fans may soon need to share their bleachers or slice of sod in the Snake Pit with a new crew: the solar zealots (coining the term here).
  — Sarah Bowman, Indianapolis Star, 18 May 2018
• But with the arrival of the Jim Crow era, Stevens was reduced to the caricature of a vengeful zealot.
  — Fergus M. Bordewich, WSJ, 5 Mar. 2021
• The Iraq war was not foisted on the United States by conflict-craving zealots.
  — Hal Brands, Foreign Affairs, 28 Feb. 2023
• The rules are tailored to allow any zealot, anywhere, to challenge any book at any time.
  — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 1 Jan. 2024
• The zealot should scrupulously develop a counter-trait of shalom.
  — Rabbi Avi Weiss, sun-sentinel.com, 28 June 2021
• To the bemusement of zealots on both sides of the culture wars, the decision was unanimous.
  — Andrea Picciotti-Bayer, National Review, 30 June 2023
• Play as big a role in the mundane activities of politics as the zealots do.
  — Yvonne Wingett Sanchez, azcentral, 30 Apr. 2018
• Late in the game, the play suffers from a creeping tediousness that can come from the speechifying of zealots of every stripe.
  — Andrea Simakis, cleveland.com, 16 May 2017
• Mr Akin was inspired to make the movie after reading in 2013 that a gay-pride event in Tbilisi had been harassed by thugs and zealots.
  — The Economist, 29 Aug. 2019
• Good both for Instagram addicts and flat Earth zealots.
  — Vlad Savov, The Verge, 13 July 2018
• And those who weep for them or try to protect them are condemned roundly as religious zealots and akin to racists.
  — John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 13 June 2019
• But calling him an overbearing zealot would be missing the point.
  — Keith Bierygolick, The Enquirer, 13 Aug. 2021
• Among the many strange and dark forces that animate Donald Trump, the urgings of far-right white-power zealot Steve Bannon might be the most hideous.
  — Slate Staff, Slate Magazine, 26 Apr. 2017
• But the decline will be slower than fintech zealots believe.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 21 June 2019
• Mantis from the Guardians of the Galaxy films, are A.I. zealots or simply superior thugs-for-hire.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 5 July 2023
• To put the end to these threats the new management made the chop-chop square work double time to demonstrate what will happen to zealots who want the country to stay behind.
  — Alex Zhavoronkov, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
• Some of the anti-Trump zealots are now claiming that the Russians actually swung the election.
  — Fox News, 31 July 2018
• These tech zealots dream of a world where AI develops unchecked, regardless of the consequences.
  — Sunny Gandhi, The Mercury News, 6 Aug. 2024
• To be fair to Trump and other anti-globalization zealots, amid all their mis-information and bluster is a kernel of truth.
  — N. Gregory Mankiw, Foreign Affairs, 11 Dec. 2018

Last Updated: 19 Nov 2024