How to Use acolyte in a Sentence

acolyte

noun

• A highly influential economist whose acolytes can be found at many major universities.
• No one knows which Trump acolyte gets to walk the plank first.
  — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 30 May 2017
• Moreyball acolytes may blanch at Tatum’s rep as a mid-range master, but he shouldn’t be confused for a ball-stopping chucker.
  — Chris Johnson, SI.com, 21 June 2017
• As the wife of a famous intellectual, she was often seen as Lionel’s acolyte or appendage.
  — Tobi Haslett, The New Yorker, 29 May 2017
• Neutra’s acolyte, Harwell Hamilton Harris, said they were looked upon as twin freaks.
  — Coastmag, Orange County Register, 3 Mar. 2017
• The speech landed reasonably well, and Trump acolytes like Jeffrey Lord will not struggle to defend it.
  — Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 21 May 2017
• Gianforte billed himself as a Trump acolyte who would repeal Obamacare, slash spending and open development on the state’s public lands.
  — Julie Turkewitz, The Seattle Times, 22 May 2017
• Mr. Gianforte billed himself as a Trump acolyte who will repeal Obamacare, slash spending and open development on the state’s public lands.
  — Julie Turkewitz, New York Times, 22 May 2017
• Switching between grand piano and electric, Iyer, 30 years Smith’s junior, seemed in this context like the kind of acolyte whose own brilliance brings forth a wisdom in his old master.
  — Mark Swed, latimes.com, 9 June 2017
• Offshoots rose and fell in the next decades as acolytes worked to keep the book in print.
  — Sam Kestenbaum, New York Times, 7 June 2018
• For acolytes of the craze, such high-brow bottles are worth the hefty price.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 3 Dec. 2019
• So good thing Potter acolyte Zhang was there to break the news to him.
  — Ashley Hoffman, Time, 11 July 2017
• But Zeldin, who served in the military, wasn't a Trump acolyte from the get-go.
  — Allan Smith, NBC News, 11 Nov. 2019
• Nahi, Naru's acolyte at the time, had eyes swollen and rimmed red from weeping.
  — Seija Rankin, EW.com, 21 Sep. 2021
• This time, though, Roth’s allies and acolytes would need to put on the show all by themselves.
  — Hannah Gold, Harper's Magazine, 3 Nov. 2023
• Good news for Swift style acolytes: Her top is still available in most sizes.
  — Glamour, 25 May 2019
• But Brooks has hardly been the only Trump acolyte to lately chafe at the leash.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 25 Mar. 2022
• If this was The End, Pacquiao and his team and acolytes would take a relaxed approach.
  — Greg Bishop, SI.com, 21 July 2019
• Of course, not every Musk fan is as fervent an acolyte as Ocean and Gomez.
  — Bijan Stephen, The Verge, 26 June 2018
• Ham could be the next Budenzholer acolyte to get to run his own show.
  — Christian Clark, NOLA.com, 4 Sep. 2020
• In Harmon's rants, his fans—equal parts acolyte and troll—are always 15.
  — Sean O'Neal, GQ, 30 May 2018
• And because this is Depp, an acolyte of Hunter S. Thompson, there was some drug talk, too.
  — Jayme Deerwester, USA TODAY, 21 June 2018
• And when the acolyte comes to appreciate the same art as the instructor?
  — Julie Belcove, Robb Report, 16 May 2021
• The singer is among a growing list of celebrity Jean Paul Gaultier acolytes.
  — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 16 Oct. 2023
• When the commercial web was new, its acolytes were eager to show it off.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2017
• But little had changed by the time Bradford, an acolyte of Brown’s, became chief in 1996.
  — Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2020
• The film made $38 million worldwide but has become part of the canon of staples for Brooks acolytes.
  — Brian Welk, IndieWire, 18 June 2024
• There’s no worse fate than being purchased by the gun lobby and its acolytes.
  — cleveland, 7 Oct. 2019
• Meanwhile, Israel is acting like the world’s unfettered and unhinged superpower as the U.S. is reduced to its acolyte.
  — Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 12 Oct. 2024
• The hymn-like first theme gathers around it faster-moving motifs, like beauty personified collecting ever more acolytes and worshipers.
  — Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 19 July 2024

Last Updated: 11 Dec 2024