How to Use apologist in a Sentence

apologist

noun

• What will such apologists say in this case when the black man is police?
  — NOLA.com, 27 June 2017
• The point here isn’t to be an apologist for the UO program’s lack of performance.
  — John Canzano, oregonlive, 6 Dec. 2020
• And now the apologists want to tell us the Los Angeles Dodgers are simply too rich for the Rockies to beat.
  — Kyle Newman, The Denver Post, 5 Aug. 2019
• This, to the minds of Trump apologists, was the reason Americans elected him to this role.
  — Philip Elliott, Time, 20 Jan. 2018
• On Thursday night, a ragged band of apologists for the president* fanned out to the cable shows.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 12 Jan. 2018
• Trump and his apologists and enablers should take note, because this does not bode well for them.
  — Leonard Pitts, Alaska Dispatch News, 22 Aug. 2017
• O’Reilly had been a vehement apologist for the youth’s killer.
  — Rich Benjamin, The New Yorker, 25 Apr. 2017
• But he is reviled in many quarters as a Trump apologist.
  — Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2022
• The apologists for despotism may appear to have won the battle, but not the argument.
  — Christian Caryl, New Republic, 27 Oct. 2017
• All in all, there seem to be three types of Joe Biden apologist in the press, each with a different style and motivation.
  — Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 8 Mar. 2024
• And why, the government and its apologists keep asking, don’t the people trust us to tell the truth about this most garish of public crimes?
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 26 Oct. 2017
• Ghobash is not an apologist for Islam because there is no need.
  — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2017
• Handke's prize caused a storm of protest: a strong supporter of the Serbs during the 1990s Balkan wars, he has been called an apologist for Serbian war crimes.
  — CBS News, 8 Oct. 2020
• Ham and his brethren are creationists and Christian apologists who believe that the Earth is only 6,000 years old.
  — The Washington Post, AL.com, 24 May 2017
• Still, Russia’s brazenness is raising the costs of being a Putin apologist.
  — The Economist, 28 Mar. 2018
• You’re seen by your more hawkish peers as an apologist for the Chinese government.
  — Annabelle Timsit, Quartz, 17 May 2021
• Wright is both an analyst of Biblical texts and an apologist for them.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2023
• Sox apologists can’t blame injuries for chronic brain cramps.
  — David Haugh, chicagotribune.com, 13 May 2018
• To apologists, that may come across as a contradiction.
  — Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press, 8 Sep. 2017
• There can, of course, be no moral equivalence between Stevens and a slavery apologist like Wigfall.
  — Andrew Ferguson, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2020
• Nor are video games, violent movies, or any of the other culprits the NRA and its apologists like to cite in their attempt to divert our attention.
  — Andrew Romanoff, The Denver Post, 12 Aug. 2019
• Dan Orlovsky, known as a frequent Carson Wentz apologist, had a simple response.
  — Matthew Vantryon, The Indianapolis Star, 12 Jan. 2022
• The right-wing apologist for, or ally of, Communist regimes or Communist-like regimes.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 6 Jan. 2023
• That’s evident in every excuse made by the nation’s apologists for its lengthy list of human rights abuses, both here and abroad.
  — Jamil Smith, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2023
• As is the case with natives, Stewart is an Oakland loyalist, an apologist with a keen ear for disrespect of our city.
  — Marcus Thompson Ii, The Mercury News, 28 Mar. 2017
• The apologists paid to kiss Elway’s rings will tell you the Broncos got down and dirty in free agency, emphasizing substance over sizzle.
  — Mark Kiszla, The Denver Post, 11 Mar. 2017
• Our President is a hate group apologist who tries to ban refugees from seeking asylum in our country, simply because of their faith.
  — Redbook Editors, Redbook, 18 Oct. 2017
• Near the end of his life, C. S. Lewis, although well-known as a Christian author and apologist, wondered whether his books would continue to find an audience.
  — Joseph Loconte, National Review, 7 Dec. 2020
• Marine Le Pen purged Vichy remnants and Nazi apologists from the party, including booting out her father in 2015.
  — Annabelle Timsit, Washington Post, 28 June 2024
• Perhaps now, the gun apologists may have to rethink their passionate defense of this favorite gun used by school shooters in the massacre of innocents.
  — Chicago Tribune, 4 May 2024

Last Updated: 22 Oct 2024