How to Use crusader in a Sentence

crusader

noun

• The loss of their only child shattered the couple’s lives and turned them into crusaders.
  — Christina Fuoco-Karasinski, Peoplemag, 25 May 2023
• Michael Keaton shows up as a certain caped crusader from DC movies past.
  — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 30 Dec. 2022
• By the time of the moral crusader’s death, public opinion was changing.
  — Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 June 2023
• But the new crop of antitrust crusaders has run up against the U.S. court system, where some judges have been skeptical of the new approach.
  — Gerrit De Vynck, Washington Post, 4 Aug. 2023
• Riley, a Kansas City native, said her mother was a one-of-a-kind crusader for what was right and just.
  — J.m. Banks, Kansas City Star, 28 Apr. 2024
• The caped crusader is being honored with his very own day soon, a tradition that dates to 2014.
  — Dina Kaur, The Arizona Republic, 8 Sep. 2023
• For decades, American moral crusaders have tried to keep material away from the young in the name of protecting them.
  — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2023
• Trying to grow a business in the midst of such rhetoric would prepare the Warner brothers to deal with industry censors and moral crusaders.
  — Chris Yogerst, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Apr. 2023
• Ares is the god of war, known in the popular imagination as a crusader, unafraid of what stands before them.
  — Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 20 Oct. 2022
• Ian Cain, a fellow crypto crusader and Quincy city councilor, came in third with around 9%.
  — Mike Deehan, Axios, 4 Sep. 2024
• But the village has a crusader castle, which is a big tourism attraction, and that’s where his adventure takes place.
  — Martin Dale, Variety, 9 Dec. 2022
• The pic is a coming-of-age tale about a 12-year-old boy who moves to Jordan from abroad and discovers a crusader castle, called Montreal.
  — Martin Dale, Variety, 9 Dec. 2022
• Paul Muni appears as the great crusader, working against the petty hypocrisies of his time, and coming to the rescue of a man falsely accused of treason.
  — Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2023
• Meanwhile, across the diamond, a masked crusader was making plays on defense to help the Guardians escape danger early on in their 8-2 win against the Blue Jays.
  — Joe Noga, cleveland, 8 May 2022
• Others, irate about the hypocrisy that often accompanied both the beacon and the crusader personas, will shrug and say good riddance.
  — Andreas Kluth, The Mercury News, 25 June 2024
• Nobody tweets, and Donald Trump’s existence was avoided thanks to the actions of a gay Black anti-racist crusader.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 21 Sep. 2020
• Keaton’s caped crusader, brought out of retirement via the reliable sci-fi magic of time travel, plays a supporting role in The Flash.
  — Vulture, 25 Aug. 2023
• His image as a righteous crusader was already showing its age in 2016.
  — Kara Voght, Rolling Stone, 23 Dec. 2022
• Anthony Comstock was a very famous moral crusader based in New York [City] in the mid-19th century.
  — Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 28 Apr. 2023
• There’s a logic to it: The anti-vaccine, anti-Ukraine crusader no longer fits in with the modern Democratic Party.
  — Nr Editors, National Review, 20 Oct. 2023
• Already, jurors have heard about the Trump 2016 campaign’s dealings with tabloid publishers, excitable lawyers, and alt-right crusaders.
  — Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 3 May 2024
• Additionally, the borders on mainland Europe seemed to indicate a time before the end of the Hundred Years’ War, and crusader strongholds were still present in the east.
  — Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Nov. 2023
• On the other end is St. Pierre Church, already hundreds of years old when Christian crusaders oversaw an expansion in the early-12th century.
  — Salwan Georges, Washington Post, 24 Feb. 2023
• And yet, although plenty of one-time free-speech crusaders have cheered the suppression of pro-Palestinian dissent, such hypocrisy has been far from universal.
  — Eric Levitz, Vox, 15 May 2024
• Schools have long been the battleground, dating at least to the 1970s, when anti-gay crusader Anita Bryant led a national movement to save children from gay adults.
  — Jeremy Schwartz, ProPublica, 7 Feb. 2022
• This was the Lula from the Pop-art poster, the leftist crusader who had enthralled Brazilians since his first appearance on the national stage, forty years earlier.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2023
• So, that’s four strong reasons for optimism in the spread of employee ownership from Corey Rosen, perhaps the field’s leading crusader for more than 40 years.
  — Mary Josephs, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2022
• The union hired defense attorney Clarence Darrow, the famous crusader for the downtrodden.
  — Christopher Goffard, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2024
• Her decision became a turning point for the civil rights movement and propelled her to become a crusader for justice for her son and for others.
  — Christine Pelisek, PEOPLE.com, 6 Jan. 2022
• In their rush to disempower midwives, anti-midwife crusaders inadvertently created a climate in which neonatal care is less safe for all birthing parents.
  — Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 18 June 2024

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024