How to Use evangelist in a Sentence

evangelist

noun
  • But for true evangelists, the dream is for self-learning to do more than that—to add more butter to the slice of toast.
    Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 16 Feb. 2024
  • His only companions are a nurse and a young evangelist who shows up at his doorstep.
    Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2022
  • Zhao seemed entranced by Musk’s mystique as an evangelist of free speech.
    Shawn Tully, Fortune, 2 June 2023
  • Bryan Stallings is the chief evangelist at Lucid Software.
    Jessica Guistolise and Bryan Stallings, Quartz, 17 Oct. 2022
  • Barnes became a short-week evangelist, and a global movement was born.
    Meghan M. Biro, Forbes, 25 Aug. 2022
  • Dorsey, a Bitcoin evangelist, announced in 2018 that Cash App users would be able to buy and sell the cryptocurrency.
    Ben Weiss, Fortune Crypto, 12 Apr. 2023
  • In an essay, King wrote about a guest evangelist speaking at their Sunday School and inviting children to join the church.
    Alex Sundby, CBS News, 29 June 2023
  • Soni, the first leader of the foundation, has become an evangelist of sorts for bringing in new private sources of funding for the WHO.
    Thalia Beaty, BostonGlobe.com, 20 July 2023
  • Nguyen got into pickleball in 2019 and has become an evangelist for the sport.
    Carly Olson, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2023
  • Butter evangelist Joelle Mertzel is spreading the word.
    Kristina Peterson, wsj.com, 27 Apr. 2023
  • Mars evangelist and SpaceX founder Elon Musk may soon have an easier time going green.
    Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 7 Mar. 2022
  • It’s almost like being an evangelist, or a warrior, for love.
    The New York Times, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2022
  • That’s a ghost Charles will have to confront as king, chief executive, and chief evangelist for an ancient brand.
    Larry Edelman, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Sep. 2022
  • Cliff Cavin, an artist and evangelist, blessed the ceremony, those assembled and his cousin Carl.
    Vincent T. Davis, San Antonio Express-News, 3 Jan. 2022
  • An evangelist who promises a convert a place in heaven risks having the conversion struck down as void.
    Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Wu has emerged as the concept’s highest-profile evangelist.
    Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2021
  • One of his cousins, Jimmy Swaggart, would go on to become a popular TV evangelist.
    Brandon Griggs, CNN, 28 Oct. 2022
  • Musk paints himself a free-speech evangelist, but inclusion has never been a strong point in matters of business.
    WIRED, 18 Nov. 2022
  • About a third of the time is working internally, a third as an evangelist for B Corps, and a third working with graduate students.
    Emily Farra, Vogue, 9 Nov. 2021
  • And their voices have, slowly, begun to rise above crypto’s evangelist din.
    Steven Zeitchik, Washington Post, 3 June 2022
  • The results are a little inconvenient for the EV evangelist.
    Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Above all, James is a chipper evangelist for blockchain and cryptocurrency.
    Ian Beacock, The New Republic, 22 Feb. 2022
  • Weiss, whose title is chief evangelist, noted that his grandfather toiled on a job into his 80s.
    Donna Owens, baltimoresun.com, 10 Dec. 2021
  • As a teenaged church organist in New York City, then on the road accompanying evangelist singers.
    George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 June 2022
  • This last point has recently transformed me into a pole evangelist.
    Tiney Ricciardi, The Denver Post, 8 Apr. 2024
  • Over the past few years, Abdiel has become both a hustle preservationist and a hustle evangelist.
    New York Times, 7 July 2022
  • Tallamy has become a leading evangelist for the return of native plants and trees that can support birds, bees and other essential wildlife.
    Katherine Roth, oregonlive, 22 Apr. 2023
  • Young has been an evangelist for high-resolution streaming for years.
    Chris Morris, Fortune, 13 Mar. 2024
  • The third was a commission from Albert Barnes, the American collector and evangelist for modern art.
    Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2022
  • Darryl Phillips, 48, is a film producer and a test strip evangelist trying to change that reality.
    Sharon Otterman, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2023

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