How to Use evangelize in a Sentence

evangelize

verb
  • The missionaries set out to evangelize the world.
  • They were evangelizing about the importance of saving energy.
  • The Guillottes came to evangelize the team - and the sport.
    Anne Branigin, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Mar. 2022
  • The Guillottes came to evangelize the team — and the sport.
    Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2022
  • But your customers may be the ones to evangelize the name.
    Gil Allouche, Forbes, 20 May 2021
  • Not to evangelize to them, not to win them over, but to entertain them.
    Laura Manske, Forbes, 12 June 2022
  • The new Benedict would seek to re-evangelize a Europe that had lost its faith.
    Rachel Donadio, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2022
  • But the man of the moment in the evangelize-for-dollars world isn’t a preacher begging for cash to do God’s work.
    Michael D'antonio, CNN, 3 Aug. 2021
  • Then why isn’t Biden doing more to evangelize this idea?
    Philip Elliott, Time, 24 Oct. 2022
  • Though if any parent finds something that does, then by all means buy—and evangelize—it.
    Sarah Bregel, Glamour, 26 Apr. 2018
  • Employees and customers alike come to hear Ma evangelize for the brand.
    Bill Powell, Newsweek, 4 May 2017
  • The church has loosened its strict rules for those evangelizing.
    Lauren Jackson, New York Times, 10 May 2024
  • Although Love in the Time of Fentanyl is not meant to evangelize, its warts-and-all depiction could be the key to changing minds.
    WIRED, 13 Feb. 2023
  • The project lead needs to evangelize why this change is beneficial for each of the stakeholders and lay out a clear plan on how to get there.
    Peter Nesbitt, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2023
  • The whole point of this showcase, apart from using it to pitch Spielberg's movie, is to evangelize uses of VR beyond the game room.
    Lisa Napoli, chicagotribune.com, 26 Mar. 2018
  • But he was detained again in July 2012 on charges of evangelizing and sentenced to eight years in prison.
    Nicole Blanchard, idahostatesman, 19 Mar. 2018
  • In short, should the alt-right look like Nazis to appear strong and get straight to the point, or should the alt-right not look like Nazis in order to more successfully evangelize for the cause?
    Jane Coaston, Vox, 10 Aug. 2018
  • When not evangelizing about four-door coupes, he can be found watching The Real Housewives with his two cats.
    Daniel Golson, Car and Driver, 10 May 2019
  • Get them excited about you—and motivated to want to buy from you and evangelize your brand.
    Shep Hyken, Forbes, 24 July 2022
  • As a young man, Benzion evangelized the views of Ze’ev Jabotinsky, the leader of the right-wing Revisionist movement.
    Ruth Margalit, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2023
  • The group welcomes anyone who wants to learn more about the ancient traditions but does not evangelize or seek out members.
    Amy Bizzarri, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Aug. 2022
  • Gen Z has now adopted 3D avatars and starts to evangelize and care about them as their second virtual being.
    Cathy Hackl, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2021
  • Users evangelize on what may be the best consumer value in America.
    Ben Fritz, WSJ, 16 May 2018
  • The book, and the education campaign it was launched with, tried to evangelize a more singing-centric society.
    Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 9 Apr. 2020
  • In real life, the actor who plays that drag queen, RuPaul, has evangelized a very similar doctrine of self-love—as well as the art of cross-dressing.
    Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 15 Jan. 2020
  • But the term now refers to products that aren’t just best-sellers but actually are evangelized by those who use them, as Zan Romanoff wrote in a piece for Racked.
    Cheryl Wischhover, Vox, 12 Dec. 2018
  • That patient was a pastor who had left South Kivu to evangelize in Butembo, a center of the current Ebola outbreak.
    David McKenzie, CNN, 31 July 2019
  • One of those domes can be found perched on the roof the SAT itself, which has pioneered and evangelized the communal immersive model since 2011.
    Ben Croll, Variety, 8 Apr. 2023
  • If your own employees won’t evangelize your brand, don’t expect customers to do so.
    Shep Hyken, Forbes, 12 Sep. 2021
  • The event helped give rise to Southern hip-hop and acts like OutKast, who were evangelized beyond Atlanta as attendees took their music back home to their cities after the event.
    Lisa Respers France, CNN, 20 Mar. 2024

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