How to Use follower in a Sentence

follower

noun
  • The band has a large group of followers.
  • The party drew most of its followers from among young people.
  • He had a reputation of being a follower, not a leader.
  • Shay’s followers loved the post and hyped her up in the comments!
    Jacqueline Tempera, Women's Health, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Videos of high school track meets take up the first slots on Philbin’s YouTube channel, which now has more than 6,000 followers.
    Julia Coin, Charlotte Observer, 26 Jan. 2024
  • As fire trucks raced to the scene of the emergency, Ross, who lives across the way from Hill, hopped on social media to give his followers all the tea.
    Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 8 Mar. 2024
  • The idea came from a follower of hers who was a Chipotle employee.
    Linda Chong, Washington Post, 4 Feb. 2023
  • And people can’t get enough of it: The feed has nearly 2.5 million followers.
    Chris Moody, Washington Post, 22 Aug. 2023
  • But both have inspired legions of followers around the world.
    Sean Gregory / Lille, TIME, 28 July 2024
  • The videos showed a different side of Rooney that followers didn’t expect.
    Daysia Tolentino, NBC News, 21 Oct. 2023
  • Even Elon Musk has chimed in, telling his millions of followers, not all of them Russian bots, that the pill makes women fat and sad.
    Pat Beall, Orlando Sentinel, 23 June 2024
  • Some followers stopped to offer him water or to ask for a selfie.
    Ana Ramirez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Mar. 2024
  • Brands cannot pay creators to make content, and the app pays all creators the same rates, regardless of follower count.
    Carly Olson, Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2023
  • But can the rule-follower keep a business that thrives on creativity and expression at the front of the pack?
    Alexandra Sternlicht, Fortune, 1 Mar. 2023
  • To hardcore Mavs fans and/or Luka followers, this won’t be much of a surprise.
    Sportsday Staff, Dallas News, 8 July 2023
  • Needless to say, tons of her followers flocked to her comment section.
    Michelle Lee, Peoplemag, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Over a million followers online, brand deals, A-list stans, Broadway-bound and a new single about to drop.
    Helena Andrews-Dyer, Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2023
  • The tantrums are all the more unjustified in light of @catturd2 crossing the million-follower mark just two weeks after Musk took the reins.
    Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 9 Feb. 2023
  • Ross posted the video to Instagram to give her followers a peek at the post-event ponytail removal.
    Kara Nesvig, Allure, 18 Dec. 2023
  • Danis deleted the August 11 post, but not before it had been saved and re-shared by his followers.
    Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Ultimately, more points will give the side’s followers more to shout about, which is already a lot.
    Henry Flynn, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2024
  • And 13 million followers cheered when Katy Perry caught the #samelove bouquet.
    Maria Yagoda, Peoplemag, 1 Feb. 2024
  • And watching my follower base accept that, and be like, 'That's normal, take care of yourself.
    Julie Mazziotta, Peoplemag, 2 Apr. 2023
  • Lisa also has the most followers for a K-pop artist on Instagram, with a then total of 86.3 million Blinks.
    Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 15 Nov. 2023
  • Edwards told her followers that her first pup, Hatchi, was quite jealous of the new addition.
    Charlotte Walsh, Peoplemag, 8 Sep. 2023
  • The groom, who has over 3 million Instagram followers, even made an appearance at one point in the night.
    Liza Esquibias, Peoplemag, 21 July 2023
  • This is the right to leave Twitter without losing your followers and followees.
    IEEE Spectrum, 5 Sep. 2023
  • Not to be outdone, King is one of the largest creators on social media with over 120 million followers.
    Jon Youshaei, Forbes, 4 May 2023
  • The actress has 181 million followers on the social media platform.
    Jean E. Palmieri, WWD, 17 Oct. 2024
  • The company posted the news to its 3.7 million followers on X — formerly known as Twitter — generating nearly 2 million views within hours.
    Tor Constantino, Mba, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024

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