How to Use loyalist in a Sentence

loyalist

noun
  • No one wants to be the last loyalist of a doomed regime.
    Mark Galeotti, CNN, 11 Nov. 2022
  • Many of those are Trump loyalists who also backed Shafer’s bid to overturn Trump’s 2020 loss in the state.
    Nicholas Riccardi and Joey Cappelletti, USA TODAY, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Not just the beating heart of the team, Pelé was also an immense, one-club loyalist.
    Simon Chadwick, The Conversation, 29 Dec. 2022
  • The costs is likely fine for loyalists who know Lexus and its pedigree.
    James Raia, The Mercury News, 29 May 2024
  • This new four-part series charts the rise and fall of the former New York mayor turned Trump loyalist.
    cleveland, 8 Jan. 2023
  • Moïse put loyalist Jeantal Joseph in charge of the brigade and sought to turn it into his private armed force.
    Amanda Coletta, Washington Post, 11 Feb. 2024
  • There was a scheme by studio execs and Hearst loyalists to buy the film to burn the negative.
    Donald Liebenson, Town & Country, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Gohmert isn’t the only loyalist clinging to hope the election isn’t over.
    Elizabeth Thompson, Dallas News, 16 Nov. 2020
  • Meanwhile, Youngkin has not played the part of an angry Trump loyalist.
    The Associated. Press, Arkansas Online, 31 Oct. 2021
  • The abrupt appointment raised concerns that Miller was in place to be a Trump loyalist.
    BostonGlobe.com, 12 May 2021
  • The Marvel fan base, which skews young and loyalist, swarms theaters against all odds.
    Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 20 Dec. 2021
  • Then there are the courts, which the former president stacked with a huge number of loyalists.
    Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2023
  • He has been widely seen as an up-and-coming politician and a Xi loyalist.
    Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Bud Black hasn’t come close to a winning season since 2018 but that’s more on the front office and that’s a closed shop of Monfort loyalists.
    Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Aug. 2023
  • The Patriots loyalist has $100 on Cincinnati to win the Super Bowl.
    John Jurgensen, WSJ, 11 Feb. 2022
  • This four-part profile of the former New York mayor turned Trump loyalist concludes with back-to-back episodes.
    cleveland, 15 Jan. 2023
  • That benefit alone can make the card worth it for Marriott loyalists.
    Ben Luthi, wsj.com, 6 Nov. 2023
  • Some people are fitness loyalists: the Peloton spinners, the barre class girlies, the marathon runners.
    Sara Gaynes Levy, Peoplemag, 26 Oct. 2023
  • Some members of the intelligentsia dismissed the job as a second-rate sop to a loyalist.
    Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 8 Sep. 2022
  • The loyalist of Harries predicted this wayyy before the site launch though.
    Seventeen, 23 Mar. 2022
  • Trump can count on the allegiance of his loyalists more than Biden can be sure of retaining the support of those who voted for him in 2020.
    Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Caddy loyalists won't care much that the handling's klutzy or that the tires try to peel off the rims at a walk or that the front seat is all wrong or that the drivability is below par.
    Csaba Csere, Car and Driver, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Now, Sakan is caught between his exacting nature and a need for more bakery help while loyalists queue at the door.
    Peggy Hernandez, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Sep. 2023
  • That leaves the studio going up against a director who was once one of its steadfast loyalists.
    Vulture, 14 July 2023
  • Miles Franklin, a longtime Android loyalist, was left out of rounds of a popular online game in high school.
    Tim Higgins, WSJ, 8 Jan. 2022
  • Being a Trump loyalist hasn’t always been an easy fit for Issa.
    Michael Smolens Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 May 2021
  • Hunt’s legal team tried to distance him from the type of extreme Trump loyalist who attended the riot.
    Shayna Jacobs, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Apr. 2021
  • The four fringe states These are not the big-ticket targets for the campaigns, but some strategists in the states—and some home-state loyalists—think they were prematurely cast aside.
    Philip Elliott, TIME, 8 Aug. 2024
  • Venezuela’s National Electoral Council, which is stacked with Maduro loyalists, said the incumbent won the election with 52% of the vote.
    Jamey Keaten, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2024
  • But after a week of berating the national retailers, Berry Chantilly loyalists forced Whole Foods to listen to their requests.
    Sabrina Weiss, People.com, 3 Oct. 2024

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