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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