How to Use proselytize in a Sentence

proselytize

verb

• He uses his position to proselytize for the causes that he supports.
• Smith proselytizes about love and lust, reading from the Book of Psalms.
  — Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 23 Mar. 2023
• The challenge is to shine a light on the threat, without helping them to proselytize their views.
  — Ellen McGirt, Fortune, 24 Aug. 2017
• In Marx and Engels's view, the phrase is used to proselytize worldwide class conflict.
  — Anthony Leonardi, Washington Examiner, 9 Feb. 2020
• Mayahuel swiftly became one of the best mezcal bars in the country, and Ward would do as much as anyone to proselytize for it.
  — Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 23 Dec. 2021
• Why did Carson feel so strongly the need to proselytize the wonders of wonder?
  — Anelise Chen, The Atlantic, 17 May 2022
• And the justices had to decide whether the First Amendment protected their right to proselytize like that.
  — Lillian Cunningham, Washington Post, 29 Jan. 2018
• For some Christians, the path ahead is simple: Pray, proselytize and prepare your hearts.
  — Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2022
• The idea is you’re supposed to go back to Australia and proselytize about America.
  — Eric Johnson, Recode, 6 Dec. 2018
• Sikhism is a non-proselytizing faith that does not seek converts.
  — Editors, USA TODAY, 4 May 2017
• Want: Ray Kurzweil to proselytize about climate change.
  — David Dobbs, WIRED, 29 Jan. 2011
• But the one inviolable rule is that they are not allowed to proselytize.
  — The New York Times, NOLA.com, 30 May 2017
• Jigsaw has, by now, been unmasked as John Kramer, and spends most of the movie in a sit-down with Wahlberg’s detective, which gives him a lot of time to proselytize about the value of life and speak in riddles.
  — Jordan Crucchiola, Vulture, 1 June 2024
• While on the show, Quigley was a dance captain and a judge, and, the lawsuit alleges, often proselytizing her Christian beliefs.
  — Vulture, 1 Aug. 2023
• Then there was another important question: if there were aliens, who would get the chance to proselytize first?
  — Amelia Soth, JSTOR Daily, 27 June 2024
• Pesner added that the purpose of these chaplains is not to proselytize or intervene in people’s lives, but simply to be available at the polls.
  — Dallas News, 7 Nov. 2022
• William made his request to proselytize through an interpreter, but the interpreter and the khan were drunk, and William did not get a definite answer.
  — Valerie Hansen, Foreign Affairs, 6 Sep. 2022
• In the meantime, those who have boarded the crypto-train frequently proselytize to friends and family.
  — Teddy Wayne, New York Times, 3 Aug. 2017
• Their role is not to proselytize nor impose their personal views on anyone.
  — Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 30 Nov. 2022
• The television or movies that do very often proselytize.
  — Michael Schneider, Variety, 13 June 2023
• Their goal is not to proselytize; Jains don’t practice conversion.
  — Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2021
• Best then, to use the campaign to proselytize for the party’s economic vision, and let Trump’s deficiencies speak for themselves.
  — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 1 Nov. 2017
• The hand-waving, proselytizing Symon keeps up his energy like a preacher, one bringing home the gospel of healthy and flavorful eating.
  — Marc Bona, cleveland.com, 29 Jan. 2018
• The Visitor Complex, of course, is not reticent in its efforts to proselytize and promote.
  — Edward Rothstein, WSJ, 24 Aug. 2022
• Alabama’s coach is rarely shy about proselytizing from his bully pulpit, and, in fact, his stumping for a ninth conference game dates to 2012.
  — USA TODAY, 30 May 2023
• Thus their only apparent interactions with non-Mormon Finns are the awkward ones of trying to proselytize to total strangers, whether on the street or going door-to-door.
  — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 24 Jan. 2022
• By the end, the witnesses who’ve undergone these experiences are proselytizing, with beatific smiles, for the eternal life of the soul.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 31 Oct. 2023
• The LeBarons have long sought connections with fellow Mexicans to proselytize about their beliefs.
  — Rebecca Janzen, The Conversation, 6 Nov. 2019
• Larung Gar has become one of the most influential institutions in the Tibetan world, the teachings of its senior monks praised, debated and proselytized from here to the Himalayas.
  — Edward Wong, New York Times, 28 Nov. 2016
• This news painted Freeze, who had proselytized as a God-fearing and Jesus-loving man throughout his ascent in coaching, as a huckstering fraud.
  — Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2019

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024