How to Use televangelist in a Sentence
televangelist
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Here’s a look at the life of televangelist Pat Robertson.
— CNN, 11 Mar. 2022 -
The white-haired televangelist was dressed in a sporty blue hoodie and a white baseball cap with a cross design.
— USA TODAY, 11 May 2018 -
The state has sought to replace the statue with one of the late televangelist Billy Graham.
— NBC News, 16 Jan. 2021 -
By the 1990s, Pat Robertson, the televangelist, had become a key leader of the movement.
— Linda K. Wertheimer, The New Republic, 30 May 2023 -
The lawsuit alleges Angley made Miller lie on a bed while the televangelist massaged him.
— Fox News, 25 Aug. 2018 -
Famed televangelist Jim Bakker went to prison in 1989 for fraud related to church fundraising.
— Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2022 -
Young people may not know there was a televangelist named Jim Bakker, married to a woman named Tammy Faye.
— Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 22 June 2022 -
Oral Roberts, named for a televangelist, does not shrink from its identity.
— Nathan Baird, cleveland, 19 Mar. 2021 -
The televangelist Jerry Falwell Sr. held a rally to defend the home.
— NBC news, 12 Nov. 2021 -
One of his cousins is the televangelist Jimmy Swaggart.
— Neil Shah, WSJ, 28 Oct. 2022 -
This is where the overlap with Osteen-style televangelists is most potent.
— Emily Todd Vanderwerff, Vox, 19 Aug. 2019 -
Get ready to buckle up and hear about how Jesus is inside you, because that’s just how a musical about televangelists written by a bunch of gay guys is gonna go.
— Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 22 Mar. 2024 -
West has even taken Sunday Service on tour these last few months, and plans on making more stops with televangelist Joel Osteen.
— Paula Rogo, Essence, 26 Dec. 2019 -
The school was co-founded by his father, the late Rev. Jerry Falwell Sr., a prominent televangelist, in 1971.
— Susan Svrluga, Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2023 -
In recent years, Sabry has lodged complaints against actors, televangelists, puppeteers, and pop stars alike.
— Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 4 Dec. 2018 -
Deion was in town, away from his duties at the time as a pro football player in the nation’s capital, for one of famed televangelists Paula and Randy White’s gospel extravaganzas.
— Tyler R. Tynes, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2023 -
Kapranos is pacing the halls, gee-ing himself up for his big performance as a televangelist leader.
— Eve Barlow, GQ, 7 Feb. 2018 -
Advertisement Jim Bakker, a televangelist, spent time in prison for fraud.
— Matthew Martinez, star-telegram, 29 May 2018 -
The hat is all of these things: sports announcer, televangelist, carnival barker, crooner on the village square.
— Steve Rushin, SI.com, 4 July 2016 -
But this was Tammy Faye Bakker, the infamous televangelist recognized more for her heavy makeup than the fact that her husband, Jim, stole millions from his own parishioners.
— Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2021 -
John Oliver spent an entire episode skewering televangelists who get people to send them what adds up to millions and millions of dollars.
— Gary Levin, USA TODAY, 13 Feb. 2018 -
But Texas televangelist Gloria Copeland thinks there's nothing to worry about.
— The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 9 Feb. 2018 -
But Texas televangelist Gloria Copeland thinks there’s nothing to worry about.
— Marwa Eltagouri, Washington Post, 6 Feb. 2018 -
In 2013, her husband Kenneth Copeland, also a televangelist, was criticized when the family's North Texas megachurch found itself at the center of a measles outbreak.
— The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 9 Feb. 2018 -
In 2013, her husband, Kenneth Copeland, also a televangelist, was criticized when the family’s North Texas megachurch found itself at the center of a measles outbreak.
— Marwa Eltagouri, Washington Post, 6 Feb. 2018 -
The show tells the story of a world-famous televangelist family with a long tradition of deviance, greed and charitable work.
— Joe Otterson, Variety, 27 June 2022 -
Joe Friday and his hip new sidekick nab a pagan televangelist in Los Angeles.
— Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2019 -
Then Stephen Milling, as the high priest Sarastro, saunters along a passerelle with a microphone in his fist, part smooth-sermonizing televangelist, part corporate boss.
— Vulture, 23 May 2023 -
Inevitably, the evening takes a dark and bloody turn; and eventually, the original sextet are joined by new arrivals, including Johnny Knoxville as a fiery televangelist.
— Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2020 -
Robertson, one of the most iconic televangelists in history, was born in Lexington, Virginia, in 1930.
— Timothy H.j. Nerozzi Fox News, Fox News, 23 Dec. 2023
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