How to Use zealotry in a Sentence

zealotry

noun

• The great scourges of our politics are zealotry and hypocrisy.
  — John Brummett, Arkansas Online, 16 June 2021
• This is what caused a lot of the trouble in the first place—a lack of understanding of zealotry.
  — Noel Murray, Chron, 10 Apr. 2023
• The Davys wiped away the tears and returned for another two decades-plus of Vikings zealotry.
  — Star Tribune, 10 Sep. 2020
• Greenwald’s not wrong to criticize the zealotry of the Russia pile-on.
  — Simon Van Zuylen-Wood, Daily Intelligencer, 21 Jan. 2018
• Here, Netziv points out the need of an antidote for zealotry.
  — Rabbi Avi Weiss, sun-sentinel.com, 28 June 2021
• Call it zealotry of the self-help TV convert, or whatever.
  — Robyn Bahr, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Oct. 2019
• That zealotry requires shame at one’s station and fear of one’s own death to keep others in their place.
  — Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, 12 July 2018
• What's not such a good thing is the food movement betting its rising stock on anti-GMO zealotry.
  — Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 6 Nov. 2012
• The film is replete with examples of anti-free-speech zealotry.
  — John Fund, National Review, 3 Nov. 2019
• Yet there is a broader lesson in the Libby case about special counsels and zealotry.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 13 Apr. 2018
• Strong is aware of his reputation for artistic zealotry — and to the scoffing that zealotry may elicit, even from his peers.
  — Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Sep. 2022
• And Magnussen, given the broadest of the central roles, pushes Byron’s zealotry past tilt.
  — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 31 Mar. 2021
• At the height of my zealotry, I was convinced any or all of the above scenarios were not only likely, but imminent.
  — Jason Christian, The New Republic, 29 Mar. 2018
• Now, zealotry is not always a bad thing, and, needless to say, there is much to hate in how Trump conducted himself after the 2020 election.
  — Rich Lowry, National Review, 6 Aug. 2023
• The irony is that sometimes their zealotry does backfire on Republicans.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 11 Apr. 2022
• But there has been a discernible anti-immigration zealotry expressed by Grist readers over the last week, in response to this post.
  — Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 24 Mar. 2010
• But the new left has sold the idea of purity to its faithful, a religious zealotry reinforced by loyal pundits.
  — John Kass Chicago Tribune, Star Tribune, 3 Dec. 2020
• The Club for Growth, known for its free-market zealotry, is supporting Mandel and has spent roughly $1.5 million on anti-Vance attack ads.
  — Simon Van Zuylen-Wood, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Jan. 2022
• Both men exude supreme confidence in their judgments, the kind of confidence that inspires zealotry in devotees.
  — John Horgan, Scientific American, 7 Oct. 2020
• The Supreme Court — 2/3 men & 2/3 Catholic — today forced its religious zealotry and bigotry upon an entire nation.
  — Eve Sampson, Detroit Free Press, 28 June 2022
• In a 1962 column skewering not-in-my-backyard zealotry, Mr. Doolittle imagined a zoning fight over the construction of the Taj Mahal.
  — Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 23 Nov. 2023
• Humor is the most resilient enemy of zealotry, which is why so many fanatics have tried to ban or police it, from the original Puritans to the new p.c.
  — Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer, 13 Apr. 2018
• There's not a chance that companies like Amazon would want to come here as long as Kentucky lawmakers are shoving their anti-gay zealotry down our throats.
  — Joseph Gerth, The Courier-Journal, 19 Sep. 2017
• This lurid language is a cousin to the theological zealotry that inspires radicals to lash out against writers.
  — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2022
• Now, as the government battles the more transmissible Omicron, its outbreak response has reached a whole new level of zealotry.
  — Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 24 Jan. 2022
• It’s that kind of vehemence or zealotry, which comes with a point of view and wanting to indoctrinate people with a very polarized and divisive view.
  — Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 18 Mar. 2021
• Swale’s film is full of #MeToo, #TimesUp zealotry that uses mediocre storytelling to push subversive notions.
  — Armond White, National Review, 12 Aug. 2020
• Some of this is on Second Amendment fundamentalists and the politicians who translate their zealotry into law—the rest is on every one of us who has yet to find the courage, the creativity, or the resolve to stop it.
  — Jelani Cobb, The New Yorker, 29 May 2022
• It’s got the sort of zealotry and funk that Pop could only have gotten from fellow artists who worship the Ig, and who seek only to forward his agenda of witty, libidinal lyrics and mood-swing croons and cackles.
  — A.d. Amorosi, Variety, 6 Jan. 2023
• As Álvaro keeps asking questions, the town turns against him, and the narrative morphs into a claustrophobic exploration of religious zealotry and evil.
  — Gabino Iglesias, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 27 Oct 2024