How to Use acolyte in a Sentence

acolyte

noun
  • For acolytes of the craze, such high-brow bottles are worth the hefty price.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 3 Dec. 2019
  • Offshoots rose and fell in the next decades as acolytes worked to keep the book in print.
    — Sam Kestenbaum, New York Times, 7 June 2018
  • Fuentes needed a name for this group of acolytes who showed up at Kirk’s events.
    — Antonia Hitchens, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2026
  • Nahi, Naru's acolyte at the time, had eyes swollen and rimmed red from weeping.
    — Seija Rankin, EW.com, 21 Sep. 2021
  • When the commercial web was new, its acolytes were eager to show it off.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2017
  • So good thing Potter acolyte Zhang was there to break the news to him.
    — Ashley Hoffman, Time, 11 July 2017
  • There’s no worse fate than being purchased by the gun lobby and its acolytes.
    — cleveland, 7 Oct. 2019
  • In fact, the supreme leader's acolytes have for years praised his spartan lifestyle.
    — Kim Hjelmgaard, USA Today, 19 June 2025
  • Ham could be the next Budenzholer acolyte to get to run his own show.
    — Christian Clark, NOLA.com, 4 Sep. 2020
  • This time, though, Roth’s allies and acolytes would need to put on the show all by themselves.
    — Hannah Gold, Harper's Magazine, 3 Nov. 2023
  • Trump and his acolytes better know how to rule the executive branch.
    — Liana Fix, Foreign Affairs, 22 Mar. 2024
  • The song is an anthem for a lot of young musical-theater acolytes.
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 20 Mar. 2026
  • Irving was the most obvious acolyte.
    — Literary Hub, 21 Apr. 2026
  • Kirk had been another eager acolyte.
    — Andrew Cockburn, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
  • Some acolytes have even gotten tattoos of the studio’s logo.
    — David Remnick, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
  • In Harmon's rants, his fans—equal parts acolyte and troll—are always 15.
    — Sean O'Neal, GQ, 30 May 2018
  • Both of you have acolytes, respectively.
    — Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Surrounding him were acolytes who tinkered with his outfit.
    — Literary Hub, 13 Feb. 2026
  • And when the acolyte comes to appreciate the same art as the instructor?
    — Julie Belcove, Robb Report, 16 May 2021
  • But a large and vocal contingent of Allen acolytes blocked that motion.
    — Alexei Koseff, sacbee, 6 May 2018
  • The big man, himself by now somewhat fallen on hard times, recorded by the little acolyte.
    — Michael Hofmann, The New York Review of Books, 4 May 2023
  • Of course, not every Musk fan is as fervent an acolyte as Ocean and Gomez.
    — Bijan Stephen, The Verge, 26 June 2018
  • The gilded world of Felix and his acolytes seems unattainable, but then fortune smiles.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 18 Nov. 2023
  • Grace was an acolyte at Lord's Chapel, wise in the ways of liturgical response.
    — CBS News, 5 Dec. 2025
  • And Guthrie has been gone well beyond a half-century, which leaves peers (very few) and acolytes (very many).
    — Houston Chronicle, 5 Sep. 2019
  • The acolyte is pressing her hero for details so Tucker can get in touch with her life emotions in the booth.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 13 Mar. 2022
  • The little acolyte, known for nothing else, just for talking to the big man, bringing him out, leading him on.
    — Michael Hofmann, The New York Review of Books, 4 May 2023
  • The event was co-opted as a starring vehicle for the president with acolytes as co-stars.
    — Christine Ledbetter, Chicago Tribune, 4 Jan. 2026
  • This isn’t a rally in front of a Confederate flag-waving crowd of acolytes.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 15 May 2024
  • The story follows a boy acolyte who lives with the old monk in a sort of micro-temple floating on a mountain lake.
    — The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2021

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