How to Use adherent in a Sentence

adherent

1 of 2 noun
  • That is why adherents sometimes wear Hawaiian shirts, say those who track them.
    — New York Times, 3 May 2020
  • And though the rewards of the adherent come from sticking with the sport, boxing is hard to remain in.
    — Emiliano Tahui Gómez, Austin American Statesman, 28 Dec. 2025
  • And adherents of each religion want their church to be the dominant one.
    — George G. Szpiro, Big Think, 9 Apr. 2026
  • But adherents are quick to note that girl dinners are not about deprivation.
    — Jessica Roy, New York Times, 8 July 2023
  • For its adherents, the sport always boils down to calculations of risk.
    — Sacbee.com, 19 Feb. 2026
  • Oaks thanked church adherents for their prayers as the selection process was conducted.
    — Marc Ramirez, USA Today, 14 Oct. 2025
  • His lawyers sought a sentence of no more than 20 years, citing his troubles as the child of a church adherent.
    — Mari Yamaguchi, Los Angeles Times, 21 Jan. 2026
  • But the belief died hard, and photography spurred its adherents on.
    — Cal Revely-Calder, New Yorker, 29 June 2026
  • The teams in this World Series have their share of adherents to such traditions.
    — James Wagner, New York Times, 28 Oct. 2019
  • Prepping has gone mainstream, its adherents no longer fringe actors but quirky soothsayers of sorts.
    — Kate Knibbs, Wired, 16 Apr. 2020
  • He was known as an obsessive adherent to achieving his vision by any means necessary.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 6 Sep. 2023
  • This is a 23% spike, just by altering the definition of who is an adherent.
    — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 Dec. 2022
  • These days, practically the whole thing is a shrine to a one-term president, one that his adherents attend as pilgrims.
    — Curbed, 2 Oct. 2023
  • The idea of giving personhood to nature has been slowly gaining adherents.
    — Clive Thompson, Wired, 17 Dec. 2019
  • Bridgers is a strict adherent to Attenborough’s Law.
    — Walden Green, Pitchfork, 26 June 2026
  • Its adherents promote terrorism and sabotage to incite a race war and to bring about social collapse.
    — Odette Yousef, NPR, 27 May 2026
  • And Trump’s domineering, loutish approach to women spoke to its adherents in a way that few, if any, of his rivals could match.
    — Peter Wehner, The Atlantic, 10 June 2026
  • The problem is that many patients are not adherent, displaying at least one high-risk contact lens behavior, research has shown.
    — Phillip Yuhas, Quartz, 29 Oct. 2019
  • But to many of his adherents, such critiques from journalists and academics served as validation of their beliefs.
    — James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr. 2023
  • Relatives of adherents to the sect have said in media reports that they have been cut off from contacting family members.
    — Billy Perrigo, Time, 20 Feb. 2020
  • Agents described him as an adherent of accelerationism, which seeks to provoke a race war through violence.
    — Aram Roston, USA Today, 8 Aug. 2025
  • Yet adherents have long self-identified as Mormons, so the rebrand felt like a novelty to some members.
    — Konden Smith Hansen, The Conversation, 30 Sep. 2025
  • QAnon, meanwhile, is complicated enough that its own adherents can sometimes barely follow all its ins and outs.
    — Kate Cox, Ars Technica, 1 Aug. 2019
  • The country has a long history of bloody confrontation between adherents of the two religions.
    — The Economist, 8 Aug. 2019
  • As if hours of fasting weren’t enough to pique the appetite, many Ramadan adherents can look forward to the sweet taste of qatayef when the sun finally does set.
    — Jen Rose Smith, CNN, 6 June 2023
  • However, that might not be convincing enough for iOS adherents to jump over to Android.
    — Cameron Faulkner, The Verge, 7 Aug. 2019
  • These pundits are the opposite of adherents; all hail the Incoherents!
    — Thomas Chatterton Williams, Harper's magazine, 20 Jan. 2020
  • And sorry, your beef is a climate risk according to ESG adherent Rabobank.
    — Kenneth Rapoza, Forbes, 1 Aug. 2022
  • Each of these religious traditions urges its adherents to reflect on where they are headed, to return to God, to each other, to their best selves.
    — Letters To The Editor, Hartford Courant, 19 Feb. 2026
  • Pulgarin had his first cup after a kava bar opened behind his hair salon in 2013 and has been an adherent ever since.
    — Ben Crandell, sun-sentinel.com, 21 Apr. 2021

adherent

2 of 2 adjective
  • Here, then, are each of Guest’s features, ranked from least to most adherent to the laws of Guestiness.
    — Anne Victoria Clark, Vulture, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Possibly the odor of night crawlers, leeches and fatheads that attends walleye fishing ensures adherent immunity.
    — Star Tribune, 8 May 2021
  • The drug-discount-card plan, for example, could be designed to test if people are more adherent to medications if they are given a discount, according to the administration official.
    — Stephanie Armour, WSJ, 13 Oct. 2020
  • This particular kit is well-stocked, featuring classic first aid essentials like non-adherent pads, gauze, triple antibiotic ointment and BZK antiseptic wipes.
    — Jessie Quinn, USA Today, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Europe’s regulatory environment and environmental standards could also pose a disproportionate burden for local farmers adherent to the laws, farmers have said.
    — Kate Nishimura, Sourcing Journal, 9 Jan. 2026

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