How to Use apologist in a Sentence

apologist

noun
  • Once again, the bullish apologists will say this is the big one.
    — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 3 Nov. 2024
  • The singer was an apologist for some of the world’s worst regimes.
    — John Fund, National Review, 30 Sep. 2024
  • What will such apologists say in this case when the black man is police?
    — NOLA.com, 27 June 2017
  • Biden and his apologists tout job growth and a record stock market.
    — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 11 Jan. 2025
  • Trump and his apologists and enablers should take note, because this does not bode well for them.
    — Leonard Pitts, Alaska Dispatch News, 22 Aug. 2017
  • Sox apologists can’t blame injuries for chronic brain cramps.
    — David Haugh, chicagotribune.com, 13 May 2018
  • Ghobash is not an apologist for Islam because there is no need.
    — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2017
  • We will not be gulled by the frauds and falsehoods of the Kremlin’s apologists.
    — Lloyd J. Austin Iii, Foreign Affairs, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Being a Nicky apologist, that’s brave.
    — Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 4 June 2026
  • O’Reilly had been a vehement apologist for the youth’s killer.
    — Rich Benjamin, The New Yorker, 25 Apr. 2017
  • Trump feeds on positive feedback and even some of his longtime apologists are starting to have enough.
    — Philip Elliott, Time, 18 Dec. 2025
  • The apologists for despotism may appear to have won the battle, but not the argument.
    — Christian Caryl, New Republic, 27 Oct. 2017
  • Wright is both an analyst of Biblical texts and an apologist for them.
    — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2023
  • On Thursday night, a ragged band of apologists for the president* fanned out to the cable shows.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 12 Jan. 2018
  • College apologists may not care about the vanishing summer job.
    — Ryan Craig, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026
  • You’re seen by your more hawkish peers as an apologist for the Chinese government.
    — Annabelle Timsit, Quartz, 17 May 2021
  • The point here isn’t to be an apologist for the UO program’s lack of performance.
    — John Canzano, oregonlive, 6 Dec. 2020
  • Guests have included a slavery apologist, as well as a pastor who believes women should not have the right to vote.
    — Elena Moore, NPR, 10 Sep. 2025
  • As the news broke, Hollywood moguls refused to have anything to do with this Nazi apologist.
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2024
  • This, to the minds of Trump apologists, was the reason Americans elected him to this role.
    — Philip Elliott, Time, 20 Jan. 2018
  • And why, the government and its apologists keep asking, don’t the people trust us to tell the truth about this most garish of public crimes?
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 26 Oct. 2017
  • And why are there so many apologists for the rich who aren’t rich themselves but consistently defend the right of the rich to be undertaxed?
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 22 Feb. 2026
  • That’s evident in every excuse made by the nation’s apologists for its lengthy list of human rights abuses, both here and abroad.
    — Jamil Smith, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2023
  • Still, Russia’s brazenness is raising the costs of being a Putin apologist.
    — The Economist, 28 Mar. 2018
  • Needless to say, the terrorist groupie’s apologists at Brown were apoplectic that this savage had been tossed out of the country.
    — Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 19 Mar. 2025
  • All in all, there seem to be three types of Joe Biden apologist in the press, each with a different style and motivation.
    — Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 8 Mar. 2024
  • Trump will destroy his reputation and loose [sic] his entire base, shills and apologists included.
    — Kate Plummer, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Oct. 2025
  • There can, of course, be no moral equivalence between Stevens and a slavery apologist like Wigfall.
    — Andrew Ferguson, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2020
  • Inside of tech, many bubble apologists acknowledge the downsides.
    — Lila Shroff, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2026
  • The right-wing apologist for, or ally of, Communist regimes or Communist-like regimes.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 6 Jan. 2023

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