How to Use crusade in a Sentence

crusade

1 of 2 noun
  • At that point, the next crusade would be announced.
    — Literary Hub, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Kyle goes so far as to say there seems to be a crusade against Kathy.
    — Dana Feldman, Peoplemag, 28 Sep. 2022
  • Her crusade has been to avenge him — so what does that moment mean to her?
    — Hunter Ingram, Variety, 30 June 2023
  • Crude emails reveal the nasty side of a beach city’s crusade to halt growth.
    — Los Angeles Times, 15 Nov. 2022
  • Now, the two of them are on a crusade few others in the sport would embark on.
    — Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 22 Nov. 2022
  • Famines, pestilence, crusades, and war.
    — Greg Grandin september 23, Literary Hub, 23 Sep. 2025
  • My years-long crusade to end the plague of blues in Destiny 2 is over.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2023
  • The label then embarked on a bizarre crusade against plus-size women.
    — Oscar Holland, CNN, 29 Sep. 2022
  • So, that’s always been part of my crusade so to speak - just to knock down those barriers.
    — Jim Ryan, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2023
  • His has been a one-man crusade against complacency.
    — Sam Lee, New York Times, 25 May 2026
  • Yet the sincerity of her crusade comes through, too.
    — Judy Berman, Time, 12 Nov. 2025
  • But their crusade gained a prime-time spotlight when Hamlin's life was saved on the field that day.
    — Stephanie Kuzydym, The Courier-Journal, 29 Mar. 2023
  • This economic crusade will harm the workers and non-rich it is supposed to help.
    — Veronique De Rugy, Oc Register, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Miami is not alone in the crusade to take pitch calling from the catcher’s hands.
    — Justice Delos Santos, Mercury News, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Their revenge plot is less a righteous up-yours to those above and more a personal crusade.
    — Vulture, 26 Mar. 2023
  • Yet for nearly a decade, there has been a crusade against yeshivas in New York.
    — Sheva Tauby, WSJ, 15 Sep. 2022
  • Thereafter, the two would go on to continue their crusade for justice.
    — Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence, 22 Nov. 2023
  • But the one that really is my crusade is the VFX team.
    — Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 11 June 2026
  • Billy Graham held a crusade, and Bob Hope made a tour stop there as well. Between those headline-grabbing events lie high school football games.
    — Steve Straessle, Arkansas Online, 5 Dec. 2022
  • Christensen, a chemical engineer by day, has been on his wing crusade for years.
    — Ted Anthony, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Feb. 2023
  • For three years as mayor of Salem, Kim Driscoll led a fruitless crusade.
    — Andrew Brinker, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Dec. 2022
  • Christensen, a chemical engineer by day, has been on his crusade for years.
    — Azure Gilman, Fortune, 10 Feb. 2023
  • But what concerns us more over here is Harry’s crusade against Murdoch.
    — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Bonta now has company in his antitrust crusade.
    — Rebecca Keegan, NBC news, 27 Mar. 2026
  • And Jamie is once again distracted by a crusade that the plot will never permit to flourish.
    — Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 4 Feb. 2023
  • The electorate isn’t demanding a crusade.
    — Güney Yıldız, Forbes.com, 24 Jan. 2026
  • Lindell said his crusade against electronic voting machines will just be part of his platform.
    — Steve Karnowski, Fortune, 11 Dec. 2025
  • Remarkably, there is even talk of Maryland joining that crusade.
    — Peter Jensen, Baltimore Sun, 3 Aug. 2025
  • Since her husband’s death, Crawford has been part of a local crusade to bring awareness about fentanyl.
    — Gromer Jeffers Jr., Dallas News, 17 Sep. 2023
  • So far, that crusade has not changed the likelihood of big losses for the GOP.
    — Juan Williams, Washington Post, 7 Jan. 2026

crusade

2 of 2 verb
  • Franco, who was black and a lesbian, crusaded for black and gay causes.
    — Sergio Ramalho, The Seattle Times, 14 Jan. 2019
  • Most of your career has been spent crusading against the corporate world.
    — Tj Kliebhan, Chicago Reader, 24 Apr. 2018
  • Stockmann starts crusading to get the baths shut down, cleaned up, and rebuilt with safety in mind.
    — Chicago Reader, 5 Apr. 2018
  • Tony is the crusading truth-seeker, Mira the naive do-gooder.
    — Hillary Kelly, Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2023
  • Hank Hunt had long crusaded for the law, traveling the country to promote it.
    — Kevin Diaz, Houston Chronicle, 16 Feb. 2018
  • Carol Falkowski spent decades crusading against the spread of illicit drugs.
    — Sarah Horner, Twin Cities, 22 Jan. 2017
  • But this 1977 gem isn’t an in-your-face, crusading political film.
    — G. Allen Johnson, SFChronicle.com, 18 Dec. 2019
  • Grigoriadis also spends hours with students who claim to have been falsely accused, as well as with their crusading parents.
    — Michelle Goldberg, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2017
  • Warren crusaded against the bill on the Senate floor anyway, but only two Democrats joined her in voting against it.
    — Charles Homans, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2017
  • One crusading doctor made big scientific claims, but academic researchers steered clear of the idea.
    — Julie Rehmeyer, Slate Magazine, 12 June 2017
  • For more than 20 years, ministers have played an invaluable role in crusading against street violence in the city.
    — Adrian Walker, BostonGlobe.com, 4 June 2018
  • The massacre reignited the debate over gun violence and spurred many Parkland high schoolers to crusade for gun control.
    — Sean Rossman, USA TODAY, 7 Mar. 2018
  • The money was intended to fulfil a crusading mission of expanding access to health care.
    — Hettie O'Brien, The Dial, 21 Apr. 2026
  • Farrell shows up for all of a minute in this drama about a real-life crusading Irish crime reporter played by Cate Blanchett.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Marracci hoped that his accurate work would have the same effect in training crusading priests to dispute the word of Muhammad.
    — Jacob Soll, The New Republic, 12 Apr. 2018
  • Sometimes, the crusading rhetoric of online cranks and neo-Nazis is translated into deadly action.
    — Dan Jones, Time, 10 Oct. 2019
  • At times over the course of her campaign, Warren has sounded a cautious note on guns that is at odds with some of her more crusading liberal politics.
    — Jess Bidgood, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Aug. 2019
  • To crusade for it is to be on the side of justice, and so there is no choice but to accuse those obstructing it of being racists, misogynists, élitists, or oppressors.
    — Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2020
  • Lisa copes with the aftermath of watching a woman die on the street by first lashing out at her single mother and her own friends, then crusading to blame someone for the accident.
    — Hazlitt, 12 Dec. 2022
  • Adams, in turn, has sought to portray Herring as an activist crusading for his own liberal causes rather than standing up for the state’s existing laws.
    — Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2017
  • Then the central foursome became a crusading Soul Squad, flying around the world on Tahani’s infinite dime.
    — Darren Franich, EW.com, 1 Feb. 2020
  • Despite its image as a crusading publication, the Post often went out of its way to be sympathetic to power.
    — Christian Lorentzen, New Republic, 14 Dec. 2017
  • Kardashian West is still crusading for prison reform and is said to have been visiting jails around the capital and Maryland area this past week.
    — Harper's Bazaar Staff, Harper's BAZAAR, 26 July 2019
  • Navalny had crusaded for years against official corruption and staged massive anti-Kremlin protests.
    — CBS News, 16 Feb. 2026
  • Revising the tax code and cutting tax rates would be a potentially legacy-defining victory for a man who has crusaded for those kinds of steps for nearly two decades in public life.
    — Jonathan Tamari, Philly.com, 19 Sep. 2017
  • In New York, landlords have crusaded, with the help of millions of dollars, against anti-eviction legislation.
    — Sam Russek, The New Republic, 1 May 2023
  • For more than a year, Sergio Moro, a crusading judge in southern Brazil, had overseen the Petrobras inquiry.
    — Simon Romero, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2016
  • Thankfully this story of crusading Boston journalists and a shady Catholic Church cover-up did.
    — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 12 Mar. 2026
  • The crusading science journalist best known for his beef with Big Sugar is beat after four days of nutrition conference glad-handing.
    — Megan Molteni, WIRED, 18 June 2018
  • One, incredibly, was a crusading attorney in the DA’s office, and promptly quit to assist with her father’s defense.
    — Gary Thompson, Philly.com, 14 June 2017

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