How to Use crusader in a Sentence

crusader

noun
  • For now, privacy crusaders are left to wait.
    — Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 31 Dec. 2025
  • Greenberg wasn’t just a critic but a crusader.
    — Zachary Fine, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025
  • The loss of their only child shattered the couple’s lives and turned them into crusaders.
    — Christina Fuoco-Karasinski, Peoplemag, 25 May 2023
  • By the time of the moral crusader’s death, public opinion was changing.
    — Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 June 2023
  • In videos, Prince is charming, goofy, a crusader for her causes.
    — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2024
  • Danny has a secret crush on Sam, a girl at school who is a social justice crusader.
    — Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Dec. 2024
  • In the space of a year, the major record labels have shifted from legal crusaders to would-be business partners.
    — Virginie Berger, Forbes.com, 6 June 2025
  • Willis, not surprisingly, is happy to be seen as an artistic crusader.
    — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 July 2026
  • Now, over three years later, the series is back to continue the adventures of the masked crusader.
    — Christopher Rudolph, People.com, 21 Aug. 2025
  • But the village has a crusader castle, which is a big tourism attraction, and that’s where his adventure takes place.
    — Martin Dale, Variety, 9 Dec. 2022
  • Ares is the god of war, known in the popular imagination as a crusader, unafraid of what stands before them.
    — Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 20 Oct. 2022
  • Riley, a Kansas City native, said her mother was a one-of-a-kind crusader for what was right and just.
    — J.m. Banks, Kansas City Star, 28 Apr. 2024
  • Through gestures big and small, Bruce Friedrich conforms to the archetype of a lifelong anti-meat crusader.
    — Andrew Zaleski, The Atlantic, 30 Mar. 2026
  • But Lee is the kind of crusader who inspires more bemusement than admiration from those around him.
    — Inkoo Kang, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
  • For decades, American moral crusaders have tried to keep material away from the young in the name of protecting them.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2023
  • Escobarete is glad Campbell made the choice to become a Crusader.
    — Steve Millar, Chicago Tribune, 4 May 2026
  • His image as a righteous crusader was already showing its age in 2016.
    — Kara Voght, Rolling Stone, 23 Dec. 2022
  • Kennedy has stocked key public health advisory committees with anti-vax crusaders.
    — Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Ian Cain, a fellow crypto crusader and Quincy city councilor, came in third with around 9%.
    — Mike Deehan, Axios, 4 Sep. 2024
  • My dear friend Charlie Kirk was our country's relentless and courageous crusader for free speech.
    — Gabe Whisnant anna Commander, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Sep. 2025
  • My dear friend Charlie Kirk was our country's relentless and courageous crusader for free speech.
    — Marni Rose McFall, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Others, irate about the hypocrisy that often accompanied both the beacon and the crusader personas, will shrug and say good riddance.
    — Andreas Kluth, The Mercury News, 25 June 2024
  • Trying to grow a business in the midst of such rhetoric would prepare the Warner brothers to deal with industry censors and moral crusaders.
    — Chris Yogerst, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Apr. 2023
  • At times, Fok appears like a crusader who wants to question the system that leaves victims like poor innocent Man in its wake.
    — Richard Kuipers, Variety, 10 Jan. 2025
  • The Governors advanced to the Crusaders’ 11 on the opening drive of the second half but turned the ball over on downs.
    — Frank Rajkowski, Twin Cities, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Underwood is not a regulator or a public-health crusader.
    — Kansas City Star, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Adler was a particularly passionate crusader against the scourge of child labor.
    — Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2026
  • Later, Christian crusaders built citadels along the coast that went on to be repurposed by Muslim Ottoman rulers.
    — Daniele Hamamdjian, NBC News, 17 Nov. 2024
  • To be clear, McConaughey isn’t an anti-AI crusader.
    — Todd Spangler, Variety, 14 May 2026
  • While a college student, Jackson was a crusader in the fight against Jim Crow segregation laws.
    — Alex Harring, CNBC, 17 Feb. 2026

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