How to Use cultist in a Sentence

cultist

noun
  • One of these is the fearsome cultists of Mithras.
    — Griff Griffin, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Maybe, but my mind kept hot-air-ballooning away to my fellow-cultists, who were facing their own spiritual co-op boards.
    — Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2026
  • There’s an incredible sequence where Zazie Beetz’s character fights cultists with a flaming axe.
    — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Now, 50 years after their breakup, the Raspberries still count as scrappy underdogs, at least in the eyes of the cultists who keep the band’s legend alive.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Virgie is pursued, in some of the play’s funniest moments, by a slithering cultist in shiny green gloves who purrs like a deadly kitty and moves like an Animaniac.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 11 Mar. 2026
  • But the reunion is quickly crashed by more rich cultists who must carry out the sacrifice the Le Domas family failed to complete, with the winner of this new round of hide-and-seek gaining control of the world.
    — Glenn Garner, Deadline, 13 Mar. 2026
  • His obsession with the numbers results in Thiel turning South Park into a surveillance state and commandeering all the students’ data to compile a list of cultists.
    — Glenn Garner, Deadline, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Anderson’s chaotic but intensely touching father-daughter saga is set against a cluttered canvas of revolutionaries, cultists and political hustlers.
    — Peter Bart, Deadline, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Islamists battled for their own theocratic nation, and bands of Christian cultists—whom locals, naming them according to their most notorious act, called chop-chop—severed the heads of those deemed unholy in villages and towns across Mindanao.
    — Sean Williams, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Players will visit stunning new locations, solve intricate puzzles, battle dangerous cultists, and encounter an epic new enemy in a classically thrilling Indiana Jones adventure.
    — Griff Griffin, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025
  • There, Evelyn uses psychedelic drugs and psychological manipulation to brainwash them into joining the local community, which is, in fact, just a commune of Evelyn’s cultists.
    — Jordana Comiter, PEOPLE, 29 Sep. 2025
  • The film also features performances from Emma Chamberlain as traumatized former employee/cultist Pickle and Gabrielle Union as store manager Sharon, who’s been hired to keep the ladies in line after a tragedy recently struck the store.
    — Glenn Garner, Deadline, 17 Mar. 2026
  • Honda fans and Element cultists can rejoice because on Wednesday Automotive News reported the Honda Element will be revived as a hybrid crossover arriving in 2029.
    — Joel Feder, The Drive, 24 June 2026
  • The Industry actress, 29, got soaked in fake blood for her role in the horror-action flick as Maria Reaves (the younger sister to protagonist Asia Reaves, played by Zazie Beetz), as did Graham, 56, who plays a satanic cultist.
    — Bailey Richards, PEOPLE, 5 Apr. 2026
  • Watch Krampus on Peacock The Lodge A happy holiday turns cold when two children are snowed in during Christmas at a remote winter cabin with their soon-to-be stepmother (Riley Keough), whose visions of her cultist past trigger terrifying behavior for the trio in this 2019 horror thriller.
    — Lydia Price, PEOPLE, 23 Dec. 2025

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