How to Use disciple in a Sentence

disciple

noun
  • Some of these are among Jang's top disciples.
    — Alex J. Rouhandeh naveed Jamali, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Aug. 2025
  • And maybe, in a certain way, his disciple is the killer in all of us.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 13 Oct. 2022
  • And so trying to form our folks in that sense of being a disciple.
    — Briah Lumpkins, Charlotte Observer, 26 Feb. 2026
  • Newton is telling the story as an old man to a young disciple.
    — National Geographic, 23 May 2017
  • As the disciple swam, he was pursued by the same water beast.
    — Matt Blitz, Popular Mechanics, 21 Nov. 2019
  • His disciples are asleep next to him, but betrayal is at hand.
    — Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Mar. 2025
  • James and his disciples have no patience for legends and tall tales.
    — Aimee Levitt, Chicago Reader, 4 Oct. 2017
  • Like your disciples, we too are filled with fear and doubt and even suspicion.
    — San Antonio Express-News, 28 Feb. 2018
  • Just imagine singing along with a club full of other disciples.
    — David Harris, SPIN, 15 Apr. 2026
  • His disciples picked up the mantle, even though those same forces wanted to kill them, too.
    — Amy Stephens, Denver Post, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Study the disciples and all their fears, jealousies and failings.
    — Terry Pluto, cleveland.com, 7 June 2019
  • Why was the book and its many disciples so persistent if there wasn’t something in it?
    — Vicky Spratt, refinery29.com, 2 July 2019
  • The council and the disciples differ sharply over what has happened in the months since.
    — David Sarasohn, The New Republic, 12 Apr. 2018
  • But all these questions miss the point, the Buddha tells his disciple.
    — New York Times, 31 May 2022
  • Its disciples can’t or won’t offer plain answers.
    — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 11 Nov. 2025
  • Jesus sports a halo and a beard, and his eyes are closed, in contrast to the open eyes of the disciples.
    — Diane Bell, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Apr. 2023
  • But the thing the quarterback has to do is have the patience and disciple to just give what the defense gives.
    — Michael Casagrande | [email protected], al, 25 July 2019
  • Then there are the disciples of Starr who have risen to the highest ranks of government.
    — Dan Zak, The Seattle Times, 11 Sep. 2018
  • Pusha is a protégé of West, a disciple of the church of provocation.
    — Josie Duffy Rice, The Atlantic, 12 July 2018
  • Donald fit the pattern of the hangers-on and the disciples around Roy.
    — Marie Brenner, The Hive, 4 July 2017
  • Donald fit the pattern of the hangers-on and the disciples around Roy.
    — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 28 June 2017
  • There is Dave Canales disciple David Moore.
    — Alex Zietlow april 2, Charlotte Observer, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Brodeur has at least two disciples in Minnesota.
    — Jess Myers, Twin Cities, 5 Dec. 2025
  • That very sequence, as disciples of the Air Raid would tell you, is the entire point.
    — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2019
  • The women tell a meeting of the disciples that Jesus has risen and the men ignore them.
    — John Blake, CNN, 30 Mar. 2018
  • Last Supper with his disciples.
    — ABC News, 29 Mar. 2026
  • Other Lynn disciples poured into the ranks.
    — Jonathan Chait, The Atlantic, 26 May 2026
  • Greene already lost her committee posts, which is the most common form of disciple in the House.
    — Ryan Nobles, CNN, 1 July 2021
  • Hsing Yun had instructed disciples not to look for relics in his ashes.
    — Deepa Bharath, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2026
  • The Bible tells us that Jesus and his disciples traveled to the city of Jerusalem.
    — Mckinley Franklin, HollywoodReporter, 12 Apr. 2025

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