How to Use evangelical in a Sentence

evangelical

1 of 2 adjective
  • He spoke about the project with evangelical zeal.
  • She is an evangelical Christian.
  • Hesse, now an atheist, has few good things to say about the good many evangelical churches do.
    — Sandra Dallas, Denver Post, 1 Feb. 2026
  • Turnstile is in keeping with that spirit, but in an evangelical rather than monastic way.
    — Chris R. Morgan, The Washington Examiner, 22 Aug. 2025
  • So far, all pastors brought in have been evangelical Christians.
    — Dallas News, 29 Dec. 2022
  • But one of my best friends took me with him to a Bible study in the cushy suburban home of an evangelical pastor.
    — Sarah Stankorb, ELLE, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Democrats will try to make inroads with Catholics this year while hoping for lower evangelical turnout.
    — W. James Antle Iii, The Washington Examiner, 19 Apr. 2026
  • Wilson grew up in the town, where his father was an evangelical minister.
    — Samuel Perry, The Conversation, 6 Apr. 2026
  • But as your poll pointed out, the fact that he's been leaning into his faith, trying to win over evangelical voters.
    — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 5 Nov. 2023
  • And, fair or not, White evangelical Christians are viewed by many as the group that inflicts the most pain.
    — John Blake, CNN Money, 26 Oct. 2025
  • But, as unions and non-evangelical churches have shrunk, the left has turned to a different strategy.
    — Charles Duhigg, New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2026
  • The same holds for evangelical Christians.
    — Richard Haass, Foreign Affairs, 3 Sep. 2025
  • The killings have been seized upon among parts of the Christian evangelical right in the US.
    — Kara Fox, CNN Money, 26 Dec. 2025
  • Because my mom grew up in the evangelical Christian church, our home life was overall strict and religious.
    — Janice Llamoca, refinery29.com, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Pence and Scott have made plain their plans to vie for influential evangelical voters in Iowa.
    — Shane Goldmacher, BostonGlobe.com, 28 May 2023
  • Many of those returning vets are evangelical about the beauty of Vietnam’s land and people.
    — Chris Wallace, Travel + Leisure, 24 Mar. 2024
  • This united evangelical Protestant and Catholic activists who shared this view.
    — Time, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Monsivais who runs an evangelical church in Nogales said he was asked to take in a group of Venezuelan migrants.
    — Sarah Lapidus, The Arizona Republic, 9 May 2023
  • Carter was an evangelical Christian.
    — Ava Berger, NPR, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Like many young people in evangelical communities today, my shame was formed early.
    — Donna Lamb, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Pence left the Catholic Church in college to become an evangelical Christian.
    — Abc News, ABC News, 27 Sep. 2023
  • King’s recites the Nicene Creed weekly, rare among evangelical churches.
    — Tara Palmeri, Vanity Fair, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Trump has seen declines with other key base voting groups, like white evangelical Christians and rural voters.
    — Domenico Montanaro, NPR, 6 May 2026
  • Johnson grew up Protestant, in what would now be termed an evangelical church, a defining aspect of his life through his early adulthood.
    — Chris O'Falt, IndieWire, 13 Dec. 2025
  • Churches that embrace it, which tend to be evangelical, believe that the current dispensation is coming to an end.
    — Shalom Goldman, The Conversation, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Although the film was made for Netflix, Del Toro was equally evangelical about seeing it on the big screen.
    — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 3 Feb. 2026
  • The church in Germany was evangelical Protestant.
    — Amelie Botbol, FOXNews.com, 10 Aug. 2025
  • Of the 19 faith leaders that were scheduled to speak, 18 are Christian, and most are evangelical.
    — Chandelis Duster, NPR, 17 May 2026
  • Does some of this end up making the evangelical voters who supported Trump so strongly in the past think twice about supporting him again?
    — ABC News, 2 Apr. 2023
  • His flashy marketing and self-promotion seem more in line with the style of evangelical megachurch leaders than the Vatican.
    — Jessica Bateman, The New Republic, 9 Jan. 2023

evangelical

2 of 2 noun
  • That's in large part because the nature of evangelicals has changed.
    — Leah Askarinam, ABC News, 10 Jan. 2024
  • The megachurch and evangelicals have turned up the heat with no sugar coating to excuse our topsy-turvy world.
    — Leslie Anne Tarabella, al, 29 Jan. 2020
  • People often accused evangelicals of being not so much pro-life as pro-birth.
    — Larissa MacFarquhar, The New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2023
  • But Black evangelicals have been in the US since the country’s birth.
    — John Blake, CNN, 3 Feb. 2024
  • Hundreds of evangelicals appealed to Lee’s faith in a letter this month.
    — Washington Post, 18 Dec. 2019
  • Scofield’s work helped to shape a group of Christians who were the precursors to modern evangelicals.
    — Liya Rechtman, BostonGlobe.com, 12 May 2018
  • This is the man Trump-supporting white evangelicals claim was chosen by God.
    — Andrew Mark Miller, Washington Examiner, 17 Jan. 2020
  • White evangelicals continue to be one of the most reliable voting groups in the country.
    — Tara Isabella Burton, Vox, 7 Nov. 2018
  • Of course, evangelicals, for whom Trump is still the top pick, were probably more likely not to be watching that debate.
    — Nathaniel Rakich, ABC News, 15 Nov. 2023
  • By the next year, just 23 percent of adults overall agreed, and 31 percent of evangelicals.
    — Author: Keith McMillan, Julie Zauzmer, Anchorage Daily News, 15 June 2018
  • The young man who opened the door to the Chicago brownstone was the first person to show me that other side of White evangelicals.
    — John Blake, CNN Money, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Evangelicals see support of the modern state of Israel as a way of honoring that divine will.
    — Geoff Brumfiel, NPR, 7 Nov. 2025
  • And the breakup extends beyond evangelicals.
    — David M. Halbfinger, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Lindsay’s focus is on documenting the emergence of the elite class of evangelicals.
    — Michael Luo, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2019
  • That has only reinforced his support among his base, including evangelicals in the state of Iowa.
    — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 3 Dec. 2023
  • What can the results in Sioux County tell us about the fractured nature of modern evangelicals?
    — USA TODAY, 14 Jan. 2024
  • Not the dragon stuff, which scans as symbolic to even the dullest seventh-grader, but whatever the evangelicals thought the dragon stuff was a metaphor for.
    — Michael Robbins, Harper's Magazine, 9 Nov. 2022
  • About half of Kenyans are evangelicals, a far higher proportion than in the United States.
    — Andrew Higgins, New York Times, 14 May 2023
  • The influence is apparent even among non-evangelicals.
    — Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2026
  • Middle-class evangelicals, hoping to curb drinking and exert power over the lower class, drove the Maine effort.
    — Anna Diamond, Smithsonian, 28 June 2018
  • The wreckage to the Christian faith is incalculable, yet most evangelicals will never break with him.
    — Peter Wehner, The Atlantic, 21 Jan. 2026
  • White evangelicals tend to support strong enforcement, while Catholic leaders have spoken in favor of migrant rights.
    — CBS News, 22 Jan. 2026
  • White evangelicals make up roughly a quarter of American voters.
    — Andrew R. Chow, Time, 23 Dec. 2025
  • Trump has experienced some declines in support among white evangelicals and Latinos.
    — Brittney Melton, NPR, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Anti-Trump evangelicals have been vocal in the last few weeks in opposition to the president and his supporters.
    — Fox News, 31 Jan. 2020
  • In the end, party triumphed over any qualms evangelicals may have felt about the Access Hollywood candidate.
    — E.j. Dionne Jr., The Mercury News, 23 Aug. 2019
  • Notably here, white evangelicals Christians' approval is just 68%.
    — Domenico Montanaro, NPR, 6 Mar. 2026
  • The event gives the presidential prospects the chance to make their pitch to evangelicals in a state where Republicans will kick off the nominating process next year.
    — Thomas Beaumont and Michelle L. Price, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Apr. 2023
  • Evangelicals dismiss Talarico as a heretic for saying that their religion requires seeking common ground rather than high ground.
    — Tad Friend, New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2026
  • The Republican primaries in those states, in almost all of them, at least 45 percent of the people voting are white evangelicals.
    — How To Save A Country, The New Republic, 11 May 2023

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