How to Use evangelize in a Sentence

evangelize

verb
  • The missionaries set out to evangelize the world.
  • They were evangelizing about the importance of saving energy.
  • Not to evangelize to them, not to win them over, but to entertain them.
    — Laura Manske, Forbes, 12 June 2022
  • Though if any parent finds something that does, then by all means buy—and evangelize—it.
    — Sarah Bregel, Glamour, 26 Apr. 2018
  • The church has loosened its strict rules for those evangelizing.
    — Lauren Jackson, New York Times, 10 May 2024
  • Part of its mission is to evangelize its students in the Catholic faith.
    — CBS News, 24 Jan. 2025
  • Ely evangelizes the merits of the program.
    — Hannah Keyser, CNN Money, 1 Feb. 2026
  • Both founders treat selling a product like evangelizing a faith.
    — Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 8 July 2025
  • The new Benedict would seek to re-evangelize a Europe that had lost its faith.
    — Rachel Donadio, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2022
  • Employees and customers alike come to hear Ma evangelize for the brand.
    — Bill Powell, Newsweek, 4 May 2017
  • If your own employees won’t evangelize your brand, don’t expect customers to do so.
    — Shep Hyken, Forbes, 12 Sep. 2021
  • Is the cause of Wings something that really needs to be … evangelized?
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 4 Sep. 2025
  • For me, the goal is not to evangelize for nuclear but to remove the emotion and add data.
    — Anna Broughel, Forbes.com, 29 Oct. 2025
  • The largest tech firms have all been evangelizing about the cost-saving power of AI.
    — Dade Hayes, Deadline, 2 July 2025
  • Users evangelize on what may be the best consumer value in America.
    — Ben Fritz, WSJ, 16 May 2018
  • The project lead needs to evangelize why this change is beneficial for each of the stakeholders and lay out a clear plan on how to get there.
    — Peter Nesbitt, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2023
  • But the man of the moment in the evangelize-for-dollars world isn’t a preacher begging for cash to do God’s work.
    — Michael D'antonio, CNN, 3 Aug. 2021
  • The group welcomes anyone who wants to learn more about the ancient traditions but does not evangelize or seek out members.
    — Amy Bizzarri, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Aug. 2022
  • In its place, a narrative of decay has taken hold, evangelized by critics such as Gioia.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 5 May 2025
  • The book, and the education campaign it was launched with, tried to evangelize a more singing-centric society.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 9 Apr. 2020
  • The two traveled to China to evangelize, but became severely ill.
    — Carolyn Kellogg, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2025
  • There’s such an opportunity to evangelize for the idea of Shakespeare.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 June 2023
  • Hurd has played a key role evangelizing Oracle’s message to investors and the public.
    — Fortune, 11 Sep. 2019
  • When not evangelizing about four-door coupes, he can be found watching The Real Housewives with his two cats.
    — Daniel Golson, Car and Driver, 10 May 2019
  • But he was detained again in July 2012 on charges of evangelizing and sentenced to eight years in prison.
    — Nicole Blanchard, idahostatesman, 19 Mar. 2018
  • Ivy has been with Cirrus most of her career, selling planes, flying them, evangelizing the very idea of personal flight.
    — Ryan D'agostino, Popular Mechanics, 14 May 2019
  • This dialogue would have been a prime occasion for Xi to evangelize the China model.
    — Thomas J. Christensen, Foreign Affairs, 24 Mar. 2021
  • Han evangelizes the many ways that self-driving vehicles—and moving away from a car-centric culture—can improve society.
    — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Although Love in the Time of Fentanyl is not meant to evangelize, its warts-and-all depiction could be the key to changing minds.
    — WIRED, 13 Feb. 2023
  • The whole point of this showcase, apart from using it to pitch Spielberg's movie, is to evangelize uses of VR beyond the game room.
    — Lisa Napoli, chicagotribune.com, 26 Mar. 2018

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