How to Use zealotry in a Sentence

zealotry

noun
  • The great scourges of our politics are zealotry and hypocrisy.
    — John Brummett, Arkansas Online, 16 June 2021
  • That zealotry requires shame at one’s station and fear of one’s own death to keep others in their place.
    — Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, 12 July 2018
  • Here, Netziv points out the need of an antidote for zealotry.
    — Rabbi Avi Weiss, sun-sentinel.com, 28 June 2021
  • This is what caused a lot of the trouble in the first place—a lack of understanding of zealotry.
    — Noel Murray, Chron, 10 Apr. 2023
  • The film is replete with examples of anti-free-speech zealotry.
    — John Fund, National Review, 3 Nov. 2019
  • With the death penalty on the table, pro-Mangione zealotry would only get worse.
    — Boston Herald Editorial Staff, Boston Herald, 2 Apr. 2025
  • Greenwald’s not wrong to criticize the zealotry of the Russia pile-on.
    — Simon Van Zuylen-Wood, Daily Intelligencer, 21 Jan. 2018
  • The Davys wiped away the tears and returned for another two decades-plus of Vikings zealotry.
    — Star Tribune, 10 Sep. 2020
  • But for us, there has always been a higher purpose, if not a form of political zealotry.
    — Matt Bai, Washington Post, 17 July 2024
  • Yet there is a broader lesson in the Libby case about special counsels and zealotry.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 13 Apr. 2018
  • Strong is aware of his reputation for artistic zealotry — and to the scoffing that zealotry may elicit, even from his peers.
    — Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Sep. 2022
  • The irony is that sometimes their zealotry does backfire on Republicans.
    — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 11 Apr. 2022
  • The mayor’s veto was not based on policy, but rather on ideology and zealotry.
    — Andrew Cuomo, New York Daily News, 2 May 2026
  • What's not such a good thing is the food movement betting its rising stock on anti-GMO zealotry.
    — Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 6 Nov. 2012
  • But Biggs’s free-speech zealotry wasn’t completely without limit.
    — Mckay Coppins, The Atlantic, 19 Aug. 2017
  • Both men exude supreme confidence in their judgments, the kind of confidence that inspires zealotry in devotees.
    — John Horgan, Scientific American, 7 Oct. 2020
  • At the height of my zealotry, I was convinced any or all of the above scenarios were not only likely, but imminent.
    — Jason Christian, The New Republic, 29 Mar. 2018
  • But the new left has sold the idea of purity to its faithful, a religious zealotry reinforced by loyal pundits.
    — John Kass Chicago Tribune, Star Tribune, 3 Dec. 2020
  • Those who hoped to simply wait out this period of repression and zealotry now realize that there is no returning to the way things were.
    — Tatiana Stanovaya, Foreign Affairs, 9 May 2024
  • And Magnussen, given the broadest of the central roles, pushes Byron’s zealotry past tilt.
    — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 31 Mar. 2021
  • But there has been a discernible anti-immigration zealotry expressed by Grist readers over the last week, in response to this post.
    — Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 24 Mar. 2010
  • Broder had not a trace of the disabling egotism, ruthless ambition or partisan zealotry that afflict media stars today.
    — Lance Morrow, WSJ, 23 Sep. 2020
  • History has shown us the danger of religious zealotry when used as a justification for genocide.
    — Guest Columnist/cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 29 Apr. 2018
  • Now, as the government battles the more transmissible Omicron, its outbreak response has reached a whole new level of zealotry.
    — Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 24 Jan. 2022
  • There's not a chance that companies like Amazon would want to come here as long as Kentucky lawmakers are shoving their anti-gay zealotry down our throats.
    — Joseph Gerth, The Courier-Journal, 19 Sep. 2017
  • Some of the settlers are driven by fear, some by zealotry and others by the promises of limitless wealth, but in this moment, life is unquestionably solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.
    — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Jan. 2025
  • Now, zealotry is not always a bad thing, and, needless to say, there is much to hate in how Trump conducted himself after the 2020 election.
    — Rich Lowry, National Review, 6 Aug. 2023
  • Directors have always spotted at least a hint of zealotry in her sunny demeanor, and she’s found a part here makes her True Blood character look understated.
    — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Oct. 2024
  • As Álvaro keeps asking questions, the town turns against him, and the narrative morphs into a claustrophobic exploration of religious zealotry and evil.
    — Gabino Iglesias, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2023
  • The 1979 revolution will have finally reached its thermidor and abandoned its founding zealotry.
    — Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 1 Mar. 2026

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