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• The wise old monk had little screen time compared with his buxom young disciple.From the entry screen time
• His disciple spread the Drukpa school in western Tibet.From the entry Drukpa
• Soon missionaries coming out of discipled circles will provide most of the force required by new opportunities.2011, Vern Middleton ·, Donald McGavran, His Early Life and Ministry. From the entry discipled
• The trusting disciple receives them and has an attack of the happies.2000 October, Brennan Manning, “The Way of Trust”, in Ruthless Trust: The Ragamuffin’s Path to God, [San Francisco, Calif.]…. From the entry happies
• Jesus treats his disciples as yokefellows rather than as camels and donkeys to be loaded down (23:4).1999, David E Garland, Reading Matthew: A Literary and Theological Commentary on the First Gospel. From the entry yokefellow
• Nanak and his discipled were given a respectful fare well by Baber.1990, H. Revanasiddappa, Alexander to Zia-ul-Haq, an Astrological Interpretation of History, page 56. From the entry discipled
• Polycrates, disciple of Gorgias, wrote in praise of mice, pots, pebbles.1989, Friedrich [Wilhelm] Nietzsche with Sander L. Gilman, Carole Blair, David J. Parent, editors & translators, Friedrich Nietzsche on…. From the entry adoxograph
• Through telepathic directives, he velocitizes the atmosphere through which the disciple learns discrimination and discernment.1985, Ann Ree Colton, Jonathan Murro, The Pelican and the Chela. From the entry velocitize
• Chan's dedication to spying eventually touched Leung Jun and he was eventually accepted as a disciple.1983, William Cheung, Wing Chun Bil Lee, the Deadly Art of Thrusting Fingers, Unique Publications, →ISBN, pages 12-13. From the entry grandmastership
• I had heard the madman telling his disciples the Nazrulian poem “aj srishtisukher ullashe.”1966, Z. A. Tofayell, History of Kushtia. From the entry Nazrulian
• It would have taken more than a lion to have got the disciple that time.1922, Evan Richard Calthrop, The Horse, as Comrade and Friend - Edition 3, Hutchinson & Co. - Paternoster Row - London, page 106. From the entry splendidiferous
• It probably gets tricksy to tell your own voice apart from your disciples’ – which one is the original?2014, Piers Martin, “Aphex Twin: ‘His music is a perfect mix of mystery and adrenaline’”, in The Guardian. From the entry scrillion
• Some of these treatises were written by women adopting as pennames the names of earlier female disciples and relatives of Pythagoras.2013, Helene Foley, Reflections of Women in Antiquity, page 311. From the entry Neopythagorean
• The same Georgian persona, leonine and sacerdotal (that of the aristocratic priest) appears throughout the reminiscences of all his disciples.2001, Martin Travers, Critics of Modernity: The Literature of the Conservative Revolution in Germany, 1890–1933, page 82. From the entry Georgian
• With her disciples, Maifreda began to prepare for her pontificate.1996, Nigel Cawthorne, “Pope Joan”, in Sex Lives of the Popes: An Irreverent Exposé of the Bishops of Rome from St Peter to the Present…. From the entry Guglielmite
• Hasidism was a pietistic devotional movement in which the relationship between Rebbe and disciple was of paramount importance.1994, Simcha Paull Raphael, Jewish Views of the Afterlife, page 352. From the entry pietistic
• A chiastic⁹⁸ plotting of the passage illustrates beyond doubt that the disciple has to be identified with the Master.1986, Xavier Léon-Dufour, translated by Terrence Prendergast, Life and Death in the New Testament, Harper & Row, page 112. From the entry chiastic
• Freud's disciples have been even more stupid about "creative writing".1985, Walker Percy with Lewis A. Lawson and Victor A. Kramer, Conversations with Walker Percy, page 165. From the entry stupider
• What really mattered was the sensei’s careful transmission of the metaphysical principles of his ryu to his most promising disciples.1985, Dave Lowry, Autumn Lightning: The Education of an American Samurai, Boston, Mass.: Shambhala Publications, Inc., published 2013, →ISBN. From the entry ryu
• Jesus called the disciples one by one and only twelve.1963 November 16, Guy R. Baer, “Saturday Sermonette”, in Public Opinion, volume 95, number 102, Chambersburg, Pa., page three. From the entry churchful
• Ex-King Constantine would be regarded as an apt disciple so long as he succeeded in his purpose of hoodwinking the Allies.1917 September 21, “The Greek White Book”, in The Near East: A Weekly Review of Oriental Politics, Literature, Finance, and Commerce…. From the entry hoodwink
• Nay, I had a disciple with me.1901, Rudyard Kipling, Kim. From the entry chela
• We are not sure what caused the argument among the disciples; they simply viewed themselves as more important than they really were.2013, John Bishop, God Distorted: How Your Earthly Father Affects Your Perception of God and Why It Matters, Multnomah Books, →ISBN. From the entry entitled
• The idea of a 'psychagogy' only occupies a secondary place, and has been more the concern of the disciples than of the master.2013, Oliver Brachfeld, Inferiority Feelings: In the Individual and the Group, page 49. From the entry psychagogy
• “Now tell the disciples, My mine is the mine of undesire, and my pearl is the pearl of the mine of unpurpose.”2013, Farid al-Din Attar, Muslim Saints and Mystics. From the entry undesire
• Strict disciples of history as a science may scorn the intuitive process, but that attitude comes from being more Catholic than the Pope.2011, Barbara W. Tuchman, Practicing History: Selected Essays, page 59. From the entry more Catholic than the Pope
• “In all fairness to her disciples, it must have been impossible to concentrate with a couple of cannons like those in your face,” McCormick said.2010 September 23, “New Evidence Suggests God Also Had Incredibly Busty Daughter”, in The Onion, volume 46, number 38, page 5. From the entry milk-maker
• The texts indicate that when the Buddha's first disciples heard about anatta, their hearts were filled with joy and they immediately experienced Nirvana.2009, Karen Armstrong, The Case for God, Vintage, published 2010, page 33. From the entry anatta
• Even if you're a Flying Spaghetti Monster disciple speaking at the Vatican, someone in that room will hate you less than everyone else.2009 October, Scott Berkun, “How to work a tough room”, in Confessions of a Public Speaker, 1st edition, Sebastapol: O'Reilly, →ISBN…. From the entry flying spaghetti monster
• The trumpeter Wallace Roney, a leading disciple of the Davis sound and style, played with exacting purpose and unrepressed enthusiasm, carving up the song.2008 May 12, Nate Chinen, “Recalling Miles Davis by Crossing Cultures”, in New York Times. From the entry unrepressed
• The disciples were proud, blundersome, quick tempered, forgetful, easily provoked to jealousy, sensitive, and often given to discouragement; but Jesus never condemned or scolded them.2007, Edward John Carnell, A Philosophy of the Christian Religion - Page 436. From the entry blundersome
• Many of the recommendations of Jesus are aimed at those who wish to join his circle of disciples to live a rigorous life.2005, Nicholas Capaldi, Business and Religion: A Clash of Civilizations?, page 137. From the entry counsel of perfection
• But a disciple of Spinoza will claim that a person is a mode of the one substance; Nature, as it were, is "personish here-about".2002, William P. Alston, Realism and Antirealism. From the entry personish
• He who refuses to live as a disciple of his Redeemer should learn to show his neighbor that he is meek and humble.1990, Saint Peter Damian (Owen J. Blum), Letters - Volume 2, →ISBN, page 241. From the entry humblehearted
• Seated on the accubitum used at the Last Supper, the disciples are undoing their sandals in preparation for the Washing of the Feet.1974, Chrēstos G. Patrinelēs, Agapē Karakatsanē, Maria Theocharē, Stavronikita Monastery: History, Icons, Embroideries, page 197. From the entry accubitum
• Frank Sinatra, followed like a Pied Piper by a procession of sober-faced disciples, unshouting and undemonstrative for a change, hurried to St.1968, Louis Sobol, The Longest Street, page 134. From the entry unshouting
• The weaknesses of the many make the leader possible—and the man who craves disciples and wants followers is always more or less of a charlatan.1927, Elbert Hubbard, The Notebook of Elbert Hubbard: Mottos, Epigrams, Short Essays, Passages, Orphic Sayings and Preachments: Coined…. From the entry more or less
• For a brief period, Thoreau lived as an inmate of Emerson's household and became an unconscious disciple of the man who entertained him.1909, Theodore Stanton, A Manual of American Literature, G. P. Putnam's Sons, page 330. From the entry otherworldliness
• Once the totalism of Sagehood is grasped, the disciple can throw away his li-books; he will be a perfect ritual actor naturally.1900, Robert Eno, The Confucian Creation of Heaven, →ISBN, page 69. From the entry totalism

Meaning of disciple

1. noun A person who learns from another, especially one who then teaches others.
2. noun An active follower or adherent of someone, or some philosophy etc.
3. noun A wretched, miserable-looking man.

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How do you use disciple in a sentence?

Disciple is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The wise old monk had little screen time compared with his buxom young disciple.”

What is a short sentence with disciple?

“Nay, I had a disciple with me.”

What does disciple mean?

Disciple means a person who learns from another, especially one who then teaches others.