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How to use evangelist in a sentence

17 example sentences · noun

Evangelist means an itinerant or special preacher, especially a revivalist, who conducts services in different cities or locations, now often televised. Example: “Yet in the spreading consumer market of the mid-1700s, his renditions competed with others offering a far different account of the evangelist and his message.”

Examples of evangelist by meaning

nounA person marked by extreme enthusiasm for or support of any cause, particularly with regard to religion.

  • Yet in the spreading consumer market of the mid-1700s, his renditions competed with others offering a far different account of the evangelist and his message.1994, Frank Lambert, "Pedlar in Divinity", →ISBN, page 10
  • The film implies that the evangelist, as a type, is a fanatic, a sanctimonious prig, and ultimately a hypocrite.1996, Peter J. Conn, Pearl S. Buck: A Cultural Biography, →ISBN, page 149
  • Hendy has come out as something of an evangelist for discontinuous electrification.2025 February 19, Paul Clifton, “I am absolutely committed to reforming the railway”, in RAIL, number 1029, page 41

More sentences with evangelist

  • This Indophilism of the British administrators and scholars shocked the evangelists and they termed it British Indomania.2016 January 1, B.B. Kumar, India: Caste, Culture and Traditions, Concept Publishing Company, →ISBN. From the entry Indomania
  • The press even dubbed one of McPherson's most successful young protégés the flapper evangelist.2009, Matthew Avery Sutton, Aimee Semple McPherson and the Resurrection of Christian America, page 125. From the entry flapper
  • A good link bait tool will create 'brand evangelists' — people who will talk positively about you.2009, Susan Rice Lincoln, Mastering Web 2.0. From the entry link bait
  • As the evangelist brings them to the Lord, the pastor-teacher leads them on in the Lord.1976, William J. McRae, “Pastor-Teacher”, in The Dynamics of Spiritual Gifts (Religion), Zondervan Publishing House, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC…. From the entry pastor-teacher
  • Mugson had a rich Uncle Archie who had married a lady evangelist.1945, Robert W. Service, Ploughman of the Moon: An Adventure into Memory, New York: Dodd, Mead, Book 3, Chapter 8, p. 120. From the entry salvationary
  • A. is subject, if you leave out the evangelists, may be laid at their door.1916, Hamilton Literary Magazine, volume 51, page 351. From the entry ludicrity
  • Now for more about the four birds, explicitly identified with the four evangelists as the four old men or Senexes.2013, John P. Anderson, Joyce’s Finnegans Wake: The Curse of Kabbalah, volume 7, Universal Publishers, →ISBN, page 53. From the entry senex
  • Perhaps the most famous example of this impulse to muscularize Christianity in the early twentieth century was evangelist Billy Sunday.2002, L. Dean Allen, Rise Up, O Men of God: the Men and Religion Forward Movement and Promise Keepers, page 73. From the entry muscularize
  • I have at present only two evangelists engaged in evangelistic work-one working in Hsin T’i and one in Han-ch’uan with Rev.1913, W. H. Jefferys, James Addison Ingle (Yin Teh-sen), Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society, →OCLC, page 170. From the entry Han-ch'uan
  • Charles Zueblin, a civic evangelist who had stirred Grand Rapids in a somewhat similar movement about a year before.1909, The Civic League Bulletin of Newport, R.I., volume 4, number 1, page 5. From the entry betterfy
  • Evangelists, pastors, apostles, prophets and bishops beamed down, inviting Chike to Amazing Grace Ministry, Fire Fall Down Tabernacle, Jehovah Always on Time Assembly.2017, Chibundu Onuzo, Welcome to Lagos, Faber & Faber Ltd, pages 25-26. From the entry Yenagoa
  • Among McPherson's most passionate and visible advocates were Southern California's young flappers, who turned out in droves to cheer on the evangelist.2009, Matthew Avery Sutton, Aimee Semple McPherson and the Resurrection of Christian America, page 125. From the entry flapper
  • Evangelists organized an association for each issue—temperance, education, Sabbath observance, antidueling, and later antislavery; collectively these groups formed a national web of benevolent and moral reform societies.1986, Mary Beth Norton; David M. Katzman; Paul D. Escott; Howard P. Chudacoff; Thomas G. Paterson; William M. Tuttle, Jr., A People and a…. From the entry temperance
  • William A. (Billy) Sunday, one of the most noted evangelists of the old "sawdust trail," died suddenly tonight of a heart attack in the home of his brother-in-law, William J.1935 November 7, “Billy Sunday Dies; Evangelist Was 71; Former Ball Player Induced Thousands To 'hit Sawdust Trail' To Conversion”, in New…. From the entry sawdust trail

Meaning of evangelist

  1. noun An itinerant or special preacher, especially a revivalist, who conducts services in different cities or locations, now often televised.
  2. noun A writer of a gospel, especially the four New Testament Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John), usually capitalized (Evangelist).
  3. noun A person who first brought the gospel to a city or region.

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Questions about evangelist in a sentence

How do you use evangelist in a sentence?
Evangelist is used as a noun. For example: “Yet in the spreading consumer market of the mid-1700s, his renditions competed with others offering a far different account of the evangelist and his message.”
What is a short sentence with evangelist?
“Hendy has come out as something of an evangelist for discontinuous electrification.”
What does evangelist mean?
Evangelist means an itinerant or special preacher, especially a revivalist, who conducts services in different cities or locations, now often televised.

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