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How to use follower in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun

Follower means one who follows, comes after another. Example: “I have over 50 followers on Twitter, but all my tweets only get 10 likes.”

Examples of follower by meaning

nounAn account holder who subscribes to see content from another account on a social media platform.

  • I have over 50 followers on Twitter, but all my tweets only get 10 likes.
  • His Instagram account has over 1.2 million followers, while his Facebook page has 3.8 million.2026 March 11, Chad de Guzman, “Who Is Balendra Shah, the Rapper On Track to Become Nepal’s Next Prime Minister”, in TIME, archived from...

More sentences with follower

  • Followers should have a system to follow that works in their interests, not against them.From the entry system
  • The driver engages the follower intermittently, as dictated by the solenoid.From the entry driver
  • Individuals within this sense may include theistic Satanists, The Satanic Temple followers, or self-identifying Satanists.From the entry satanist
  • After a close brush with death, she became a sold-out follower of her faith.From the entry sold-out
  • Progressive dances typically start with the leader and the follower facing and backing line of dance, respectively.From the entry line of dance
  • Her star has fallen since then and she no longer has many followers.From the entry someone's star falls
  • Most new followers don't know about my marching band lore.From the entry lore
  • He distributed the bread amongst his followers.From the entry distribute
  • Megan has 53 posts and 41.7k followers on Instagram.From the entry Instagram
  • The manifestation of such philosophy seemed to wax and wane, being the most common one time, but virtually without followers at another, apparently disappearing.From the entry wax and wane
  • Other prominent Chinese dissidents and activists on the platform reported a plunge in follower counts, too.2024 March 18, Nectar Gan and Yong Xiong, “A dissident in Europe is enraging Beijing. Now Chinese police are coming for his social media…. From the entry dissident
  • Both her followings accumulate to an impressive 16.9, almost 17 million followers.2023 January 31, Katelyn Mensah, “Who is Mikayla Nogueira? The beauty TikToker whose face and eyelashes are all over your FYP”, in The…. From the entry following
  • “Must be hard being a one-hit wonder,” a follower negged me once.2022 February 18, Sonja Smith-Yang, “I went viral on TikTok and it wasn’t what I expected”, in The Independent. From the entry private
  • I think my body shape looks really cute in it," she told her followers.2022 October 30, Roisin Chapman, “I’m mid-size – my Shein haul included multiple dupes of Kim Kardashian’s Skims with prices from $13”, in…. From the entry giving
  • If his nearly five million followers are any indication, Feid is a sensation on TikTok.2022 October 26, Jessica Roiz, “7 Last-Minute DIY Costume Ideas to Pay Tribute to Your Favorite Latin Star This Halloween”, in Billboard. From the entry GRWM
  • And so the followers of Seferis, although they inherit a method, practice an unmethod, a methodological void.2021, Stathis Gourgouris, Dream Nation. From the entry nonplace
  • Many of the founders and leaders of today’s populist parties now just aren’t like their followers.2021, Peter York, “(Most) Populists aren’t what they seem…”, in John Mair, Tor Clark, Neil Fowler, Raymond Snoddy, Richard Tait, editors…. From the entry maga
  • Billions of dollars; millions of followers; EGOT status; a household name across the world.2021, Zakiya Dalila Harris, The Other Black Girl, Bloomsbury, page 180. From the entry EGOT
  • She then checked Chloe’s followers, which was well over a thousand followers.2020, Jay Janzee, Don’t Get Too Close, Pittsburgh, Pa.: RoseDog Books, →ISBN, page 79. From the entry following
  • He says as much on Twitter, frequently yelling “SILENT MAJORITY” at his followers.2020 July 24, Jamelle Bouie, “There Is a ‘Great Silent Majority.’ But It Stands Against Trump.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry silent majority
  • In addition, they found that while pro-vaccine pages tended to have more followers, anti-vaccine pages were faster-growing.2020 May 13, Kevin Roose, “Get Ready for a Vaccine Information War”, in The New York Times. From the entry anti-vaccination
  • They caused the Temenggong of Johor, who visited the project, to quickly leave with his followers.2020, Sujit Sivasundaram, Waves Across the South, William Collins, published 2021, page 274. From the entry temenggong
  • Figure 1(a) shows a novel translating follower having double oblique flat-faced configuration.2019, Chin-Hsing Kuo, Pei-Chun Lin, Terence Essomba, Robotics and Mechatronics, page 165. From the entry double-oblique
  • Those beings are reported and identified in The Bible as Lucifer and Lucifer’s followers.2015, Randall C. Hale, “A Brief History as Reported in The Bible”, in War On…, Frederick, Md.: America Star Books, →ISBN, page 56. From the entry The Bible
  • They feed on themselves: the more people tweet the more they are rewarded with followers and retweets.2013 November 16, Schumpeter, “The mindfulness business”, in The Economist, volume 409, number 8862. From the entry constant
  • Once one unfollows a followee, the follower will not get enough qualified tweets.2013, Witold Pedrycz, Shyi-Ming Chen, editors, Social Networks: A Framework of Computational Intelligence, Springer, →ISBN, page 251. From the entry followee
  • “Selenators”, her faithful followers, cannot wait to see what she does next.2013 October 1, Aly Doyle, “Selena Gomez”, in Raiders Digest, Regis Jesuit High School, Aurora, Colorado, archived from the original on 27…. From the entry Selenator
  • For Sauvignon followers who crave a softer style, this asparagussy contrivance might serve.2013, Ned Halley, Best Wines in the Supermarket 2014, London; […]: Foulsham, page 107. From the entry asparagussy
  • Followers of pseudosciences such as astrology often draw spurious parallels between their beliefs and established science.2012, The Guardian, (headline), 7 Feb 2012. From the entry astrology
  • Sun Ying-Ao is an outstanding scholar amongst the Wang Yang-Ming followers in Gueijhou.2012, Wen-Shu Huang [黃文樹], “Closeness of Friendship between Sun Ying-Ao and His Disciples Following Wang Yang-Ming [孫應鰲與王門弟子的交誼]”, in…. From the entry Gueijhou
  • He engages eagerly with fans—his homepage is a flurry of ampersats from his back-and-forths with followers.2011 November 18, L.V. Anderson, “Follow Friday: The Internet’s Wittiest Angst-Ridden Folk Musician”, in Slate, New York, N.Y.: The Slate…. From the entry ampersat
  • Long ago, followers of geloscopy believed the word you used to laugh revealed part of your personality!2010, Bart King, Bart's King Sized Book of Fun, page 140. From the entry geloscopy
  • That moment when you realize your newest follower is a newfur.2010 December 19, CurlyFryTail, Twitter. From the entry newfur
  • Most voodoo priests, known as houngans, operate semi-independently, catering to their followers without much structure.2008 April 5, Marc Lacey, “A U.S.-Trained Entrepreneur Becomes Voodoo’s Pope”, in New York Times. From the entry houngan
  • A decade later, the Clash appropriated the term as a romantic catch-all for their own followers.2007 July 20, Marcus Gray, “The cult of the roadie”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry rude boy
  • This is, of course, a motivating send off, one that encourages and uplifts your followers.2006, Eric G. Stephan, R. Wayne Pace, To Lead as Jesus Led, →ISBN, page 51. From the entry send off
  • Some followers of Vācaspati Miśra consider jīva to be limited by the inner sense organ.2006, Sanjukta Gupta, Advaita Vedanta and Vāiṣṇavism: The Philosophy of Madhusūdana Sarasvatī, Routledge, page 50. From the entry jiva
  • In Virginia, Samuel Davies, a New Light Presbyterian, and his followers had the greatest impact.2006, Rosemary Skinner Keller, Rosemary Radford Ruether, Marie Cantlon, Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America, Indiana…. From the entry New Light

Meaning of follower

  1. noun One who follows, comes after another.
  2. noun Something that comes after another thing.
  3. noun One who is a part of master's physical group, such as a servant or retainer.

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Questions about follower in a sentence

How do you use follower in a sentence?
Follower is used as a noun. For example: “I have over 50 followers on Twitter, but all my tweets only get 10 likes.”
What is a short sentence with follower?
“He distributed the bread amongst his followers.”
What does follower mean?
Follower means one who follows, comes after another.

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