Example sentences for: adherents

How can you use “adherents” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Straws in the wind: The New York Times reports that Santeria , the West Indian religion notorious for animal sacrifice, is gaining American adherents and coming out of the closet.

  • Conservatives, meanwhile, accuse him of turning out "agitprop for a politics whose few remaining adherents know nothing of America except Beverly Hills" (John Podhoretz, the Weekly Standard ). (Click for a trailer or to read David Edelstein's review in Slate .)

  • While his fellow students aren't banding to his racist wagon, the Southern Poverty Law Center reports that Hawke has garnered about 100 faithful adherents, most of whom are linked to him through his Knights of Freedom Web site.

  • Take Two," he was calling free circulation proponents "suicidalists," "deceivers," and "fools" who "have their adherents even within the walls of TheStreet.com.

  • Speaking of Mormon doctrine, the term, used as a general-purpose noun, adjective, and adverb, as an unofficial designation for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and its adherents, and comes from The Book of Mormon , a book that Joseph Smith claims to have translated from gold plates goven to him by an angle.


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