Example sentences for: cult

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

  • Years ago, in the days before I became a journalist, I played trombone with a group called the Uptown Horns, backing up blues and rock bands, and I savor the memory of how our jaded little group used to mock the rock world's cult of the charismatic.

  • The Star Wars Elvis was Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey , a movie that combined cult attraction with intellectual pretension.

  • It has the X-Files movie on the way, a $60 million picture with a cult following so large, the film'll get to $100 million without breathing hard--even though it was months after shooting had ended before the studio's marketing head was allowed to read past page 60 in the script.

  • Joseph Paul Franklin, a white supremacist currently serving six life sentences for murder (and the man to whom the right-wing paranoid cult classic, The Turner Diaries , is dedicated), made a jailhouse confession in Flynt's shooting.

  • Fear of repeating the deadly clash between federal agents and Branch Davidian cult members has deterred police from raiding the compound.


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