Example sentences for: devotees

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

  • Not surprisingly, a slew of bad reviews for this bottom-feeding comedy about a fish tank cleaner who falls into the gigolo business by accident: "Among devotees of comedy, Deuce Bigalow is for the undemanding" (Lawrence Van Gelder, the New York Times ). Some go so far as to insult the cast, calling star Rob Schneider "a runty fellow of no particular talent" (Susan Wloszczyna, USA Today ). One reviewer pipes up in the movie's defense, calling Deuce "an hour-and-a-half goof on kinky sex, bathroom humor and inner happiness … a considerable cut above the crop of recent features by other SNL alums" (which is not saying much) and that it's "funnier than it deserves to be, not to mention rather sweet in a sophomoric, manwhore-with-a-heart-of-gold kind of way" (Michael O'Sullivan, the Washington Post ). (Click here to find out more about Rob Schneider.)

  • Nonfiction works generally appeal to small groups of academics/devotees of any particular subject, and those people are likely to read the books regardless of what the NYTBR says.

  • Even devotees of the "Living Constitution" like Tribe now declare their fidelity to text.

  • In the future people like me, having cultivated a following by providing free content on the Web, will charge our devotees for services that are hard to replicate en masse.

  • True devotees talk shop at even more specialized groups, such as one on Northeastern weather (ne.weather), whose recent conversation topics included the great blizzard of 1978 and the freak snowstorm of May 1977.


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