How to Use apostate in a Sentence

apostate

noun
Definition of apostatenext
Synonyms for apostatenext
  • Their faith barred them from even speaking to apostates.
    — Alden Woods, azcentral, 27 Mar. 2018
  • Churches could be required to put apostates and atheists on their boards.
    — Richard A. Epstein, WSJ, 11 Sep. 2018
  • Now the first is an apostate failed state; the second, a quiet supporter; and the third, a de facto ally.
    — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 3 Sep. 2019
  • And doing it with her fellow Nashville apostates in the Dixie Chicks?
    — Mikael Wood, chicagotribune.com, 26 Aug. 2019
  • An apostate Synanon member had nearly been beaten to death.
    — Hillel Aron, Los Angeles Magazine, 23 Apr. 2018
  • For all of the loyalists Trump surrounded himself with, Cipollone was closer to an apostate in the West Wing.
    — Josh Dawsey, BostonGlobe.com, 6 July 2022
  • But when someone leaves, the community labels them an 'apostate' – the scarlet letter of the FLDS.
    — Lauren Lantry, ABC News, 22 June 2023
  • Sunni extremists view Shiites as apostates, and have carried out scores of attacks over the past two decades that have killed thousands of them.
    — Fox News, 2 May 2018
  • Abstract Expressionism’s greatest apostate — on view at all times for the next 50 years.
    — Roberta Smith, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2023
  • Like many in the early 1970s, Weberman saw his hero as an apostate, who had forsaken his role as the voice of a generation.
    — John Semley, The New Republic, 26 May 2021
  • Its first city, which lay in an arid Arabian desert, excluded non-Muslims and sentenced apostates to death.
    — The Economist, 1 Feb. 2020
  • This would be the case also for an apostate, heretic, schismatic bishop, presbyter, or deacon.
    — Fr. Goran Jovicic, National Review, 13 June 2021
  • Given an ill wind, crowds can quickly become mobs, and mobs have a nasty habit of separating apostates’ heads from their bodies.
    — Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 27 June 2023
  • These people call Catholics like me apostates for opposing the church’s doubling down on culture war issues at the expense of social justice.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2023
  • While Hon warns of the dangers of gamification, his book is not entirely a tech apostate’s account.
    — Rhoda Feng, The New Republic, 7 Dec. 2022
  • Moribund groups have sputtered to life, former brothers-in-arms have declared one another apostates, and erstwhile hunters of jihadists have joined their ranks.
    — Foreign Affairs, 15 Aug. 2017
  • Extremist Sunni groups, such as IS, view Shiites as apostates and consider shrines a form of idolatry.
    — Orange County Register, 11 Mar. 2017
  • The sudden arrival of a new class of tech skeptic, the industry apostate, has only complicated the discussion.
    — John Herrman, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2018
  • That’s when Jeffs — who was already in prison at the time — labeled Williams an apostate, eventually resulting in him leaving and losing his home and family.
    — Mark Eddington, The Salt Lake Tribune, 12 Aug. 2022
  • The Sunni extremists view Shiites as apostates deserving of death.
    — Bassem Mroue, chicagotribune.com, 18 May 2017
  • Again the Falcons enraptured the nation, becoming the favorite team for other franchise’s apostates and Madden video game players.
    — Ben Baskin, SI.com, 14 Sep. 2017
  • That makes them prime targets for Islamic State militants, who are Sunnis and consider Shiites to be apostates.
    — Melissa Etehad, latimes.com, 9 June 2017
  • The spark that ignited it all was a big-budget movie about the historical prophet Muhammad supported by the Black Muslims but damned as blasphemous by an angry apostate.
    — Edward Kosner, WSJ, 28 Dec. 2022
  • And 4 percent declared that defectors — apostates — deserved more harm.
    — Lilliana Mason, Washington Post, 16 May 2018
  • The Sunni extremist group views Shiites as apostates and has targeted Pakistan’s Shiite minority in the past.
    — Kathy Gannon, Orange County Register, 17 Feb. 2017
  • In the shocked Senate chamber after the crucial vote, McConnell seemed near tears, furious at the three apostates who frustrated his Republicans-only process, and completely out of ideas.
    — Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 28 July 2017
  • There’s nothing more tantalizing to a journalist than apostates.
    — Matt Pearce, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Picture the apostate disembarking from the motorcycle, in a paisley shirt, a scarf, and tight pants tucked into high boots, and rolling into his human-sexuality class at Golden West.
    — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2020
  • That book sets the Latter-day Saints apart from other Christian denominations, who even today often view the relative newcomer faith as suspect — or even apostate.
    — New York Times, 13 Oct. 2019
  • These choices cost Rustin allies and friendships, as former colleagues who afforded themselves the luxury of one-issue purity denounced him as an apostate, a hypocrite, a turncoat or worse.
    — Jerald Podair, The Conversation, 30 Jan. 2023

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