How to Use zealot in a Sentence

zealot

noun
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  • The zealot is long gone, and in his place is just Floki.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2021
  • Taylor, 52, and her cousins were raised to be zoo zealots.
    — Olivia Diaz, Washington Post, 31 Oct. 2023
  • His role is to grow the party as opposed to being a zealot . . .
    — BostonGlobe.com, 30 May 2021
  • The main stone altar, a flat disk about 20 feet across and raised about two feet off the ground, was smashed by Mao’s zealots.
    — Ian Johnson, New York Times, 1 May 2017
  • Crackstone was a zealot who hated and feared the outcasts and planned to kill them all.
    — Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 24 Nov. 2022
  • Burke is a zealot on the issue and makes no apology for it.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 30 Aug. 2022
  • Hardly the words or actions of a pot zealot white-knuckling the armchair with fears of the feds.
    — The Denver Post Editorial Board, The Denver Post, 14 Apr. 2017
  • The Texas lawman hardly looks like a law-and-order zealot.
    — Edward Kiersh, SPIN, 11 Feb. 2023
  • But Yang didn’t want to become consumed by Barbie in the way so many zealots are.
    — Anne Branigin, Washington Post, 15 July 2023
  • But these fans may soon need to share their bleachers or slice of sod in the Snake Pit with a new crew: the solar zealots (coining the term here).
    — Sarah Bowman, Indianapolis Star, 18 May 2018
  • But with the arrival of the Jim Crow era, Stevens was reduced to the caricature of a vengeful zealot.
    — Fergus M. Bordewich, WSJ, 5 Mar. 2021
  • The rules are tailored to allow any zealot, anywhere, to challenge any book at any time.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 1 Jan. 2024
  • The zealot should scrupulously develop a counter-trait of shalom.
    — Rabbi Avi Weiss, sun-sentinel.com, 28 June 2021
  • To the bemusement of zealots on both sides of the culture wars, the decision was unanimous.
    — Andrea Picciotti-Bayer, National Review, 30 June 2023
  • Play as big a role in the mundane activities of politics as the zealots do.
    — Yvonne Wingett Sanchez, azcentral, 30 Apr. 2018
  • Late in the game, the play suffers from a creeping tediousness that can come from the speechifying of zealots of every stripe.
    — Andrea Simakis, cleveland.com, 16 May 2017
  • Mr Akin was inspired to make the movie after reading in 2013 that a gay-pride event in Tbilisi had been harassed by thugs and zealots.
    — The Economist, 29 Aug. 2019
  • Good both for Instagram addicts and flat Earth zealots.
    — Vlad Savov, The Verge, 13 July 2018
  • And those who weep for them or try to protect them are condemned roundly as religious zealots and akin to racists.
    — John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 13 June 2019
  • But calling him an overbearing zealot would be missing the point.
    — Keith Bierygolick, The Enquirer, 13 Aug. 2021
  • Among the many strange and dark forces that animate Donald Trump, the urgings of far-right white-power zealot Steve Bannon might be the most hideous.
    — Slate Staff, Slate Magazine, 26 Apr. 2017
  • But the decline will be slower than fintech zealots believe.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 21 June 2019
  • Mantis from the Guardians of the Galaxy films, are A.I. zealots or simply superior thugs-for-hire.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 5 July 2023
  • To put the end to these threats the new management made the chop-chop square work double time to demonstrate what will happen to zealots who want the country to stay behind.
    — Alex Zhavoronkov, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Some of the anti-Trump zealots are now claiming that the Russians actually swung the election.
    — Fox News, 31 July 2018
  • But when should even the most fervent late-round quarterback zealot consider taking one of the top passers?
    — Michael Beller, SI.com, 4 July 2018
  • There are a variety of reasons, but first and foremost, anti-gun zealots lie.
    — Paul Jenkins, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Feb. 2018
  • Cromwell was more a religious zealot than any Christian right-winger today.
    — Jonah Goldberg, National Review, 27 Sep. 2017
  • One of them was identified as Matthew the tax collector, another as Simon the zealot.
    — Daniel Burke, CNN, 14 June 2018
  • Hundreds have been killed by zealots and their places of worship have been targeted; thousands more have fled Pakistan.
    — Fox News, 23 July 2018

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