How to Use follower in a Sentence

follower

noun
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  • The band has a large group of followers.
  • The party drew most of its followers from among young people.
  • He had a reputation of being a follower, not a leader.
  • Shay’s followers loved the post and hyped her up in the comments!
    — Jacqueline Tempera, Women's Health, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Videos of high school track meets take up the first slots on Philbin’s YouTube channel, which now has more than 6,000 followers.
    — Julia Coin, Charlotte Observer, 26 Jan. 2024
  • As fire trucks raced to the scene of the emergency, Ross, who lives across the way from Hill, hopped on social media to give his followers all the tea.
    — Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 8 Mar. 2024
  • And people can’t get enough of it: The feed has nearly 2.5 million followers.
    — Chris Moody, Washington Post, 22 Aug. 2023
  • The videos showed a different side of Rooney that followers didn’t expect.
    — Daysia Tolentino, NBC News, 21 Oct. 2023
  • Some followers stopped to offer him water or to ask for a selfie.
    — Ana Ramirez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Mar. 2024
  • Brands cannot pay creators to make content, and the app pays all creators the same rates, regardless of follower count.
    — Carly Olson, Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2023
  • To hardcore Mavs fans and/or Luka followers, this won’t be much of a surprise.
    — Sportsday Staff, Dallas News, 8 July 2023
  • Needless to say, tons of her followers flocked to her comment section.
    — Michelle Lee, Peoplemag, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Over a million followers online, brand deals, A-list stans, Broadway-bound and a new single about to drop.
    — Helena Andrews-Dyer, Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2023
  • Ross posted the video to Instagram to give her followers a peek at the post-event ponytail removal.
    — Kara Nesvig, Allure, 18 Dec. 2023
  • Danis deleted the August 11 post, but not before it had been saved and re-shared by his followers.
    — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 7 Sep. 2023
  • And 13 million followers cheered when Katy Perry caught the #samelove bouquet.
    — Maria Yagoda, Peoplemag, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Lisa also has the most followers for a K-pop artist on Instagram, with a then total of 86.3 million Blinks.
    — Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 15 Nov. 2023
  • Edwards told her followers that her first pup, Hatchi, was quite jealous of the new addition.
    — Charlotte Walsh, Peoplemag, 8 Sep. 2023
  • The groom, who has over 3 million Instagram followers, even made an appearance at one point in the night.
    — Liza Esquibias, Peoplemag, 21 July 2023
  • This is the right to leave Twitter without losing your followers and followees.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 5 Sep. 2023
  • After the Facebook post went viral, followers began sending the refuge a post from 2020 about a missing tortoise, the refuge said in.
    — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 23 Oct. 2023
  • Another group of 16 Crabb followers didn't fare as well.
    — The Arizona Republic, 11 Apr. 2024
  • With more than 162 million current followers, MrBeast has the largest subscriber base of any creator on YouTube.
    — Alli Rosenbloom, CNN, 25 June 2023
  • One lucky follower got her comedian Rick Glassman, who came on the show to chat about the exact amount of money in his bank account.
    — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 17 Jan. 2024
  • Couric also asked her followers to weigh in with their favorite weird food combos, and the opinions did not disappoint.
    — Christina Montoya Fiedler, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 July 2023
  • On the opposite end of the spectrum is Bryce Hall, who is arguably the world’s most famous influencer right now — 22 years old and has 50 million followers.
    — Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 31 Jan. 2024
  • On May 16, Hayek hit 24 million followers on Instagram, and marked the occasion with a fun dance party clip.
    — Quinci Legardye, Harper's BAZAAR, 8 July 2023
  • In his comments, followers reminisce with him about old episodes.
    — Rachel Lerman, Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2023
  • The posts that followed were business as usual, with the Grammy winner showing followers her Chick-fil-A order.
    — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 5 Dec. 2023
  • Over time, Sunny gained followers via streaming (as did The Office), but never the awards recognition.
    — Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 16 Jan. 2024

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