How to Use loyalist in a Sentence

loyalist

noun
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  • No one wants to be the last loyalist of a doomed regime.
    — Mark Galeotti, CNN, 11 Nov. 2022
  • Many of those are Trump loyalists who also backed Shafer’s bid to overturn Trump’s 2020 loss in the state.
    — Nicholas Riccardi and Joey Cappelletti, USA TODAY, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Not just the beating heart of the team, Pelé was also an immense, one-club loyalist.
    — Simon Chadwick, The Conversation, 29 Dec. 2022
  • This new four-part series charts the rise and fall of the former New York mayor turned Trump loyalist.
    — cleveland, 8 Jan. 2023
  • Moïse put loyalist Jeantal Joseph in charge of the brigade and sought to turn it into his private armed force.
    — Amanda Coletta, Washington Post, 11 Feb. 2024
  • There was a scheme by studio execs and Hearst loyalists to buy the film to burn the negative.
    — Donald Liebenson, Town & Country, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Then there are the courts, which the former president stacked with a huge number of loyalists.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2023
  • He has been widely seen as an up-and-coming politician and a Xi loyalist.
    — Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Bud Black hasn’t come close to a winning season since 2018 but that’s more on the front office and that’s a closed shop of Monfort loyalists.
    — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Aug. 2023
  • The Patriots loyalist has $100 on Cincinnati to win the Super Bowl.
    — John Jurgensen, WSJ, 11 Feb. 2022
  • This four-part profile of the former New York mayor turned Trump loyalist concludes with back-to-back episodes.
    — cleveland, 15 Jan. 2023
  • That benefit alone can make the card worth it for Marriott loyalists.
    — Ben Luthi, wsj.com, 6 Nov. 2023
  • Some people are fitness loyalists: the Peloton spinners, the barre class girlies, the marathon runners.
    — Sara Gaynes Levy, Peoplemag, 26 Oct. 2023
  • Some members of the intelligentsia dismissed the job as a second-rate sop to a loyalist.
    — Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 8 Sep. 2022
  • The loyalist of Harries predicted this wayyy before the site launch though.
    — Seventeen, 23 Mar. 2022
  • Trump can count on the allegiance of his loyalists more than Biden can be sure of retaining the support of those who voted for him in 2020.
    — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Caddy loyalists won't care much that the handling's klutzy or that the tires try to peel off the rims at a walk or that the front seat is all wrong or that the drivability is below par.
    — Csaba Csere, Car and Driver, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Now, Sakan is caught between his exacting nature and a need for more bakery help while loyalists queue at the door.
    — Peggy Hernandez, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Sep. 2023
  • That leaves the studio going up against a director who was once one of its steadfast loyalists.
    — Vulture, 14 July 2023
  • Miles Franklin, a longtime Android loyalist, was left out of rounds of a popular online game in high school.
    — Tim Higgins, WSJ, 8 Jan. 2022
  • Vire’s mayor Marc Andreu Sabater, is a Macron loyalist.
    — John Irish and Noemie Olive, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Apr. 2022
  • Sure, there might be a Spectacular Bid loyalist here or there.
    — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 4 May 2023
  • Other polls also suggest the ranks of Trump loyalists have eroded.
    — Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2023
  • The loyalists don’t have much use for compromise or even government.
    — Philip Elliott, TIME, 4 Oct. 2023
  • New details also arose this week about plans to replace the director of the CIA with a Trump loyalist in the final stages of the administration.
    — Alan Feuer, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Dec. 2022
  • This is disputed by loyalists, who claim they were attacked first.
    — Caolán Magee, CNN, 6 Apr. 2023
  • Boal had a fondness for Pence but felt that Trump’s loyalists reviled him too much for his candidacy to succeed.
    — Robert Samuels, The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2024
  • One of the guards was a Uyghur woman, a party loyalist who had taken a particular dislike to the pregnant young inmate.
    — Nury Turkel, The Week, 10 May 2022
  • There, two rival groups clashed as loyalists to Eritrea’s government held a meeting in a venue that was attacked.
    — Kendrick Marshall, Charlotte Observer, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Reuters sent a request for comment to the office of the leader of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, a Kremlin loyalist, but received no reply.
    — Byreuters, ABC News, 5 Apr. 2022

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