How to Use Mormon in a Sentence

Mormon

noun
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  • My mom and dad are still alive; all of them are Mormon.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 2 July 2024
  • Gad, who hasn’t been on Broadway since Book of Mormon, then brought the idea to Rannells.
    — Vulture, 22 June 2023
  • Mesa is the state’s third-largest city and has a large Mormon population.
    — Annabella Rosciglione, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 19 Oct. 2024
  • For decades, to be Mormon was to be pursued by an angry mob; its founder, Joseph Smith, was shot dead by one.
    — Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Smith used them to translate the Book of Mormon into English.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 20 Jan. 2024
  • All my best friends growing up were Mormon (and) are still Mormon.
    — Kimi Robinson, USA TODAY, 9 July 2024
  • The Book of Mormon, will star in Spaceballs 2, per Variety.
    — Maddie Garfinkle, Peoplemag, 8 July 2024
  • Tens of thousands of Mormon cricket eggs buried about an inch deep in the soil began to hatch in late May and early June.
    — Rio Yamat, Fortune, 20 June 2023
  • Freeman’s ancestry traces back to the Mormon pioneers who sank roots in Mesa in the late 1870s.
    — Maritza Dominguez, The Arizona Republic, 30 Oct. 2024
  • About half of Utah’s 3.4 million residents belong to the faith known widely as the Mormon church.
    — Hannah Schoenbaum, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2024
  • The Mormon group was headed to a wedding, and authorities said some of the victims were burned alive.
    — CBS News, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Rannells, known for his starring role in The Book of Mormon and recently in Gutenberg!
    — Caitlin Huston, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Mar. 2024
  • His older son is serving a mission for the Mormon church, and his younger daughter is 13 and lives with her mother.
    — Time, 20 Sep. 2023
  • Sometimes, when things got out of hand at the Taco Bell, employees called leaders from the Mormon Church instead of the police.
    — Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 21 June 2024
  • But there’s this whole Mormon story that’s wild and very American.
    — June Thomas, New York Times, 16 June 2023
  • In the video, a couple of men are going door-to-door preaching the Book of Mormon, but they’re left with their jaws on the floor when greeted by a woman in lingerie.
    — Michael Saponara, Billboard, 30 Oct. 2024
  • Lester, the son of a respectable businessman from Galesburg, Ill., was active in the Mormon church and a Sunday school teacher.
    — Mara Bovsun, New York Daily News, 16 June 2024
  • Utah was not the right place for two other men who came here as children with Mormon wagon companies.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 29 July 2023
  • From the Atlantic, a story on the Jewish quarterback at a Mormon college.
    — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2024
  • Nor did the Union Pacific pay the Mormon workers who completed it.
    — Barry M. Mitnick / Made By History, TIME, 11 Sep. 2024
  • The concept grew out of Utah, which has birthed a slew of dirty soda chains, bolstered by its large Mormon Church population.
    — Cheryl V. Jackson, The Courier-Journal, 16 Sep. 2024
  • Silver was raised Mormon and said many of his neighbors in North Ogden, Utah, practice the religion.
    — Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 16 June 2023
  • Susan, who had been raised Mormon, started wearing a head scarf, and Burdick observed the five daily prayers.
    — Heidi Blake, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2024
  • At age 19, Smith had embarked on his Mormon mission to Cochabamba, Bolivia.
    — Michal Lev-Ram, Fortune, 22 Aug. 2023
  • What were some of your biggest personal takeaways from playing a devout Mormon like Jeb this time around?
    — Max Gao, Harper's BAZAAR, 27 Apr. 2022
  • The teachings of the Mormon church complicated how Meri handled her feelings of jealousy.
    — Emily Strohm, Peoplemag, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Ballard, who is Mormon, bizarrely denied that the church had issued the statement while speaking to supporters in Boston.
    — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 18 Sep. 2023
  • His ancestry goes as far back as the early Mormon pioneers who settled in Mesa.
    — Maritza Dominguez, The Arizona Republic, 8 July 2024
  • That led to extensive Reddit threads speculating about who the Mormon swingers were.
    — Olivia B. Waxman, TIME, 6 Sep. 2024
  • Following a two-year Mormon mission to the Philippines, Williamson, now a junior, was training with his college teammates and getting back in shape.
    — David W. Chen, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2022

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