How to Use disciple in a Sentence

disciple

noun
  • The Lord's Prayer comes from the Gospels as Jesus taught his disciples the prayer.
    — Ryan W. Miller, USA TODAY, 6 June 2019
  • And maybe, in a certain way, his disciple is the killer in all of us.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 13 Oct. 2022
  • Donald fit the pattern of the hangers-on and the disciples around Roy.
    — Marie Brenner, The Hive, 4 July 2017
  • Jesus sports a halo and a beard, and his eyes are closed, in contrast to the open eyes of the disciples.
    — Diane Bell, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Apr. 2023
  • That very sequence, as disciples of the Air Raid would tell you, is the entire point.
    — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2019
  • The council and the disciples differ sharply over what has happened in the months since.
    — David Sarasohn, The New Republic, 12 Apr. 2018
  • But the thing the quarterback has to do is have the patience and disciple to just give what the defense gives.
    — Michael Casagrande | McAsagrande@al.com, al, 25 July 2019
  • Then there are the disciples of Starr who have risen to the highest ranks of government.
    — Dan Zak, The Seattle Times, 11 Sep. 2018
  • As the disciple swam, he was pursued by the same water beast.
    — Matt Blitz, Popular Mechanics, 21 Nov. 2019
  • The women tell a meeting of the disciples that Jesus has risen and the men ignore them.
    — John Blake, CNN, 30 Mar. 2018
  • Pusha is a protégé of West, a disciple of the church of provocation.
    — Josie Duffy Rice, The Atlantic, 12 July 2018
  • And from that time on, this disciple took her into his home.
    — Elizabeth Berry, Woman's Day, 1 May 2023
  • Newton is telling the story as an old man to a young disciple.
    — National Geographic, 23 May 2017
  • But all these questions miss the point, the Buddha tells his disciple.
    — New York Times, 31 May 2022
  • His disciples also spoke of Trump being saved by the hand of God.
    — Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 22 July 2024
  • The killers lived at the Spahn Ranch, and were disciples of a failed musician named Charles Manson.
    — New York Times, 24 July 2019
  • Launched in 2014, the freeze was meant to attract Pressed’s kale-guzzling disciples and fro-yo lovers alike.
    — Marian Bull, Bon Appetit, 22 Feb. 2017
  • Study the disciples and all their fears, jealousies and failings.
    — Terry Pluto, cleveland.com, 7 June 2019
  • Like your disciples, we too are filled with fear and doubt and even suspicion.
    — San Antonio Express-News, 28 Feb. 2018
  • It's credited to St. Matthew, a man who was called by Jesus to be one of his disciples.
    — Christine Rousselle, Fox News, 14 Feb. 2024
  • But inevitably, morale cratered, the business wobbled, the stock price sank and the Welch disciple was sent packing.
    — New York Times, 21 May 2022
  • Why was the book and its many disciples so persistent if there wasn’t something in it?
    — Vicky Spratt, refinery29.com, 2 July 2019
  • Lafargue was Karl Marx’s son-in-law and disciple, and may be the person who coined the term Marxism.
    — Lily Meyer, The Atlantic, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Dieckhaus was a third grader at the Covenant School and her sister, a fifth grader, is a member of the disciples class at the church.
    — Grace Hauck, USA TODAY, 27 Mar. 2023
  • James and his disciples have no patience for legends and tall tales.
    — Aimee Levitt, Chicago Reader, 4 Oct. 2017
  • In their telling, the fraud blamed on Dorje Chang was, in fact, pulled off by one of his corrupt former disciples.
    — Joseph Bien-Kahn, Rolling Stone, 3 Nov. 2024
  • As the waves rise, the disciples turn fearfully to Jesus.
    — Eric V. Copage, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2020
  • This time, as the Hoosiers tipped off their 50th season inside the building, Woodson was the first true Knight disciple to return to the Hoosiers bench.
    — Michael Marot, ajc, 9 Nov. 2021
  • Morita tried to take off his master’s head with a sword, but made a botch of it; another disciple had to finish the job.
    — Ian Buruma, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Something so impossible happened that his disciples were completely changed and declared that this dead one was now alive again.
    — Lynne Silva-Breen, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025

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