How to Use evangelical in a Sentence

evangelical

1 of 2 adjective
Definition of evangelicalnext
Synonyms for evangelicalnext
  • He spoke about the project with evangelical zeal.
  • She is an evangelical Christian.
  • But one of my best friends took me with him to a Bible study in the cushy suburban home of an evangelical pastor.
    — Sarah Stankorb, ELLE, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Pence left the Catholic Church in college to become an evangelical Christian.
    — Abc News, ABC News, 27 Sep. 2023
  • The evangelical pastor has 4,200 migrants packed in his two Reynosa shelters, and more thronging their gates.
    — Dallas News, 19 Dec. 2022
  • In Iowa, three of his GOP rivals made their pitches to evangelical voters.
    — Mike Pappano, ABC News, 19 Nov. 2023
  • Monsivais who runs an evangelical church in Nogales said he was asked to take in a group of Venezuelan migrants.
    — Sarah Lapidus, The Arizona Republic, 9 May 2023
  • Pence and Scott have made plain their plans to vie for influential evangelical voters in Iowa.
    — Shane Goldmacher, BostonGlobe.com, 28 May 2023
  • But as your poll pointed out, the fact that he's been leaning into his faith, trying to win over evangelical voters.
    — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 5 Nov. 2023
  • Many of those returning vets are evangelical about the beauty of Vietnam’s land and people.
    — Chris Wallace, Travel + Leisure, 24 Mar. 2024
  • Because my mom grew up in the evangelical Christian church, our home life was overall strict and religious.
    — Janice Llamoca, refinery29.com, 23 Mar. 2023
  • So far, all pastors brought in have been evangelical Christians.
    — Dallas News, 29 Dec. 2022
  • His flashy marketing and self-promotion seem more in line with the style of evangelical megachurch leaders than the Vatican.
    — Jessica Bateman, The New Republic, 9 Jan. 2023
  • Polling shows that evangelical Christians between the ages of 18 and 29 are less supportive of Israel than their elders.
    — Haley Cohen, Sun Sentinel, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Does some of this end up making the evangelical voters who supported Trump so strongly in the past think twice about supporting him again?
    — ABC News, 2 Apr. 2023
  • The evangelical right is always waiting for the Apocalypse, counting the days, charting signs and wonders, making calculations as to the time and hour of the end times.
    — Colin Dickey, The New Republic, 3 May 2023
  • The Republican base heavily backed Trump, who won eight in 10 of the state's evangelical voters.
    — Jennifer De Pinto, CBS News, 6 Mar. 2024
  • But nearly all of these ideas differ from the idea of Israel held by, for example, evangelical Christians.
    — Jamie Levine Daniel, The Conversation, 19 Apr. 2023
  • That ranks them third, behind white evangelical and Orthodox traditions as the most likely to watch the network.
    — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 9 Sep. 2023
  • The man’s opponent was an actual, literal pastor — and still the evangelical Christians didn’t know which one to vote for?
    — Monica Hesse, Washington Post, 7 Dec. 2022
  • My sister and husband belong to one of those American evangelical religions that cropped up in the U.S. in the 19th century.
    — Annie Lane, Anchorage Daily News, 25 July 2023
  • By now, the blueprint for these set pieces is well understood, even to candidates who don’t exactly sing from the same evangelical hymnal.
    — Philip Elliott, Time, 12 July 2023
  • Was Chau an evangelical martyr-hero who answered God’s calling and gave his life trying to convert a remote and hostile tribe?
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 12 Oct. 2023
  • She ping-ponged from freebasing cocaine to tripping on the stronger drug of evangelical religion.
    — Dory Jackson, Peoplemag, 24 Oct. 2023
  • When Felicia Maize’s large evangelical church in the suburbs of Dallas temporarily closed down in March 2020, friends texted her and her family to urge them to tune in.
    — Ruth Graham, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2022
  • There are members of our band who grew up in evangelical Christian households, and there are members of our band who own pistols, and there are members of our band who care a lot about the Second Amendment.
    — Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 17 Dec. 2023
  • Camp Timber-lee, an evangelical Christian camp in East Troy, is used to teaching about miracles.
    — Chelsey Lewis, Journal Sentinel, 27 Feb. 2023
  • Baker grew up gay in an evangelical household in Memphis.
    — Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 19 Jan. 2023
  • The senator has focused much of his campaign resources on the leadoff GOP voting state, which has a large number of white evangelical voters.
    — Meg Kinnard, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Doug Wilson, the pastor who founded the evangelical school, in Idaho, later started a conference for Christian parents and educators who were interested in creating their own schools.
    — Emma Green, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
Advertisement

evangelical

2 of 2 noun
  • But Black evangelicals have been in the US since the country’s birth.
    — John Blake, CNN, 3 Feb. 2024
  • But the Supreme Court was what got evangelicals on board.
    — Julie Zauzmer, Washington Post, 9 July 2018
  • That's in large part because the nature of evangelicals has changed.
    — Leah Askarinam, ABC News, 10 Jan. 2024
  • By the next year, just 23 percent of adults overall agreed, and 31 percent of evangelicals.
    — Author: Keith McMillan, Julie Zauzmer, Anchorage Daily News, 15 June 2018
  • The megachurch and evangelicals have turned up the heat with no sugar coating to excuse our topsy-turvy world.
    — Leslie Anne Tarabella, al, 29 Jan. 2020
  • Scofield’s work helped to shape a group of Christians who were the precursors to modern evangelicals.
    — Liya Rechtman, BostonGlobe.com, 12 May 2018
  • And white evangelicals were 19%, compared with 55% in Iowa.
    — Gary Langer, ABC News, 23 Jan. 2024
  • Hundreds of evangelicals appealed to Lee’s faith in a letter this month.
    — Washington Post, 18 Dec. 2019
  • About half of Kenyans are evangelicals, a far higher proportion than in the United States.
    — Andrew Higgins, New York Times, 14 May 2023
  • For Hagee and like-minded evangelicals, this was the most important speech of Trump’s campaign.
    — Liya Rechtman, BostonGlobe.com, 12 May 2018
  • This is the man Trump-supporting white evangelicals claim was chosen by God.
    — Andrew Mark Miller, Washington Examiner, 17 Jan. 2020
  • Of course, evangelicals, for whom Trump is still the top pick, were probably more likely not to be watching that debate.
    — Nathaniel Rakich, ABC News, 15 Nov. 2023
  • What can the results in Sioux County tell us about the fractured nature of modern evangelicals?
    — USA TODAY, 14 Jan. 2024
  • Gospel star Kirk Franklin also has criticized evangelicals in the past for their support of Trump.
    — John Blake, CNN, 15 Oct. 2019
  • Not the dragon stuff, which scans as symbolic to even the dullest seventh-grader, but whatever the evangelicals thought the dragon stuff was a metaphor for.
    — Michael Robbins, Harper's Magazine, 9 Nov. 2022
  • White evangelicals continue to be one of the most reliable voting groups in the country.
    — Tara Isabella Burton, Vox, 7 Nov. 2018
  • The event gives the presidential prospects the chance to make their pitch to evangelicals in a state where Republicans will kick off the nominating process next year.
    — Thomas Beaumont and Michelle L. Price, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Apr. 2023
  • But to many of the Christian evangelicals who form part of Trump’s political base, apocalyptic tensions in the Holy Land aren’t a problem to avoid.
    — Liya Rechtman, BostonGlobe.com, 12 May 2018
  • By the time Republicans cast their first votes in 2016, Mr. Trump was starting to show surprising strength among some white evangelicals.
    — Frances Robles, New York Times, 18 June 2019
  • The Republican primaries in those states, in almost all of them, at least 45 percent of the people voting are white evangelicals.
    — How To Save A Country, The New Republic, 11 May 2023
  • As a rabbi in the South, Miller had to learn the ways of college football fandom and how to navigate in a world where evangelicals who believe in the Rapture are the predominant faith group.
    — Greg Garrison | , al, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Eighty-one percent of white evangelicals voted for Trump in the general election.
    — Tara Isabella Burton, Vox, 12 Apr. 2018
  • Lindsay’s focus is on documenting the emergence of the elite class of evangelicals.
    — Michael Luo, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2019
  • Middle-class evangelicals, hoping to curb drinking and exert power over the lower class, drove the Maine effort.
    — Anna Diamond, Smithsonian, 28 June 2018
  • Mr Trump’s declaration of war on late abortions, a common theme at his rallies, is not only designed to please the evangelicals who helped elect him in 2016.
    — The Economist, 22 Aug. 2019
  • But it pleased groups that backed Trump, including evangelicals.
    — Nicole Gaouette, CNN, 26 May 2018
  • The Sandinistas won 67 percent of the vote in a six-party race, with some 25 percent abstentions, many from Christian evangelicals.
    — Jeffrey L. Gould, The New Republic, 6 June 2019
  • The couple had become close to Arolde de Oliveira, the owner of Flordelis’s record label—a prominent evangelical who was also a nine-term federal deputy.
    — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 7 June 2021
  • That has only reinforced his support among his base, including evangelicals in the state of Iowa.
    — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 3 Dec. 2023
  • Among them are the very ones who have championed Trump’s policies in the past, namely conservative evangelicals.
    — Emily McFarlan Miller and Yonat Shimron, USA TODAY, 16 June 2018

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'evangelical.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: