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Example sentences for "follower"

Lexicographically close words:
follies; follow; followd; followe; followed; followers; followes; followest; followeth; followin
  1. And you are a follower of a learned man who withdraws from his chief; had you not better be a follower of such as have forsaken the world?

  2. You are a follower of Confucius of Lu, are you not?

  3. He is no follower of mine," said the Master.

  4. If I were to take a raft, and drift about on the sea, would Tsz-lu, I wonder, be my follower there?

  5. This boatswain was a young man, who had been for some years a follower of the Admiral in different ships, and to whom he had just given a warrant.

  6. In a few minutes my traps were packed up, my commission made out, and I had the honour of hailing myself a professional follower of one of the first officers in his Majesty's service.

  7. Then, a little farther up the right fork, he would plant a sapling or pole in the water, slanting in the direction he had gone--to prove to the follower that he was now on the right trail.

  8. If a full day had elapsed since the placing of crossed sticks over the trail, the follower would abandon all caution and follow at top speed, as he would realize that some misfortune had befallen the hunter.

  9. Footnote 295: Favonius was a follower of Cato; Asinius Pollio a Caesarian.

  10. Am I a soldier of the cross, A follower of the Lamb?

  11. Each faithful follower Jesus views With infinite delight; Their lives to him are dear--their death Is precious in his sight.

  12. He is a follower of Mohammed, the founder of Islamism, and has shown his devotion to the teachings of the Koran by a pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina and by a lifelong adherence to the religion of his fathers.

  13. Selim, who had hitherto professed to be a follower of Mohammed, declared, after hearing our conversation, that he was ready to acknowledge himself a Christian, and to die with us if we were to be put to death.

  14. I am an unworthy follower of Christ, our spiritual Redeemer, and a soldier of King William, our temporal deliverer; and I stand here to bid you make good your profane boasting.

  15. The news of the treacherous taking of his follower was not long in reaching Buccleuch, who at once raised an angry protest.

  16. So it came about that the prison gates swung back for Christie's Will, the halter no longer threatened his neck, and Lord Traquair acquired a follower who to repay his debt of gratitude would stick at nothing.

  17. What if this self-styled harper should turn out to be no minstrel after all, but a hired assassin, a follower of that base churl, his hated foe!

  18. Brochard asks why it is any more impossible that Aenesidemus should have been a follower of Heraclitus than that Protagoras was so, as Protagoras was after all a Sceptic.

  19. Was it worthy of yourself, moreover, to make the devoted follower of your fortunes, a sharer in the danger you so eagerly and wantonly courted!

  20. You are a follower of Jesus, therefore you ought to show yourself an enthusiastic follower, and love to repeat that sacred name.

  21. No one can be a true follower of Thee, O sweet Jesus, who travels by any road save that of Thy cross.

  22. I understand then, dear Jesus, that if I wish to claim the name of follower of Thee, I must imitate Thee in carrying the cross.

  23. Books, and such training in life as they give, she had known; but she had never known a flirtation, a follower or a lover.

  24. A heedless word of this kind turned the zealous follower of Pharisaism into its bitter opponent.

  25. Amongst those who were most fanatical against the Nazarenes was Saul of Tarsus, a zealous follower of the Pharisaic school, who held that no edict of either the oral or the written Law might be tampered with.

  26. His eldest son, the gallant Alexander, was decapitated by order of Scipio, a follower of Pompey, at Antioch.

  27. Izates felt reassured for the time; but another Judaean, a Galilaean of the name of Eleazar, and a strict follower of the Law, came to his court and offered a contrary opinion.

  28. Now is man the follower of the sun, and woman the follower of the moon.

  29. This man, although a follower of the court, and sunned in the celestial presence, had dared to utter vile falsehoods against the celestial dynasty.

  30. Wilfred came up with the intention of rating his follower for his acerbity, but as he marked the fixed expression of the two men, something prevented him interposing.

  31. We are forced to the conclusion that the professed follower of Christ is destitute of Christian principles when he delights himself in worldliness.

  32. A disciple is a follower or learner of Christ.

  33. The professed follower of Christ who loves to sip the wine-cup, and by this text persuades himself to believe he is not violating God’s law, wrests it to his own hurt.

  34. As a tree is known by its fruits, so is a true follower of Christ.

  35. It was unfortunate that out of all the women in New York, Jerry should have fallen in love with the first hypocrite that had come his way, a follower of strange gods, cold, calculating, too selfish even to be sinful!

  36. A follower of the noble Comte de la Seine," was the reply.

  37. Then with a sharp tug he drew out the shining wards and signed to his follower to return.

  38. The King walked onward like one well accustomed to traverse the place, and in another few minutes the great candle his follower bore was casting the dwarf shadow upon the heavy door that blocked the end.

  39. He hurriedly led the way back along the gallery, past the broken cabinet without giving it a moment's concern, and when nearing the private corridor the King stopped short, to clutch his follower by the breast with his left hand.

  40. You are the doctor, the Comte's follower with the strange eye.

  41. He will be a splendid follower to have with us at such a time.

  42. However since the follower certainly would not openly run after him, the most logical thing to do, Bryce decided, was to run to the hotel as if he were in a hurry.

  43. He had barely stopped for a count of ten, and there was still distance between them when he had turned, but the follower could be walking faster now, narrowing the distance between them.

  44. After that the follower could inconspicuously drop his weapon over the balustrade, its self-destroying mechanism set to melt it before it reached the sands far below.

  45. The chief with his follower rode a little ahead of the others, Will, with Antonio and Sancho, following closely behind him.

  46. The chief had already eaten two slices of deer's flesh, and he mounted and rode on with the others, while his follower waited for a minute to eat the flesh that had already been cooked for him.

  47. Long before the others were awake, indeed, the chief and his follower were moving.

  48. Nat gave his follower a meaning look, and a minute later Bolton swung his hockey stick around, almost on a line with Dave's shoulder.

  49. Then Dave slackened his pace, and the follower did likewise.

  50. Count Julian of the Mount has been openly a follower of the court of John of England; and though he is now on his lands, doubtless preparing all for revolt, he has left his daughter, they say, as security for his faith at the court of Rouen.


  51. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "follower" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    addict; adherent; admirer; amateur; apostle; appendage; attendance; attendant; believer; booster; buff; catechumen; chaser; churchman; cohort; collector; communicant; convert; cortege; court; courtier; creature; dependent; devotee; dilettante; disciple; dummy; enthusiast; entourage; fan; fanatic; fiend; figurehead; flunky; follower; following; goon; heeler; helper; henchman; hunter; idolater; infatuate; inferior; jackal; junior; lackey; liege; lightweight; lover; man; masses; minion; neophyte; paramour; parasite; partisan; pawn; peon; proselyte; public; puppet; pursuer; receiver; religionist; retainer; retinue; rout; saint; satellite; secondary; sectary; seeker; serf; servant; shadow; slave; student; subaltern; subordinate; successor; suite; suitor; supporter; sycophant; tail; theist; thug; train; underling; vassal; votary; worshiper; yeoman; zealot