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Example sentences for "supporter"

Lexicographically close words:
supplying; support; supportable; supporte; supported; supporters; supporteth; supporting; supportive; supports
  1. The parish priest of Lehen became a strong supporter of the Bundschuh, and told his parishioners that all its ideas could be proved from the word of God.

  2. To me, and to the state of my great grief, Let kings assemble; for my grief's so great That no supporter but the huge firm earth Can hold it up.

  3. The President was more than glad to patch up the quarrel, for he could ill afford now, in these waning hours of his administration, to part company with one whom he regarded as "an ardent and active political supporter and friend.

  4. While Douglas was in Ohio, he was saddened by the intelligence that Senator Broderick of California, his loyal friend and staunch supporter in the Lecompton fight, had fallen a victim to the animosity of the Southern faction in his State.

  5. With the platform, at least, he found himself in hearty accord; and before the end of the session he convinced his associates on the Democratic side of the House, that he was no lukewarm supporter of the ticket.

  6. Knowing Dixon to be a supporter of the compromise measures of 1850, Douglas begged him not to thwart the work of his committee, which was trying in good faith to apply the cardinal features of those measures to Nebraska.

  7. Discussion with his new friends and with his employer, who was an ardent supporter of Adams and Clay, whetted his appetite for more reading and study.

  8. The good lady had become a staunch supporter of Gyp's new existence, which, in her view, served Fiorsen right.

  9. When the Tories came into power in 1841, with Peel as Prime Minister, he found no place in his government for the supporter whose talent all parties had now begun to recognize.

  10. One late-comer arrived without his academicals, and some zealous supporter of the Dean had to denude himself, and pass his cap and gown outside to enable this gentleman to vote.

  11. Mr. Fudge took a very active part in the Odd Fellows lodge to which he belonged and was a stanch supporter of the republican party.

  12. The republican party has a loyal supporter in Mr. Pearson, but he has confined his political activities to the exercise of his right of franchise.

  13. The Statesman under Mr. Newell was democratic in politics and during the embroglio between President Johnson and Congress it was an active supporter of the former.

  14. He has indeed been a stalwart supporter of the public school system and he does everything in his power to advance the material, intellectual, social and moral interests of the state.

  15. Mr. Yenney is a stanch supporter of the republican party but has never had the time nor inclination to seek office.

  16. Politically Mr. Glover is a republican and is conversant with the leading questions and issues of the day, but while he has been a loyal supporter of his party, he has never sought nor desired public office.

  17. The democratic party has found in him a stanch supporter of its principles and his fellow citizens recognizing his worth and ability elected him state senator in 1912.

  18. Oxygen, though non-combustible of itself, is the most powerful supporter of combustion.

  19. It is therefore called a supporter of combustion.

  20. The combination of a combustible with a supporter of combustion, producing heat, and sometimes both light and heat.

  21. By the citizens of London she was especially beloved, for they always found in her a supporter of trade and commerce.

  22. It was otherwise with the Londoners, and with John de Northampton, a supporter of the duke, who succeeded to the mayoralty soon after the suppression of the revolt.

  23. Yet, as a steady supporter of the interests of the crown, particularly in the course of the city elections, he deserved the honour which Dryden has assigned him, of standing the first in the file of the king's friends.

  24. He was a steady and active supporter of the Tory party on all occasions; in reward of which, he was created Earl of Nottingham.

  25. Besides avenging abundance of personal abuse, Dryden, in the person of Shadwell, chastises a great supporter of the Whig cause and principles.

  26. Matthew is a vehement supporter of the monastic orders against their rivals, the secular clergy and the mendicant friars.

  27. He was a Roman Catholic and a supporter of Louis XIV.

  28. Poland, but soon returned to France to become the energetic supporter and lieutenant of his brother, the 3rd duke of Guise.

  29. Phillips, of Pittsburgh is the ardent supporter of Dr.

  30. To such lengths Luther was, however, not inclined to go; he prized too highly the favour in which he stood with his sovereign to be willing to admit that he was in favour of civil war or a supporter of questionable elements.

  31. Charles V showed himself in religious questions a staunch supporter of the Catholic Church, to which indeed he was most devotedly attached.

  32. You have a half-brother who is a Sag Nicht member of our Legislature, and a great friend and supporter of our Governor and his foreign associates, and he could have turned you out and procured for you an office if you had remained.

  33. He was a zealous supporter of the bill in Congress appropriating a million or two dollars to works of Internal Improvement, which was vetoed by Pierce.

  34. Emily Holland was her firm supporter when the institution was passing through the crisis, and stood by her until she breathed her last.

  35. The following letter to Mure, contains a pretty sagacious division of the prominent political movements of the day, into those which a supporter of the court party would advocate, and those which he would oppose.

  36. Its author, Pierre Nicole, one of the illustrious recluses of the Port Royal, was more efficient as a polemical supporter of the principles of his church, than as a practical administrator of its authority.

  37. But a supporter of the utilitarian system, as it has been more fully developed in later days, would probably only take from Mr. Balfour's argument a hint to enlarge the scope of Hume's investigations.

  38. I had an opportunity of speaking to General Wilson, and on asking him the cause of such strange proceedings, I told him that I was a democrat, and had always been a supporter of the Constitution.

  39. I told him I was not aware of having done anything worthy of such treatment; that I had always been a supporter of the Constitution and of democracy.

  40. A cardinal's hat was obtained for Ascanio Sforza, in whom Lodovico found an able and loyal supporter both in Rome and Milan.

  41. He was a strong supporter of the Marian party, and took part in the blockade of Rome (87).

  42. Oxford, and after various defeats in other constituencies was returned to parliament for South Birmingham as a Unionist supporter of Mr Chamberlain in 1904.

  43. He parted from Gladstone on the question of Irish Home Rule, but in earlier years he was his active supporter on Irish questions.

  44. He was an enthusiastic supporter of John C.

  45. He was a firm supporter of General Washington through all the trials of that period, and firmly stood by him against the intrigue in the army to supersede him with Gates.

  46. Hatred to Mazarin and to the Queen as his supporter is the only motive that sways them.

  47. A more valuable supporter was found in Quintus Sertorius, a soldier of fortune, but a man of real gifts, and even of genius.

  48. An orthodox churchman, a supporter of union under the successor of Peter against the schismatic tendencies of the English Church, he nevertheless repelled any claim on the part of Rome to interference with his political sovereignty.

  49. From first to last he was the loyal supporter and trusty defender of the Plymouth colony.


  50. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "supporter" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abettor; acquaintance; actor; addict; adherent; admirer; advocate; angel; apologist; appendage; arm; attendant; auxiliary; back; backbone; backer; backing; bandeau; bearer; brace; bracer; bracket; brother; buff; buttress; cane; carrier; cervix; champion; cohort; confidant; contributor; corset; courtier; crook; crutch; defender; dependence; dependent; disciple; donor; endorser; enthusiast; exponent; familiar; fan; father; fellow; fellowman; flunky; follower; following; friend; fulcrum; girdle; giver; grantor; guard; guy; hanger; help; henchman; intimate; lover; mainstay; mast; neck; neighbor; paladin; parasite; partisan; party; patron; philanthropist; pickup; pillar; promoter; prop; proponent; protagonist; protector; public; pursuer; reinforcement; reliance; repository; rest; rigging; satellite; second; seconder; sectary; settler; shadow; shoulder; shroud; soldier; spine; sponsor; staff; stalwart; standby; stave; stay; stick; strengthener; subscriber; successor; support; supporter; suspender; sustainer; sympathizer; tail; testator; upholder; vindicator; votary