Sample Sentences foradherent (editor-reviewed)
adherent as in: an adherent of the philosophy
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She was a devoted adherent of Buddhist philosophy, meditating daily and following its teachings closely.adherent = a supporter or follower of a particular set of beliefs
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As an adherent to strict vegetarianism, she refused even to eat honey or wear leather.adherent = someone devoted or committed to a practice or principle
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I watched him closely that night, and to me it seemed he was trying to live in both worlds, to be a loyal adherent to all creeds. (source)adherent = follower
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Alone, scared, killing before someone can kill him, a firm adherent to the first rule, until he broke it by letting me go and then bringing me back. (source)adherent = strict follower
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McCandless's apparent sexual innocence, however, is a corollary of a personality type that our culture purports to admire, at least in the case of its more famous adherents. (source)adherents = people devoted or committed to a practice or principle
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The two outcasts shaved off their hair, and soon they were the strongest adherents of the new faith. (source)adherents = devoted followers
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There is a cultural movement in the white working class to blame problems on society or the government, and that movement gains adherents by the day. (source)adherents = followers or supporters of that belief
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He gathered quite a following of lads interested in the exhibition; and one that had cut his finger and had been a centre of fascination and homage up to this time, now found himself suddenly without an adherent, and shorn of his glory.† (source)
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In Russia, whatever the endeavor, if the setting is glorious and the tenor grandiose, it will have its adherents. (source)adherents = followers or people devoted to it
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But the judge was an adherent of proper protocol and wanted that to show in the record.† (source)
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He was deprived of his weapons; and with his family and several of his bravest adherents, he sailed north from Boston to Great Bay, where he must have passed by two earlier New Hampshire outposts—what was then called Strawbery Banke, at the mouth of the Pascataqua (now Portsmouth), and the settlement in Dover. (source)adherents = followers or supporters
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He was replaced by one Jan Hinckart, Lord of Ohain, a loyal adherent of Orange.† (source)
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A sprinkling of applause greeted the illusion, gathering adherents from all parts of the auditorium until it reached its short crescendo and died away. (source)adherents = supporters
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The Professor—besides being neither liberal nor remotely a socialist, as Sophie had first told me—was a charter adherent of a blazingly reactionary political faction known as the National Democratic party, nicknamed ENDEK, one of whose guiding precepts was a militant anti-Semitism.† (source)
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Dislinear plotting and non-contiguous prose have their adherents, not the least of which am I, but in the end, my friends, it is character which wins or loses immortality upon the vellum. (source)adherents = supporters or advocates
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All the world was there, artists, journalists, professors, business men, and of course every adherent of pleasure in the town.† (source)
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meaning too rare to warrant focus
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Two were tears from someone trying to remove an adherent cancerous mass.
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adherent = clinging
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