Sample sentences for EVANGELIST

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Definition

a Christian who tries to convince others to become Christian — especially on television, radio, or in large gatherings

or when qualified (such as "an ecosystem evangelist"): anyone who tires to convince others of something

Rick Warren may be today's most admired evangelist.

The well-known evangelist, Billy Graham, filled the stadium.
He was also the vice president of Youth for Christ International, an evangelical organization.
Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken
The third is devoted to the lives and labors of the evangelical ministers who, during the same period, had the care of souls.
Alexis de Toqueville -- Democracy In America, Volume 2
Nowadays, you don't see many families—the husband, wife, and children—that are so evangelistic.
Phil Robertson -- Happy, Happy, Happy: My Life and Legacy as the Duck Commander
Because he had no church into which to lure converts, if there should be any, Kiyoshi Tanimoto soon realized, the futility of this evangelism.
John Hersey -- Hiroshima
This "revival" started tonight with an evangelist named James Robison.
Peter Jenkins -- A Walk Across America
But the Scope of all the Evangelists (as may appear by reading them) was the same.
Thomas Hobbes -- Leviathan
In all honesty, what I believe is neither inspirational nor evangelical.
Jay Allison, et al. -- This I Believe
Evangelist Billy Graham is also warning the president to stay away from Dallas.
Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard -- Killing Kennedy
I slept a little at our hotel in the city, and was awakened by the sounds of an evangelist preaching through a bullhorn outside on the street.
Tracy Kidder -- Strength in What Remains
As if he were some newfound evangelical being conveyed down out of the mountains and north across the flat bleak landscape toward Monclova.
Cormac McCarthy -- All the Pretty Horses
They had built their church there, won a handful of converts and were already sending evangelists to the surrounding towns and villages.
Chinua Achebe -- Things Fall Apart
Echo was taking himself out, telling Delta to go after the impostor — and while doing so to kill the evangelical butcher.
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Supremacy
The only thing that doesn't quite fit is that he seems to be an evangelical and was a member of the Word of Life in the nineties."
Stieg Larsson -- The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
The evangelist was preaching "sin and redemption," the infinite grace of God and His pardon for human frailty.
Upton Sinclair -- The Jungle
CHAPTER XXV The Little Evangelist It was Sunday afternoon.
Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Uncle Tom's Cabin
Usually, we think of them as a product of highly charismatic evangelists, people like the Apostle Paul or Billy Graham or Brigham Young.
Malcolm Gladwell -- The Tipping Point
Lifestyle change, for which I could now preach like an evangelist.
Nora Roberts -- Blood Brothers
All cut up into verses, too; so that it is like one of the other evangelists read in a dream, when things are the same, yet not the same.
Thomas Hardy -- Jude the Obscure

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