cult
Example Sentences
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The cult star promised covers of metal staples like Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden and Judas Priest, as well as "a few originals forged in the same cosmic fire."
From Barron's
Routledge learned that the islanders’ “social existence” had once revolved around what she called the bird cult—an annual competition to “obtain the first egg of a certain migratory sea-bird.”
Craven, who also made the cult "Nightmare on Elm Street" films, died in 2015 after working on four Scream films with Williamson.
From Barron's
The Hungarian photographer recoiled at the work of American photographers such as Ansel Adams, whose “cult of technical perfection,” according to Patricia Albers, risked “killing their subjects with irrelevant detail.”
In their own ways, each is a cult leader.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.