fanatics

Example Sentences

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Back home, writing on his blog in his other, secret identity, he decried the leaflet as a blatant attempt “to distort history” to justify the fanatics’ actions.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 6, 2017

In a sport open only to the absurdly dedicated—it takes years to master the rudiments of surfing, and constant practice to maintain even basic competence—Mark is the fanatics’ fanatic.

From Slate • Jul. 8, 2012

Orient, See Islam Pal, Bepin Chander, on Montagu-Chelmsford Report, 218; on social revolution in India, 277 Palestine, Sykes-Picot Agreement and, 185; England in, 185 Pan-Islam, fanatics' scheme for, 33 ff.; definition of, 37 ff.;

From The New World of Islam by Stoddard, Lothrop

Of course Protagoras would not have admitted the justice of this argument any more than Heracleitus would have acknowledged the 'uneducated fanatics' who appealed to his writings.

From Theaetetus by Jowett, Benjamin

He was Lawrence Oliphant, just from Japan, where he had been wounded in the fanatics' attack on the British Legation.

From The Education of Henry Adams by Adams, Henry