loyalists

Example Sentences

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The strategy allows him to install loyalists quickly while avoiding prolonged scrutiny of their qualifications.

From Salon • Jun. 3, 2026

By the end, the dressing room had fractured into three camps: a small group of loyalists, a larger group who actively resented him, and a numb majority who had simply stopped caring.

From BBC • May 13, 2026

As ever, the loyalists will go where the money talks.

From Slate • Apr. 28, 2026

It needs a story to tell loyalists about why it can stop.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026

At nineteen he married a rich widow fourteen years his senior, but at the outbreak of revolution in the colonies he unwisely sided with the loyalists, for a time spying on their behalf.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson