DEVOTEE in a Sentence
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Example sentences for DEVOTEE, such as:
1. A devotee of the opera, he bought season tickets every year.
2. Evidently he was a devotee of boots, for he had purchased four pairs, and was now trying on a fifth.
2. Evidently he was a devotee of boots, for he had purchased four pairs, and was now trying on a fifth.
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Meanings and Examples of DEVOTEE
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devotee
n. enthusiastic follower; one who is devoted or self-dedicated to a cause or practice
Classic Sentence:
1 A formidable warrior, his thin and severe features retained the soldier's fierceness of expression; an ascetic bigot, they were no less marked by the emaciation of abstinence, and the spiritual pride of the self-satisfied devotee.
2 An environment which would have made a contented woman a poet, a suffering woman a devotee, a pious woman a psalmist, even a giddy woman thoughtful, made a rebellious woman saturnine.
3 And there was a resemblance in him to a devotee of a mad religion, blood-sucking, muscle-wrenching, bone-crushing.
4 Evidently he was a devotee of boots, for he had purchased four pairs, and was now trying on a fifth.
5 One day I took it into my head to step into a mosque, where I saw an old Iman and a very pretty young devotee who was saying her paternosters.
6 Fired by recollections of fakirs and devotees in illustrations Colin suggested that they should all sit cross-legged under the tree which made a canopy.
7 Candide would do nothing for him; but the devotees assured him it was the new fashion.
Example Sentence:
1 A devotee of the opera, he bought season tickets every year.