How do you use Adherent in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like adhesive or disciple, plus the exact meaning.
Adherent meaning
- Adhesive, sticking to something.
- Having the quality of clinging or sticking fast to something.
- Attaching or pressing against a different organ.
Using Adherent
- The main meaning on this page is: Adhesive, sticking to something. | Having the quality of clinging or sticking fast to something. | Attaching or pressing against a different organ.
- Useful related words include: adhesive, disciple, follower.
- In the example corpus, adherent often appears in combinations such as: adherent of, an adherent, adherent to.
Context around Adherent
- Average sentence length in these examples: 29.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 10 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Adherent
- In this selection, "adherent" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 29.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, loosely, tightly, qanon, earlier, advocate and cells stand out and add context to how "adherent" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a boogaloo adherent earlier this and a determined adherent to the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "adherent" sits close to words such as abstention, acadiana and actuarial, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with adherent
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
I am a free thinker and not an adherent to any groups, okay? (13 words)
Amanda Kloots, who just made a 7-layer bar for them, is an avid adherent. (15 words)
Guo, who goes by other names including Miles Guo, himself is an adherent to the false claim. (17 words)
I don’t mean to imply he is our carpenter in a Downton Abbey way, just that, as an adherent of the philosophy of ‘slow living’, he has been building a shed for us for so many years that I now think of him as a permanent feature of cottage life. (51 words)
In his affidavit in support of the suit, the plaintiff claimed that, “I am a legal practitioner, an apostle of the rule of law, an adherent of constitutionalism, social justice crusader and defender of rights of all citizens, to live in unity and peace. (44 words)
This right requires fundamental obedience — for Gandhi, not to the state, not to the nation, and certainly not to law or courts — to truth and non-violence and a recognition of the right of others to be equally adherent to their conscience. (42 words)
I am a free thinker and not an adherent to any groups, okay? (13 words)
Example sentences (20)
Pseudomembranes consist of a combination of inflammatory cells and exudates, and are loosely adherent to the conjunctiva, while true membranes are more tightly adherent and cannot be easily peeled away.
A QAnon adherent was arrested on felony charges for allegedly setting up booby traps at her home that wound up injuring a door-to-door salesman.
Guo, who goes by other names including Miles Guo, himself is an adherent to the false claim.
I don’t mean to imply he is our carpenter in a Downton Abbey way, just that, as an adherent of the philosophy of ‘slow living’, he has been building a shed for us for so many years that I now think of him as a permanent feature of cottage life.
In his affidavit in support of the suit, the plaintiff claimed that, “I am a legal practitioner, an apostle of the rule of law, an adherent of constitutionalism, social justice crusader and defender of rights of all citizens, to live in unity and peace.
Amanda Kloots, who just made a 7-layer bar for them, is an avid adherent.
Despite his complaints, Griffin, whose campaign website identifies him as an adherent to the controversial conservative judicial concepts of originalism and textualism, has made his own stance on abortion rights clear.
A Santa Cruz county police officer and a federal officer in Oakland were murdered, allegedly by a boogaloo adherent, earlier this month, and boogaloo members in California’s Bay Area have reportedly been plotting to kidnap elected leaders’ children.
Wiener said that he’s received hundreds of death threats because of his work on the legislation and that an adherent of QAnon, a fringe, pro-Trump conspiracy theory, published his home address in a social media post.
He has proved himself to be a consistent, aggressive advocate for the people he serves and not an erratic adherent to the progressive fads of the day.
The correct diagnosis was not made until the following day, and the woman then underwent an emergency caesarean section which was complicated by excessive blood loss with the placenta low lying and abnormally adherent.
A constitutionalist is an adherent, advocate and of our constitution, all our Legislators and Governors to defend the constitution.
At the clinic I went to, add-ons included embryo glue, an adherent that may improve the chance of an embryo implanting in the womb, costing £330.
However, Judge Patrick Field QC told Mala he did not think he was a "misguided individual" but that "these were the deliberate and repeated acts of a determined adherent to the IS creed".
I am a free thinker and not an adherent to any groups, okay?
This right requires fundamental obedience — for Gandhi, not to the state, not to the nation, and certainly not to law or courts — to truth and non-violence and a recognition of the right of others to be equally adherent to their conscience.
Adherent cells can also be transfected using electroporation, providing researchers with an alternative to trypsinizing their cells prior to transfection.
A far-seeing and faithful adherent of the emperor and empire, he accomplished much for his domain by economy, love of order and wise direction of activities of his state officials.
An adherent of Manichaeism is called, especially in older sources, Such as the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers First Series, ed. Philip Schaff, writing of Augustine a Manichee, or more recently Manichaean.
Another key aspect of Reform doctrine is the personal autonomy of each adherent, who may formulate his own understanding and expression of his religiosity.
Common combinations with adherent
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- adherent of 19×
- an adherent 15×
- adherent to 9×
- faithful adherent 2×