How do you use Sycophants in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, plus the exact meaning.
Sycophants meaning
plural of sycophant
Using Sycophants
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of sycophant
- In the example corpus, sycophants often appears in combinations such as: sycophants and, of sycophants, sycophants to.
Context around Sycophants
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 10 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Sycophants
- In this selection, "sycophants" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, russian, cars, mindless and felt stand out and add context to how "sycophants" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and republican sycophants has taken and called trump sycophants to remind. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "sycophants" sits close to words such as abrasion, abscess and aced, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with sycophants
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
For all the Russian sycophants! (5 words)
And has a following of mindless sycophants. (7 words)
Guess they need all those seats for the sycophants. (9 words)
The New York socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez inquired on Twitter about a similar list, asking if anyone was keeping a record of what she called “Trump sycophants” to remind them should they try to downplay or deny their complicity in the future. (43 words)
The vision of Prime Minister Burnham’s (himself nervous about Guyana becoming a ‘nation of waiters and sycophants’) was of arriving tourists being quickly whisked away from the city to enjoy the beauties of the interior. (36 words)
It features Elphaba as a talented girl arriving at a magical college, only to be bullied by Glinda and a clique of rosy-cheeked sycophants because she happens to have been born with green skin. (35 words)
For all the Russian sycophants! (5 words)
Example sentences (20)
For all the Russian sycophants!
That’s partly the result of growing up obscenely rich; you can’t build grit in an obstacle-free world of chauffeured cars, sycophants and antiseptic penthouses.
And has a following of mindless sycophants.
Dictators veer into extremism because they are surrounded by sycophants who go all out to meet the dear leader’s demands.
Human rights activists are being harassed by security agents daily and Civil Society Organisations, CSOs, have become soft targets of sycophants who speak sweet words to your ears for selfish reasons.
It features Elphaba as a talented girl arriving at a magical college, only to be bullied by Glinda and a clique of rosy-cheeked sycophants because she happens to have been born with green skin.
Sorry, sycophants… The problem is not the three-years-gone pandemic, it is not the strike, it is not that people kicked their moviegoing habit, and it is not a lack of product.
These sick sycophants will seek their own brand if “justice” against some aggrieved corporation.
The vision of Prime Minister Burnham’s (himself nervous about Guyana becoming a ‘nation of waiters and sycophants’) was of arriving tourists being quickly whisked away from the city to enjoy the beauties of the interior.
And they never will be as much as sycophants like Tony Evers wish they were.
As in the 2018 election campaigns, when sycophants felt that Paul Biya was too important to go on the campaign trail or TV debates, now his surrogates are doing it for him again.
Because they fear Clyburn’s reprisals – and his army of well-heeled sycophants.
Except that:since they always have to stand on wrong footings, they are usually not able to convince even fawning sycophants and adulators to accept official falsehood as gospel.
Let us be clear on this point: the motley crowd of sycophants in the opaque presidency can deploy all their propaganda arsenal to burnish the image of their principal, President Muhammadu Buhari.
Our president, according to Mike Pence and Republican sycophants has taken bold a decisive action protecting the nation against the threat of illness.
Take away the virus and the guns, however, and the Space Warriors are simply a group of sycophants with no apparently fighting skill who are far too dependent on their leader, “Twinkle” Maria Murdock.
The New York socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez inquired on Twitter about a similar list, asking if anyone was keeping a record of what she called “Trump sycophants” to remind them should they try to downplay or deny their complicity in the future.
This is what happens when a crazy man is surrounded by sycophants.
Guess they need all those seats for the sycophants.
He needs to be wary of political sycophants within his party who want to turn him into a demigod, as was the case during Mugabe’s long reign as the leader of Zanu-PF.
Common combinations with sycophants
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- sycophants and 8×
- of sycophants 5×
- sycophants to 3×
- sycophants who 3×
- sycophants of 3×
- with sycophants 3×
- cpdm sycophants 2×
- by sycophants 2×
- and sycophants 2×
- trump sycophants 2×