How to Use atheist in a Sentence

atheist

noun

• The claim that atheists were the cause of these holocausts is false.
  — Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, 8 Aug. 2019
• Sami Al-Asady met an atheist for the first time in eighth grade.
  — AZCentral.com, 26 Sep. 2021
• Meanwhile, the number of atheists has risen from 1% to 3%.
  — P.z. | Istanbul, The Economist, 1 July 2019
• Nathan Bigler of Salt Lake City is an atheist with teen children.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 Dec. 2021
• Just like people of faith, not all atheists believe the same things.
  — Harmeet Kaur, CNN, 10 Mar. 2024
• For starters, Luther was, of course, anything but a godless atheist.
  — Paul Kengor, National Review, 9 Sep. 2020
• No dice — Saint John the Forerunner knows Clarence is an atheist.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 12 Jan. 2024
• Lucky Harry Dean Stanton plays a desert-dwelling atheist staring down the end of life.
  — Kevin Crust, latimes.com, 24 Sep. 2017
• Greg Lockwood, who presides over a church in Waldo, was a staunch atheist for much of his life.
  — Anne Kniggendorf, kansascity.com, 13 May 2017
• As a 93-year-old atheist, Scalfari will find out soon enough if hell exists.
  — Judie Vegh, cleveland.com, 4 Apr. 2018
• Believers and atheists alike could agree that would be mean.
  — Jim Stingl, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 Jan. 2018
• Think of it as scientific proof of the old saying that there are no atheists in the foxhole.
  — Bryan Walsh, Time, 7 Aug. 2017
• Across the street from the convention center, a mix of gay rights activists and atheists teamed to protest Westboro.
  — Monroe Trombly, Cincinnati.com, 6 Sep. 2017
• Ms Lankesh was also an atheist and a staunch left-winger, whose views had earned her enemies far and wide.
  — The Economist, 23 Sep. 2017
• Like someone once said, there are no atheists in foxholes.
  — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Mar. 2018
• Anyone with half of a brain knows there are far more atheists on death row than Lutherans or Baptists.
  — Wired Letters Department, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2006
• There are as many of them as atheists and agnostics combined (7% each).
  — Peter Smith, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2023
• This person, an atheist, was invited to a bar mitzvah and didn’t want to go.
  — Amy Dickinson, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Oct. 2022
• This person, an atheist, was invited to a Bar Mitzvah and didn’t want to go.
  — Amy Dickinson, Chicago Tribune, 13 Oct. 2022
• The Bolsheviks were atheists, and religion was expunged from the whole of the new Russian state.
  — Karl Ove Knausgaard, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2018
• Certified atheists will take care of your pets if you are swept away on Judgment Day.
  — Author: Shannyn Moore, Alaska Dispatch News, 10 Sep. 2017
• The fire station itself was under threat, and people began to pray, even the atheists among them.
  — Washington Post, 8 Jan. 2020
• The group has been linked to killings and attacks on secular academics and atheist bloggers in Bangladesh.
  — Crimesider Staff, CBS News, 13 Dec. 2017
• Savarkar was an atheist, but that was no obstacle to his mission.
  — Hartosh Singh Bal, Foreign Affairs, 12 Apr. 2024
• There is an adage that says there are no atheists in foxholes — even skeptics will pray when facing death.
  — Emma Goldberg Desiree Rios, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2024
• Hesse, now an atheist, has few good things to say about the good many evangelical churches do.
  — Sandra Dallas, Denver Post, 1 Feb. 2026
• This is even true of the cold, hard atheists—the effective altruists.
  — Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2026
• Kelson is a man of science and an atheist, but not without a touch of mysticism.
  — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 13 Jan. 2026
• Gervais is an outspoken atheist and has drawn criticism for his comments on trans people.
  — Melissa Locker, Time, 12 Jan. 2026
• Tom’s late wife was an atheist.
  — Grace Byron, Vulture, 6 Oct. 2025