Example sentences for: devotion

How can you use “devotion” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • For me, Rimbaud never graduated from being an enfant terrible to become a major poet; he only compounded the cliché inaugurated by Villon, that is, combining absinthe-fueled dissipation on slender means with a vacillating devotion to his art.

  • Several articles applaud "soccer moms" Carla Overbeck and Joy Fawcett, as well as Hamm's devotion to her Marine husband overseas ("We've sacrificed so much," Hamm told USA Today ). Even the World Cup's CEO, Marla Messing, is glowingly profiled for stepping aside to stay home with her kids.

  • Henry Adams posited an antithesis between the Dynamo and the Virgin--the mysterious electrical generators he saw at the Great Exhibition of 1900 and the religious devotion that built Chartres Cathedral.

  • Streep should be awarded a rubber chicken for irradiating us with her yokel devotion in One True Thing (1998), but in Dancing at Lughnasa she goes a long way toward winning back her good (well, pretty good) name.

  • Underneath it all is her rock-solid, oppressive devotion to her son.


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