Example sentences for: devout

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

  • An article describes a new medical study about prayer: When devout "healers" prayed for the health of arthritic patients--without the patients' knowledge--the patients' health improved.

  • Family visits are especially important to aliens wishing to preserve their cultural heritage and at Christmas time, which is a particularly significant season to devout Mexican Catholics.

  • Bayoumi is a devout Muslim, obliging and gregarious.

  • The same can be said for altars, nacimientos (nativity scenes), and camposanto (cemetery) graves, which are assembled with artistic care, while always communicating a devout religious sentiment.

  • At a press conference following the screening of his film Dogma , which will have its first public showing October 4 as part of the New York Film Festival, the writer, director, and professed devout Catholic Kevin Smith appeared both shell-shocked and befuddled by the outrage that his movie, sight unseen, had provoked.


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