Example sentences for: devout

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

  • A truly devout free-market believer should--if he is consistent--decry this as unwarranted government interference.

  • The house where he died in 1882 (his tomb is nearby) is now a museum, practically a sanctuary, where devout patriots refer to him not by name, but as l’Eroe, “the Hero. ”

  • And for that devout motorcycle thug on your Christmas list, there's a black T-shirt with a skull and crossbones captioned "2 nd death" on the front and, on the back, a spiky, harsh drawing of the Crucifixion, captioned "It's hell without Jesus."

  • I'm not sure if the correspondents realize that the Hindu concept of Brahman has been around considerably longer than Sullivan's cross-pollination of something like the following: a powerful (yet devout) bearded man, a cool breeze on a clear summer night, a John Lennon tune, and the Lion King.

  • The more devout Californians were convinced God was punishing San Francisco for its gold lust and sinfulness when an earthquake, registering 8.25 on the Richter Scale, struck the city at 5:13am on 18 April 1906.


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