Example sentences for: devout

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

  • My wife and I are devout Catholics, and it seems that going to a pagan ceremony goes against all our religious beliefs.

  • Mzoudi described himself as a weak Muslim when he was home in Morocco, but much more devout when he was back in Hamburg.

  • In the side halls there are shrines where the devout can appeal to the proper god to cure eye problems, ensure the birth of a son, pass an examination, get a good job, and increase longevity.

  • 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.

  • 29 Hazmi and Mihdhar visited other mosques as well, mixing comfortably as devout worshippers.


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