Example sentences for: observant

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

  • He refused to introduce her to his Hamburg friends because, he told her, they were religious Muslims and her refusal to become more observant embarrassed him.

  • The raising of my consciousness as a Jew began at 21, when I married a Jewish girl whose family and community background were much more Jewish than mine, although she was still not an observant Jew.

  • As many News Quiz participants asserted, ours is a very observant, very Christian nation, so please be sensitive to the displays of religiosity that are so common this time of year, often with elaborate lighting.

  • Indeed, she's one of the few deeply observant characters you're likely to encounter who "does not romanticize religion.

  • Cynthia Ozick, the American-born doyenne of contemporary observant Jewish writers, used to make her heroes and heroines refugees from the Nazis, struggling to fortify their shredded piety against the American profanity.


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