Example sentences for: piety

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

  • Grein's hypocritical disdain for his own family is the natural state of Singer's characters, shaped as they are by multiple cultures--Eastern European Jewish piety, radical secularism, American self-invention.

  • Yoritomo’s piety bought him a little more time to enjoy his success; he was 52 when he was thrown by a horse and died of his injuries.

  • It is good to know that, partly through the energetic offices of Henry Louis Gates, black studies can, as it were, pay its way these days and not be dependent for its existence on a kind of political and cultural moralism on the part of whites and a kind of fetishlike piety on the part of blacks.

  • But killing himself with pills might accelerate his reincarnation as a 38DD bra, so better to let him swim along in his pool of piety.)

  • One thing clearly absent from a lot of alternative country, however, is piety.


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