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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.
M y Son the Fanatic is built on incongruities--on the juxtaposition of fierce Islamic piety and amiable Western dissolution.
For this painter who once claimed to be "daffy with piety," our earthly habitation, slave cabin, or peasant hovel is merely temporary.
The early A Pair of Shoes (1885) reeks of some of that same piety.
A half-century later, Austen's great-nephew wrote a classically priggish memoir that cast Jane as the perfect Victorian lady, a superwoman of piety and self-denial.