Example sentences for: piety

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

  • The left wall is allegorical, devoted to the bankers’ widely acknowledged virtues, Prudence, Justice, Fortitude, and Temperance, while religious themes invoke their piety on the other walls.

  • 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.

  • Most Americans tell poll-takers that they believe in God, but few of them in a way that would make it impossible to take His name in vain: That requires an Old Testament piety that disappeared from American middle-class life a long time ago.

  • Nossa Senhora da Piedade (Our Lady of Piety) was originally founded just after the island’s discovery during the early- to middle-15th century.

  • Ponta da Piedade (Point of Piety) is the mother of all stack and cliff formations along the Algarve, a stunning terracotta family of bridges, terraces, and grottoes.


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