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.


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