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Example sentences for: pious

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A pious Muslim, puritanical in both clothes and personal tastes, he banished music from the court and burned the portraits of princes as breaches of the Islamic taboo on graven images.
A danger of injecting "values" more fully into school curricula, however, is that if it isn't done thoughtfully, it will end up presenting certain pious and erroneous sentiments as fact.
Merkin doubts Bloom's claim that she was helpless: "One can discern, through the pious gloss Bloom puts on the events of her life, the shrewd maneuverings of a stage brat."
In religion-soaked colonial New England, pieces of movable type show up frequently during excavations of early sites; they don't show up at all at sites of comparable age in less aggressively pious Virginia.)
One of the features of this style was the alliterating, punning phrase, often used as a headline--wasted wowsers vied with watery wowsers and indeed with weird and worried wowsers, and the exercise was often carried to extremes--witness collocations like pious, Puritanical, pragmatical, pulpit-pounding self-pursuers whom we call wowsers, or bald-headed, bad-breathed, bible-banging bummer, who ought to be banged with a bowser.