Example sentences for: pius

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

  • Tempers flare over the validity of British journalist Cornwell's claim that Pope Pius XII failed to speak out against Nazi genocide because he was an anti-Semite.

  • Cardinal Carlo Borromeo, nephew of Pope Pius IV and Archbishop of Milan (1565–1584), was the exemplary spiritual leader of Italy’s Counter-Reformation.

  • It portrays the Medici clan led by Lorenzo the Magnificent in what is in fact an allegory of an ecumenical council with Pope Pius II in Florence.

  • In his best core-curriculum name-dropping style, Will compared Miss Manners on the civilizing power of social convention to Plato, Burke, Lincoln, Metternich, the Founding Fathers, and Pope Pius IX.

  • A fine aqueduct stands as a monument to the skills of the Roman engineers who constructed it during the reign of Antoninus Pius in the second century a.d.


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