Example sentences for: revere

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

  • People flock to the Lincoln Memorial because they revere Lincoln as a man who rose from humble origins to become president of the United States, save the Union, free the slaves, and write some of the most profound and moving words in the English language.

  • The adjacent Granary Burying Ground contains the graves of many heroes: John Hancock, Paul Revere, Samuel Adams, James Otis, the victims of the Boston Massacre, Robert Treat Paine (the prosecutor at the Boston Massacre trial), and Peter Faneuil.

  • Adjacent King’s Chapel Burial Ground, is the city’s oldest and holds many historical characters: first governor, John Winthrop; William Dawes, who rode with Paul Revere; and Elizabeth Pain, the model for Hawthorne’s Hester Prynne in The Scarlet Letter.

  • The Met's and Boston Museum of Fine Arts' "John Singleton Copley in America" (at the Milwaukee Art Museum through Aug. 25) intersperses the art with colonial furniture, silver (including a Paul Revere teapot similar to the one in Copley's famous portrait), and costumed mannequins "suggesting the coherence of Copley's work in the cultural environment of pre-Revolutionary Boston and New York."

  • The church looks down what the locals call the Prado, officially named Paul Revere Mall.


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