Example sentences for: reverence

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

  • But we should worry that our materialism is making us lose our reverence for nature.

  • But reverence can also cause damage: on the 13th-century bronze statue of St. Peter near the main altar, attributed to Florentine architect-sculptor Arnolfo di Cambio, the lips and fingers of countless pilgrims have worn away the toes of its right foot.

  • In creative writing programs, his focused prose and reverence for facts are touted as the great model for literary journalism.

  • Ever since priests, scholars, and poets used writing to record Scripture, prayer law, and history both exalted and prosaic, reverence for canonical writings has lent an august power to written words themselves.

  • A more probable explanation attributed to a thoughtful historian named Bill Tate is that cruciform crevasses, in winter filled with snow, that are visible on the mountainside from San Gabriel, the first Spanish capital, reminded Juan de Oñate, the leader of the first successful Spanish colonizing expedition, of the cross he wore to symbolize membership in a lay religious order devoted to reverence for the Precious Blood of Christ.


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