Example sentences for: reverence

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

  • Fanned out in six rooms arranged like a beehive, with the lights turned low to protect the fragile treasures (and lend a mood of reverence to the occasion), the enthralling show is called "Michelangelo and His Influence: Drawings from Windsor Castle."

  • 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.

  • The Natives, rightful owners of the land, are immutable, their pithy pidginisms ("Man builds great boats of iron, but the sea is stronger") deserving of the utmost reverence ("You must remember what he said.

  • For a work whose "climax" depends on feelings of the most passionate revulsion to be esteemed ahead of your own labors, so far superior as to be undeserving of inclusion in the same tormented sentence, is, my dearest Edith, an insult insufferable to all whose reverence for literature anglais is to be warranted.

  • One of the great contributions of the late Joseph Heller was his understanding of how ideas and phrases get repeated with mindless reverence in bureaucratic cultures.


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