Example sentences for: reverence

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

  • Kutchins and Kirk like to refer to the DSM as "psychiatry's bible," implying that it inspires reverence and is in need of suspicious interpretation, but the DSM is better described as psychiatry's dictionary.

  • In Ofanim , Berio has combined his search for new technologies with a reverence for rituals and ancient theater: Microphones picked up sounds from the stage and computers tossed them to speakers in the balconies and back again, letting chords and passages hang in the air like incense.

  • The Hanukkah lesson being taught, Sklare noted, was no longer reverence to God for performing a miracle but rather the triumph over religious intolerance--a perfect message for liberal America in the age of the civil rights movement.

  • Every language deserves respect and reverence.

  • 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.


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