Example sentences for: reverence

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

  • The note of satire in Penn's performance is a hedge against the reverence that dampened such jazz sagas as Bertrand Tavernier's 'Round Midnight (1986), while the gorgeousness of the playing is a hedge against the satire.

  • And having seen one of the famous public schools at rather too close quarters back when I was 14, during your sabbatical year in London, I think that if I were British, I'd be more likely to approach those charming and inessential aspects of British society with a box of explosives than with the Spectator 's pious reverence (and on the Speccie in particular, you'll remember Ian Buruma's devastating account of the place in his book Anglomania ).

  • The spirit is rather one of camp reverence.

  • The corollary of this reverence is an often underarticulated feeling of generational self-loathing.

  • Yes, he wanted to affirm his reverence for God and Jesus, but he also wanted to give a hot-foot to the Catholic Church.


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