Example sentences for: reverent

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

  • screamed the National Enquirer ), but they all weighed in with elaborately reverent photo tributes that were virtually indistinguishable from those in the mainstream press.

  • Compare Eastwood with Charlie Parker, for instance, whom Eastwood idolizes and about whom he made the reverent biopic Bird (1988).

  • An amusing series of titles that open the film now urge the audience not to get too worked up--to see the movie not as a fanatical attack on religion but as a reverent goof.

  • If patriots make a reverent pilgrimage to Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame (just off Lakeshore Boulevard West at Exhibition Place) to salute heroic athletes of the past, the separate Hockey Hall of Fame provides a tonic lesson for American visitors to recall, among the trophies, masks, skates, and hockey sticks, the fact that nearly all their ice hockey heroes are Canadian-born.

  • The less reverent version is that it launched the era of gaudy action movies and movie-based mass merchandising, and that its carefully scripted revival--complete with licensing deals for tacos, toys, and Christmas ornaments--does it perfect justice.


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