Example sentences for: worshipful

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

  • A Fourth of July essay says Americans are too worshipful of the Founding Fathers and the Constitution.

  • They deem its tone appropriately "admiring but not worshipful" (Richard Bernstein, the New York Times ). And they praise its focus on Robinson's stubbornly independent political activism.

  • There is a spate of worshipful Web sites devoted to her, and a breathless and wildly premature biography by Kim Chernin and Renate Stendhal, Cecilia Bartoli: The Passion of Song , which describes her as "a sensuous, embodied angel, standing quietly on a concert stage as she report[s] back to God about the mysterious joys and sorrows of human existence."

  • This silence impresses those who cover him: Compare the media's worshipful treatment of Rubin with its scorn of publicity-seekers such as Housing Secretary Andrew Cuomo or Treasury Secretary-designate Larry Summers, Rubin's longtime deputy.


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