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How to use reverent in a sentence

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We are expected to keep our nose to the grindstone at work, be mindful at school and be reverent in church.
The stillness and quiet of the night made the place seem almost reverent, as if something long ago had happened here.
Imagine my surprise when they spontaneously sang with me again, but this time in hushed and reverent tones.
Actors follow the set's mimicry, all meticulously reverent without adding a jot of originality to their filmic templates.
Everyone was treated by Sr. Monica as another Christ and dealt with in a reverent, respectful way.
The Table is a place of feasting and refreshment, but also a place of mystery tinged with reverent fear.
As he got older and his reviews got more reverent, the films tended to get less interesting, though watching him was almost always a pleasure.
Well call me cynical, but I think that when she talks about the incident to her friends, it will not be in reverent tones.
The festive season of Christmas was observed in the usual reverent and enjoyable manner by the community in Bunclody.
Nicola absolutely loved it, and ran her fingers over the unhemmed material of the skirt in reverent awe.
Gone were the days of standing in reverent respect whenever a physician entered the room, Weidner says.
She joins me in sending the most reverent thanks for your generously bestowed solicitudes.
Everything was done with the ancestors and the seventh generation yet to come in mind, a reverent model of accountability.
People have been duped for long enough by a pompous officialdom and an over reverent Press full of its own conceit and self-importance.
But the need to break clear from the suffocation of reverent togetherness is not just a matter of philosophical self-respect.
But there was the usual reverent silence, broken by the occasional embarrassed cough or ripple of restrained applause.
Prostration depicts a reverent figure stretching low across a broad canvas.
He paused, watching the rainbows of refracted light from it sparkle on the shelves and walls, an expression of almost reverent awe on his face.
In his past work, David Lynch has often presented seniors as if they were circus freaks, but here his approach is reverent and respectful.
The presence of three Bishops and numerous Priests made the Ceremony solemn, simple, prayerful and reverent.
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Examples from Classical Literature
He is so very young and reverent and tender, and in a way so unsophisticated.
She was permitted to dust those she could reach, and her touch was reverent and gentle.
Many a firstling of verse found its way to her, inscribed with reverent or loving words by the author.
Therefore I take it away as innocuously as possible, and touch his soft pompadour, in passing, with a reverent hand.
Said it made him feel kind of reverent and holy, almost as if he was in Paradise.
The bourgeoisie has stripped of its halo every occupation hitherto honoured and looked up to with reverent awe.
Now, as I look back, I think it was sheer priggishness to resist so human and yet so reverent an impulse.
Others, more reverent, suffer the agony of augmenting shines.
Think of Milton, Shakespeare, Washington, standing before a reverent world tricked out in the glass beads, the brass ear-rings and tin trumpery of the savages of the plains!
Why sufficeth not the beast of burden, which renounceth and is reverent?
The world must remain in a reverent doubt as to whether he would, on the same principles, have presented a diplomatist to a dipsomaniac or a ratiocinator to a rat catcher.
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