God-fearing

Example Sentences

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Like many of Walterboro’s roughly 5,400 inhabitants, she described Hill as a quintessential Southern belle—churchgoing, God-fearing and ready with a smile or an offer of sweet tea.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 24, 2026

The pastor there, Caroline Atieno, remembers a "wonderful... God-fearing person".

From BBC • Sep. 13, 2024

The story follows Dawn O’Keefe, a God-fearing good girl — surrounded by shame-lobbing, not-so-good men — whose body has a sharp sense of justice.

From New York Times • Mar. 27, 2024

It’s heartbreaking how he could only swing like a pendulum between being out and God-fearing.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 30, 2023

This ‘King’ you’re asking about, I hear many people—those that went to school and can read newspapers— say that he was a God-fearing man who died fighting to set his people free.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane