reverently

Example Sentences

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Natalie took the phone carefully, almost reverently, and punched in her mom’s number with shaking hands.

From Literature

Grinches, by contrast, are more likely to be working actors like Darnell, who look reverently to Carrey’s performance as a blueprint for the character’s slapstick antics and snarky reads.

From Los Angeles Times

Muivah studied briefly in Beijing's College of Diplomacy, visited Vietnam and came back speaking reverently of Mao and Zhou Enlai - though he would later fuse their ideology with a deeply Christian nationalism.

From BBC

After one of star Cynthia Erivo’s solos, the audience clapped so loud, long and reverently, that tears came to the singer’s eyes — which only caused the crowd to cheer harder.

From Los Angeles Times

“I see the hand of God in her,” Trujillo says reverently.

From Los Angeles Times