pious

Example Sentences

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The sun was eclipsed, horses were spooked and the pious dropped to their knees.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026

And two Americans: Kenyon, a wry, observant, skeptical humanist sculptor, perhaps a stand-in for Hawthorne himself; and Hilda, a New England Puritan painter—self-possessed, pious, unswervingly loyal, pure as a flight of doves.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

Erdogan, a devout Muslim and graduate of a clerical school, has previously said he aims to raise a "pious generation".

From Barron's • Feb. 25, 2026

William Ruto is Kenya's first evangelical Christian president, cultivating a pious image and earning him the nickname of "deputy Jesus".

From BBC • Jul. 4, 2025

This father was a good man, a kind gentle man, perhaps a pious man, perhaps a holy man—but all these were not qualities which could win the boy.

From "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse