reverence

Example Sentences

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An American flag waved in the background while various figures gazed up at the president in reverence.

From Barron's • Apr. 13, 2026

Joseph navigated those years in the wake with unadorned reverence, while starting a family of his own and directing some of the most transcendent music videos of the 2010s.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 4, 2026

My donut dealer for the morning, Karla, places my Boldúmen in a box with a kind of reverence.

From Salon • Feb. 5, 2026

Contemporaries were convinced that his motivation for publishing Mansfield’s ephemera wasn’t so much reverence for her talent as greed for hard cash.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026

A trailing plant with flowers like small white stars had bound itself across the brows as if in reverence for the fallen king, and in the crevices of his stony hair yellow stonecrop gleamed.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien