reverent

Example Sentences

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James Babson, a longtime doorman at the Hotel Cafe, said its staff and attendees alike have always been reverent toward performers.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 30, 2025

"It was so vibrant and so alive. A reverent and gracious… and wonderful, wonderful energy," he said.

From BBC • Dec. 27, 2025

He opens with the hymn “Abide With Me,” played in a reverent manner.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 11, 2025

The Edmund Fitzgerald had become one of the most lasting cultural touchstones of the digital age: a meme—albeit a strangely reverent one.

From Slate • Nov. 10, 2025

There was something solemn and reverent about the way they huddled within those shadowed niches, their voices soft enough to be indistinct, as though they were praying in tabernacles.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros