How to Use piety in a Sentence

piety

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  • That one makes a great show of piety, said the nun in my ear.
    — Emma Donoghue, The Atlantic, 12 May 2020
  • But the display of piety has done little to mask that the army chief has much to atone for.
    — New York Times, 2 Feb. 2021
  • This doesn’t mean that the pieties are empty or useless.
    — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2023
  • There's little piety among those running the mines that are the main source of income.
    — Fernando Vergara, Star Tribune, 23 Apr. 2021
  • Hollywood and the Republican right have clashed for years over the morals of the silver screen and the piety of the steeple.
    — Jeffrey Fleishman, chicagotribune.com, 24 June 2019
  • To find answers means more truth, less filial piety, and God knows how much more time.
    — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 30 May 2022
  • The poor were thought to be the regime’s last bastion of power, tied to theocracy by piety and the welfare state.
    — Reuel Marc Gerecht and, WSJ, 11 June 2018
  • Eilish’s pop-song tantrums and Keys’s false piety give music the power to keep us apart.
    — Armond White, National Review, 27 Jan. 2020
  • Magnum Photos Khamenei projects a life of piety and service.
    — Karim Sadjadpour, Time, 3 Oct. 2019
  • Trump’s piety, of course, is suspect, while Bush is a true believer.
    — Sarah Jones, The New Republic, 15 Mar. 2018
  • Yet if the uplifting side of the addiction drama can be one of its pieties, in this case it feels earned.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 22 Mar. 2023
  • That’s a serious debit in a movie that is, at least sometimes, about a figure of renowned deep piety.
    — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 2 June 2023
  • The Virgin of Kings, dressed in orchid pink, gazed down at this scene of historical piety.
    — Aatish Taseer Richard Mosse, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2022
  • Laws require all women to at least wear a headscarf, or hijab, to cover their hair as a sign of piety.
    — Jon Gambrell and Mike Corder, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Things Lu couldn’t account for, all the sorrow and spite, the vitriol and piety, that suddenly had free rein.
    — The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2021
  • The variety and richness of the images are astonishing, and attest to both the king’s piety and ego.
    — Joshua Hammer, Smithsonian, 21 Nov. 2019
  • Many of the men have beards, a hallmark of Islamic piety, and many of the women wear ankle-long dresses and hijab.
    — Hamza Hendawi, Fox News, 13 June 2018
  • The satire is largely aimed at the kind of pieties about inclusion that are espoused by woke white liberals.
    — Jesse Green, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2018
  • Throughout the conference, Rohr dished out a series of barbs aimed at Christian piety.
    — Fred Bahnson, Harpers Magazine, 5 Jan. 2021
  • Besides water control, they've been said to ward off evil and to frighten passers-by into piety.
    — CBS News, 27 Oct. 2019
  • Paying one’s respects to the past, through memorialization of some kind, is an act of piety.
    — Washington Post, 4 Mar. 2022
  • The safety nets Asia is weaving might even spare some people from long, listless waits outside a mosque, hoping to be fed by the piety of strangers.
    — The Economist, 12 Apr. 2018
  • Offences include even the most innocuous forms of piety, such as sporting long beards.
    — The Economist, 5 Mar. 2020
  • The region’s piety, Dutch roots and beer culture provide fertile soil for these gatherings to grow.
    — David De Jong, WSJ, 22 Oct. 2020
  • Rivers’ body language alludes to his piety and pragmatism.
    — Lauren Warnecke, chicagotribune.com, 17 Oct. 2019
  • The film is propelled by liberal pieties that are now outdated.
    — Armond White, National Review, 26 Apr. 2024
  • But as the Promise Keeper teens’ carnal urges begin to rise, that pledge of piety becomes harder to uphold.
    — Brittani Samuel, Washington Post, 20 Mar. 2024
  • MacArthur, a renowned Reformed preacher whose piety comes with a healthy dose of pugnacity, had strong words for those pastors.
    — Daniel Burke, CNN, 12 Aug. 2020
  • But Buchdahl’s piety is precisely the source of his politics.
    — New York Times, 2 Nov. 2021
  • It is worn by Muslim women to serve as a religious symbol of modesty, privacy and piety.
    — Jose R. Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 2 May 2024

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