How to Use reverent in a Sentence

reverent

adjective
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  • There was a reverent silence as the banner waved in the wind.
    — NBC News, 7 Nov. 2020
  • The sign is just one of the many items Dickies moved over to its new offices — a reverent nod to its past.
    — Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 Apr. 2024
  • Yes, the Scouts taught skills and virtues to many boys: how to be thrifty, brave, clean and reverent; how not to pitch a tent at the bottom of a hill.
    — John Anderson, WSJ, 5 Sep. 2023
  • The Senior Ring Mass on the evening of Aug. 17 wrapped up the week in a very jubilant yet reverent way.
    — High School Columnist, NOLA.com, 28 Aug. 2017
  • Early in the drive, the search party took one last reverent lap for oak samples.
    — Marion Renault, The New Republic, 20 Dec. 2021
  • George Michael proud with this reverent cover of the Wham! classic.
    — Nate Jones, Vulture, 11 Jan. 2021
  • There was a reverent hush among those watching the eclipse, but it was undercut by the sound of a chainsaw.
    — Rachel Kushner, Harper’s Magazine , 28 Sep. 2022
  • The white rappers did their homework and were reverent of their Black forefathers in the genre.
    — Hazlitt, 25 May 2023
  • Wreaths are then placed on the lawn in front of the Alamo church during a reverent ceremony.
    — San Antonio Express-News, 21 Apr. 2021
  • Both were received by the crowd with a reverent silence, and then very loud applause.
    — Radhika Seth, Vogue, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Titiev’s friends and colleagues speak of him in almost reverent tones.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 5 Mar. 2020
  • The most important of these virtues is a healthy and reverent respect for the equality of all men.
    — Cameron Hilditch, National Review, 18 Sep. 2020
  • Having a fresh and reverent take on the character meant Freeman didn’t have to do what Janet and Daphne did.
    — Washington Post, 2 Jan. 2022
  • Here the saint holds up his hand as if to bless the kneeling people behind him, as well as the reverent animals in front.
    — Mary Dzon, The Conversation, 3 Oct. 2023
  • There was a firing party, prayers and the reverent removal of the American flag from the coffin.
    — New York Times, 8 May 2021
  • Ditlevsen, who died in 1976, is beloved in her native Denmark; today her work is taught in schools and her life is the subject of reverent plays.
    — New York Times, 19 Jan. 2021
  • There are many anecdotes told of these services, most of a reverent nature.
    — sandiegouniontribune.com, 15 Mar. 2018
  • And with every loss comes the knowledge that the world still goes, a fact that can feel like a cheap comfort and reverent promise all wrapped into one.
    — Deboki Chakravarti, Scientific American, 3 Sep. 2021
  • Faced with a flood of upset users, Google claimed that those holidays were too reverent for the jokey nature of a doodle.
    — Avi Selk, Washington Post, 2 Apr. 2018
  • The atmosphere at Les Grands Buffets is calm and even reverent.
    — Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
  • On the show, Tony spoke of him in reverent tones, but Tony also had a tendency to romanticize the past.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 1 Oct. 2021
  • Of course, Jagger and the Stones have been nothing but reverent towards Little Richard.
    — Will Dukes, Rolling Stone, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Cabrini The Bottom Line A reverent biopic in every sense.
    — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Feb. 2024
  • The space is set up like a church, the chairs like pews, but the singing is reverent, the sound is holy — metaphor disperses into actuality — the lyrics are a prayer.
    — Samuel Ernest, Longreads, 2 May 2023
  • Orchids, beautiful but a bit tricky to maintain, hold a reverent beauty to them that ought to be kept.
    — Alex Wagner, SPIN, 12 May 2022
  • The 2007 images are reverent, but the sitting that produced them didn’t go entirely to plan.
    — Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 9 Sep. 2022
  • In the pubs, away from official sites of mourning—on Saturday, the queue to see the Queen’s coffin stretched to five miles—people were less reverent.
    — Anna Russell, The New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2022
  • If a British portraitist is reverent he’s perceived to be doting.
    — Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 9 Sep. 2022
  • The whole enterprise tends to put viewers and actors alike in a mode that a little more reverent than funny.
    — Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 23 Feb. 2023
  • The atmosphere between songs was so reverent that somebody was moved to pierce the tension by blasting an ironic airhorn.
    — Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 21 Mar. 2024

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