How to Use reverential in a Sentence

reverential

adjective
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  • Alana Uriell speaks of the Aviara Golf Club in near reverential tones.
    — Bill Center, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Mar. 2022
  • Track your way through the world with a sense of reverential glory.
    — Bess Matassa, Teen Vogue, 25 July 2017
  • Not all hold such a reverential view of the goliath grouper, which can reach 800 pounds.
    — Laura Parker, National Geographic, 25 Nov. 2016
  • Not all hold such a reverential view of the goliath grouper, which can reach 800 pounds.
    — National Geographic, 25 Nov. 2016
  • There isn’t a driver in the series who doesn’t have a reverential word to share about Dixon.
    — Jim Ayello, Indianapolis Star, 2 June 2018
  • Some danced for hours straight; others stood still, hands clasped to chests, reverential, tears streaming down their faces.
    — Jenna Wortham, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Service borders on reverential; ask to sit against the wall.
    — Kara Baskin, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Suzanne kept the door barely open, hoping to signal that this was a quieter, more reverential space than the living room.
    — Maggie Jones, New York Times, 19 Dec. 2019
  • The whole process felt pragmatic yet reverential to me.
    — Mallory McDuff, Wired, 2 Jan. 2022
  • The beach-party atmosphere of the Dutch seaside gave way to something graver and more reverential.
    — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2022
  • Drake on Thursday spoke in near-reverential terms about his new teammate, who broke into the league when Drake was just a grade-schooler.
    — Adam H. Beasley, miamiherald, 29 May 2018
  • The Daniels explained the film's music and sound must be both reverential to various artists and genres, as the movie is to various film types, and unique.
    — Rory Appleton, The Indianapolis Star, 13 Apr. 2022
  • There is no electricity for most and no running water, yet the lucky few who have access to them speak of the lake in reverential terms.
    — Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2021
  • Brussels sprouts with fish sauce and miso — brought so many of L.A.’s flavors under one roof in a way that felt reverential and connective.
    — Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 26 Feb. 2022
  • The gospel aesthetic contributed greatly to the reverential air the Opry would give, and still gives, to country music.
    — Fox News, 2 Sep. 2022
  • Cavendish would become a lifelong advocate for the disabled, and the film’s tone is at times overly reverential.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 20 Oct. 2017
  • Yet the collection was also reverential to the house founder whose unique brand of frivolity charmed audiences around the world.
    — Thomas Adamson, ajc, 23 Jan. 2023
  • Folk, at least for some, became a backward glance to a distant past, nostalgic and reverential.
    — Adam Bradley Justin French, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2023
  • Over its five-season run, Breaking Bad would go on to win 16 Emmy’s and inspire a fandom that was equal parts reverential and rabid.
    — Paolo Confino, Fortune, 26 Dec. 2023
  • And folks all over this huge collection of miles expect a reverential obsession from those who choose to take up this address, if only for a while.
    — Robert Dean, ajc, 2 Sep. 2017
  • Though Nelson nearly always tips a reverential hat to the performing arts in his plays, the sense of art as both a mirror to and ordering force in life is paramount here.
    — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 28 Oct. 2019
  • For a moment, the young female looked back at its audience of roughly 45 people who stared on in reverential silence.
    — Jesse Bedayn, Fortune, 20 Dec. 2023
  • Alice seemed to share a studious, reverential view of the world and had a deep appreciation for the sacrifices endured by Marines.
    — Jim Proser, National Review, 15 Aug. 2017
  • And we Minnesotans are supposed to be reverential when mentioning his name.
    — Mark Craig, Star Tribune, 19 Nov. 2020
  • Here’s a doc with a spring in its step, intimate without being off-puttingly reverential.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 27 Sep. 2017
  • Yet from the beginning of the trend toward reverential listening, there have been skeptics.
    — Jeremy Eichler, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Sep. 2022
  • Plus, there’s an almost reverential silence that the dunes inspire—a quietude that few national parks have.
    — Dakota Kim, Sunset Magazine, 11 Feb. 2020
  • In 1895, state legislators praised the Sacred Cod in near-reverential terms.
    — Brian MacQuarrie, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Jan. 2023
  • At every distance, these works are rich, robust and reverential.
    — Leah Ollman, latimes.com, 30 June 2017
  • His Sibelius is reverential, his Stravinsky without bite.
    — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2024

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