God-fearing

Example Sentences

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Like many of Walterboro’s roughly 5,400 inhabitants, she described Hill as a quintessential Southern belle—churchgoing, God-fearing and ready with a smile or an offer of sweet tea.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 24, 2026

The story follows Dawn O’Keefe, a God-fearing good girl — surrounded by shame-lobbing, not-so-good men — whose body has a sharp sense of justice.

From New York Times • Mar. 27, 2024

In some ways, Deion was no different, no less God-fearing or evangelical than Kirby Smart or Dabo Swinney.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 28, 2023

"You know me very well, I am a God-fearing man," he said.

From BBC • Apr. 11, 2023

These God-fearing Calvinists formed a wall of colonization for the new United States.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz