God-fearing

Example Sentences

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To hear it from Reagan, Afghanistan was one of the most beautiful, freedom-loving and God-fearing places in the world.

From Salon • Dec. 13, 2025

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

It’s heartbreaking how he could only swing like a pendulum between being out and God-fearing.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 30, 2023

His parents, Sean and Happy Perry, described their son in a statement as “a loving, giving, caring, God-fearing young man who was full of life and potential, and who made his family proud.”

From Washington Post • Dec. 26, 2022

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