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
If there’s one thing centuries of God-fearing living have taught us, it’s that the Bible is open to interpretation.
From Salon ● May 19, 2026
The pastor there, Caroline Atieno, remembers a "wonderful... God-fearing person".
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2024
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
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
