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

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

“He is God-fearing, extremely passionate about soccer, and a mentor to his little brothers. He was just a friend that his friends could rely on.”

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 29, 2025

"These were God-fearing people, chapel was everything to them."

From BBC • Sep. 4, 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