pious

Example Sentences

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If that sounds pious for a politician, Mr. Sasse doesn’t mean it to be.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026

And two Americans: Kenyon, a wry, observant, skeptical humanist sculptor, perhaps a stand-in for Hawthorne himself; and Hilda, a New England Puritan painter—self-possessed, pious, unswervingly loyal, pure as a flight of doves.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

Erdogan, a devout Muslim and graduate of a clerical school, has previously said he aims to raise a "pious generation".

From Barron's • Feb. 25, 2026

In Mumbai, the Jain community, which considers feeding pigeons a pious duty, has been vocal in their protests.

From BBC • Aug. 17, 2025

She stresses the verb confessing as if their father were actually being pious in looking ahead for his daughters.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez