reverence

Example Sentences

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Joseph navigated those years in the wake with unadorned reverence, while starting a family of his own and directing some of the most transcendent music videos of the 2010s.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 4, 2026

Contemporaries were convinced that his motivation for publishing Mansfield’s ephemera wasn’t so much reverence for her talent as greed for hard cash.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026

The Box describes Cook as a "cultural chronicler" who painted marginalised people and recorded their lives with joy, kindness and reverence.

From BBC • Jan. 23, 2026

Yet Sparta, as a warrior culture, valued the young soldier to the point of reverence.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026

I could see my father’s mouth pronouncing it with reverence, like he did for everything that had a touch of the old about it, the words from our language; like a prayer.

From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline