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

Her father was a politician, lawyer and judge, and from him she learned reverence for the law.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

But the Young 40 memes also represent Korean youth's growing scepticism of this almost forced reverence for elders.

From BBC • Jan. 17, 2026

Missing in all this is any reverence for or even superstitious fear of the dead.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 14, 2026

People tend to speak of them with reverence, and students may even be required to memorize and recite key passages.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz