reverently

Example Sentences

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They talked their talk right into existence, respectfully, reverently.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2026

Muivah studied briefly in Beijing's College of Diplomacy, visited Vietnam and came back speaking reverently of Mao and Zhou Enlai - though he would later fuse their ideology with a deeply Christian nationalism.

From BBC • Oct. 27, 2025

Anything that takes the Olympics less than reverently would be welcome.

From New York Times • Jun. 6, 2024

Combs, one of country music's biggest stars, reverently explained that he did not wish to revise Chapman’s flawless art.

From Salon • Feb. 7, 2024

He put me off his knee, rose, and reverently lifting his hat from his brow, and bending his sightless eyes to the earth, he stood in mute devotion.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë