REVERENCE in a Sentence

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In a manner of more than sacerdotal reverence he unlaced her boots, tucked her skirt about her ankles, slid on the slippers.

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 Meanings and Examples of REVERENCE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
reverence
 n.  profound respect and esteem mingled with fear and affection, as for a holy being or place; disposition to revere; act of revering
Classic Sentence: (80 in 6 pages)
1  Accept, dear Madam, this token of my reverence for your courage and do not think that your sacrifice has been in vain, for this ring has been redeemed at ten times its value.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
2  In a manner of more than sacerdotal reverence he unlaced her boots, tucked her skirt about her ankles, slid on the slippers.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
3  The tight-fisted little farceur had a confused reverence for anything that seemed to him refined or clever.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
4  To neither love nor reverence wilt thou be kind; and e'en for hate thou canst but kill; and all are killed.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 119. The Candles.
5  They spoke together, and the sounds of their voices were low and solemn, as if influenced by a reverence that was deeply blended with awe.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 13
6  Nothing could surpass the reverence and affection with which this unexpected visit from one who belongs rather to another world than to this, was received by his people.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 28
7  "It was the Lenni Lenape," returned Magua, affecting to bend his head in reverence to their former greatness.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 29
8  The calm and deep silence which succeeded these words sufficiently announced the awful reverence with which his people received the communication of the patriarch.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 30
9  Our want of reverence for him must have perplexed him greatly.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
10  Tom regarded his gay, airy, handsome young master with an odd mixture of fealty, reverence, and fatherly solicitude.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
11  You know reverence is not my forte.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
12  The silver hair and benevolent countenance of the aged cottager won my reverence, while the gentle manners of the girl enticed my love.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
13  "There is no law, nor reverence for authority, no regard for human ordinances or opinions, right or wrong, mixed up with that child's composition," remarked he, as much to himself as to his companion.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In X. THE LEECH AND HIS PATIENT
14  Satan dropped it there, I take it, intending a scurrilous jest against your reverence.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XII. THE MINISTER'S VIGIL
15  "And, since Satan saw fit to steal it, your reverence must needs handle him without gloves henceforward," remarked the old sexton, grimly smiling.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XII. THE MINISTER'S VIGIL
Example Sentence:
1  The noble soul has reverence for itself.
2  He removed his hat as a sign of reverence.
3  He is still held in great reverence throughout the country.
4  The king is limited to a symbolic figurehead, however the institution elicits huge amount of respect and reverence from the Thai people.
5  I had a theoretical reverence and homage for beauty, elegance, gallantry, fascination.
6  Nelson Mandela is revered for his brave fight against apartheid.
7  A number of institutions revered and respected in earlier times have become Aunt Sally for the present generation.
8  The intervention by Thailand's revered monarch two weeks ago is more likely to have influenced their verdict.
9  They speak reverently about this connection in private, but rarely talk about it to the press.
10  Though I bow my head in church and recite the prayers, sometimes I don't feel properly reverent.
11  In the Orient, however, it had long been the custom to revere a monarch as if he were a divinity.