How to Use filial in a Sentence

filial

adjective

• Like a dorsal fin poking over the waves, their filial conflicts suggest the story’s dark undertow.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 10 Aug. 2023
• This was hero worship on steroids, with a strong filial twist.
  — James Marcus, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2021
• To find answers means more truth, less filial piety, and God knows how much more time.
  — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 30 May 2022
• Chung felt the pangs of filial guilt and went to her trailer and apologized.
  — E. Alex Jung, Vulture, 1 Mar. 2021
• This is a hope that is fully in accord with the filial respect that faithful Catholics owe the Holy Father.
  — Daniel J. Mahoney, National Review, 6 Feb. 2020
• Westover is a keen and honest guide to the difficulties of filial love, and to the enchantment of embracing a life of the mind.
  — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2018
• That filial love is universal and the only way life persists.
  — National Geographic, 9 Oct. 2017
• Ah, the question that haunts the halls of greed, despair, self-worth, parental acceptance, filial devotion and how much is enough.
  — Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 June 2023
• The band split up in the late 2000s over the long-running filial conflict between Noel Gallagher — the band’s songwriter — and Liam Gallagher, its lead singer.
  — Jon Pareles, New York Times, 2 May 2020
• But the single dark eye that’s not in shadow glistens with filial affection.
  — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 17 June 2023
• This is highlighted even more by the way Mishima draws attention to the filial bond in the penultimate sentence.
  — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 7 Sep. 2020
• Only in this filial saga, the redemption never happens, the hero never shows up.
  — Jacob S. Hacker, Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2019
• Both versions of the movie greatly simplify filial piety.
  — Teresa Lo, USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2020
• There is also a strong dose of filial loyalty involved.
  — Chris Jennings, WSJ, 14 June 2018
• Their noses touch in bed at night, and what courses between them is platonic, romantic, filial all at once.
  — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 16 June 2019
• The sons of both men were later elected to Congress, adding filial codicils to what had been a fraternal contract.
  — Kevin Mahnken, The New Republic, 1 Sep. 2020
• Rarely has such a fevered outpouring of filial rage and a son’s hopeless love been channeled into one brief document.
  — Francine Prose, WSJ, 12 July 2018
• Besides filial duty, an election loss might have ruined the Ivanka brand.
  — Nina Burleigh, Newsweek, 1 Feb. 2017
• Once in the capital, James sinks deep into the filial and political dysfunction of the kingdom.
  — Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2022
• Paveena, founder and chairwoman of her own foundation, said that any young child asked by her parents to get married would agree out of filial devotion.
  — Eileen Ng, The Seattle Times, 2 July 2018
• In fact, the fearless modernist still lived with her mother, in a small apartment in Brooklyn, in a relation that had the appearance of deep filial devotion.
  — Adam Davidson, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2017
• For example, there’s the boilerplate assumption that Asian-centric movies must include martial arts and themes of filial piety — tropes that Shang-Chi seems to fill.
  — Washington Post, 3 Sep. 2021
• Janet Yeoh, 84, praised the actor as intelligent and hardworking and a filial daughter.
  — Syawalludin Zain, ajc, 14 Mar. 2023
• About half of the states have filial responsibility laws.
  — Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 15 July 2023
• That trustworthiness isn’t confined to the filial and social circles.
  — Jon Michail, Forbes, 24 June 2022
• And all good Confucian children must observe filial piety.
  — Chris Buckley, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2018
• In the Trump family at large, a father’s love was contingent on filial devotion, Mary L. Trump also said.
  — Monica Hesse, Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2020
• One or multiple of his minions and peers—filial or otherwise—confront him on the battlefield.
  — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 26 Mar. 2023
• As the relationship between man and youth deepens, crossing class lines and age barriers, Cem begins to feel a filial tug toward his boss.
  — Geraldine Brooks, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2017
• Other characters began to appear more regularly, too, like her grandmother, whom Li dotes on with saccharine filial piety, as well as a few other friends from the village.
  — Oscar Schwartz, The New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 23 Oct 2024