How to Use godly in a Sentence

godly

adjective

• She lived a godly life.
• His godly pride seems to be the most injured part of him.
  — Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2022
• Next to the scripture are two godly hands cradling a truck.
  — Andrew Kay, WIRED, 17 Jan. 2023
• Such zeal can lead us to act in ways than are less than godly.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Sep. 2021
• Donovan Mitchell is the point of the spear on this, and in the last two playoffs, his 3-point shooting was godly.
  — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 29 Apr. 2022
• Her plan to raise her son right hinged on striving to be a godly parent, not her son's friend.
  — Andrew Oglesby, CNN, 31 Dec. 2021
• But swinging around the Stars and Stripes is not a godly nor a Latter-day Saint mission.
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 July 2023
• He was born human, but with godly strength, and his father was Zeus, ruler of all gods and humans.
  — CBS News, 6 Oct. 2022
• My own take on these kinds of things is usually shaped by the input of many godly men and women.
  — al, 28 June 2021
• For some reason, coffee is a sin there, but bubbly dairy syrup is a godly bevvy.
  — Vulture, 1 Dec. 2022
• Closest To God: Leeza Forgiving the man who shot you and left you paralysed might be the most godly thing anyone’s done on this show so far.
  — Shannon Carlin, refinery29.com, 26 Sep. 2021
• This is fatherhood, the devil god and the golden calf — the godly man, a jealous human being.
  — Dwight Garner, New York Times, 7 Nov. 2022
• The ancient Sumerians believed the palm was the first tree ever created, and that it was tended by a godly raven.
  — Matti Friedman, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Dec. 2022
• The President was a godly figure in everything Roland had read.
  — Ian McEwan, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2022
• There are levels within the Celestial, but the best of the best is a condition known as exaltation, where and when all the good, godly stuff can happen.
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 17 July 2022
• Battling cancer in her human form and Gorr in her godly form, Jane Foster was embroiled in an epic struggle with plenty of love and thunder!
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 21 Apr. 2022
• In the Catholic Church, saints are thought to live near God in heaven, to intercede with God on behalf of believers, and to be exemplars of godly behavior.
  — Jonathan M. Pitts, Baltimore Sun, 22 June 2023
• This is self-worship; this, according to my grandmother, is godly work.
  — Gloria Malone, refinery29.com, 29 Mar. 2022
• To use religious parlance, these other loves proved to be stumbling blocks — obstacles on the path to a godly life, if not to salvation itself.
  — Sarah Jones, Vulture, 18 Sep. 2021
• But their lives also were bound by the whims and wishes of clerics and parishioners who saw no contradiction between the pursuit of a godly life and enslaving a human being.
  — Brian MacQuarrie, BostonGlobe.com, 18 June 2023
• To say anything more would have discredited my experience as a godly one.
  — Samuel Ernest, Longreads, 2 May 2023
• Kratos and son flee, beginning a journey that leads to personal revelations, inner growth, and obviously, a litany of godly corpses in their wake.
  — Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 3 Nov. 2022
• Krasnostein noted the irony of this troupe of godly people serenading the sinners of Sodom and Gomorrah, but found their voices enchanting.
  — Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2022
• For the burgeoning religious right, Planned Parenthood became a potent symbol of the multitude of sins unleashed by the enemies of a godly nation.
  — Sarah Posner, Rolling Stone, 25 Mar. 2021
• Lauren says her growth as an artist has been a cathartic process on a personal level, revealing to her the importance of showing Southern Black women as godly, regal and invaluable.
  — Cheyenne M. Davis, Chron, 7 Oct. 2021
• Finally, Dowd's character is confronting real doubts about Gilead’s godly image, a shift that could leave her devastated.
  — Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 28 Oct. 2022
• Such documents reveal widely varying strategies for staying focussed on a godly life.
  — Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2023
• Even someone with zero interest in video games can appreciate a Titan punching Poseidon’s godly form, flinging Kratos into and through its watery body to drag the god out and into a more equal playing field.
  — Gene Park, Washington Post, 4 Nov. 2022
• Other singers — tremendous, foundational, godly singers — could belt.
  — Wesley Morris, New York Times, 25 May 2023
• Are laws meant to glorify a subjective concept of godly morality, or to govern actual human people?
  — Monica Hesse, Washington Post, 19 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024