How to Use piety in a Sentence

piety

noun

• He was admired for his extreme piety.
• That one makes a great show of piety, said the nun in my ear.
  — Emma Donoghue, The Atlantic, 12 May 2020
• But the display of piety has done little to mask that the army chief has much to atone for.
  — New York Times, 2 Feb. 2021
• This doesn’t mean that the pieties are empty or useless.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2023
• Surely there’s an age cut-off point where this sort of piety doesn’t work?
  — Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review, 9 Oct. 2017
• There's little piety among those running the mines that are the main source of income.
  — Fernando Vergara, Star Tribune, 23 Apr. 2021
• The price of piety must be paid for protection — gotta love Catholic dogma.
  — Brooke Knisley, Vulture, 24 Mar. 2024
• Hollywood and the Republican right have clashed for years over the morals of the silver screen and the piety of the steeple.
  — Jeffrey Fleishman, chicagotribune.com, 24 June 2019
• Trump has great timing and an unerring sense of how to cut through the pre-fab pieties of diplomacy.
  — Christine M. Flowers, Philly.com, 21 Sep. 2017
• To find answers means more truth, less filial piety, and God knows how much more time.
  — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 30 May 2022
• The poor were thought to be the regime’s last bastion of power, tied to theocracy by piety and the welfare state.
  — Reuel Marc Gerecht and, WSJ, 11 June 2018
• Eilish’s pop-song tantrums and Keys’s false piety give music the power to keep us apart.
  — Armond White, National Review, 27 Jan. 2020
• Magnum Photos Khamenei projects a life of piety and service.
  — Karim Sadjadpour, Time, 3 Oct. 2019
• The president’s son did show passion about one thing: his piety.
  — William Saletan, Slate Magazine, 12 July 2017
• Trump’s piety, of course, is suspect, while Bush is a true believer.
  — Sarah Jones, The New Republic, 15 Mar. 2018
• Yet if the uplifting side of the addiction drama can be one of its pieties, in this case it feels earned.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 22 Mar. 2023
• And how a man who preached piety became the cause of unabashed revelry is anyone’s guess.
  — Los Angeles Daily News, The Mercury News, 17 Mar. 2017
• That’s a serious debit in a movie that is, at least sometimes, about a figure of renowned deep piety.
  — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 2 June 2023
• The Virgin of Kings, dressed in orchid pink, gazed down at this scene of historical piety.
  — Aatish Taseer Richard Mosse, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2022
• The college president, Robert E. Lee, offered pieties and looked the other way.
  — Jay Weiser, WSJ, 1 Oct. 2017
• Black clothing conveyed plainness and piety, for one thing.
  — Shelley Puhak, The Atlantic, 13 Oct. 2017
• Laws require all women to at least wear a headscarf, or hijab, to cover their hair as a sign of piety.
  — Jon Gambrell and Mike Corder, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Oct. 2023
• Things Lu couldn’t account for, all the sorrow and spite, the vitriol and piety, that suddenly had free rein.
  — The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2021
• The variety and richness of the images are astonishing, and attest to both the king’s piety and ego.
  — Joshua Hammer, Smithsonian, 21 Nov. 2019
• Many of the men have beards, a hallmark of Islamic piety, and many of the women wear ankle-long dresses and hijab.
  — Hamza Hendawi, Fox News, 13 June 2018
• The satire is largely aimed at the kind of pieties about inclusion that are espoused by woke white liberals.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2018
• Throughout the conference, Rohr dished out a series of barbs aimed at Christian piety.
  — Fred Bahnson, Harpers Magazine, 5 Jan. 2021
• Besides water control, they've been said to ward off evil and to frighten passers-by into piety.
  — CBS News, 27 Oct. 2019
• Paying one’s respects to the past, through memorialization of some kind, is an act of piety.
  — Washington Post, 4 Mar. 2022
• Adam and Eve’s cautionary tale of humanity’s fall from grace in the Garden of Eden could provide a patron the public veneer of biblical piety.
  — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Nov 2024