How to Use pious in a Sentence

pious

adjective

• They lived a quiet, pious life.
• I'm tired of hearing politicians making pious pronouncements about their devotion to the people.
• The Sabbath, as the more pious call it, is intended to be a day of rest.
  — Rachel Levin, SFChronicle.com, 11 June 2020
• But in the years since, China has slowly relaxed its ban on the pious.
  — James Chau, Newsweek, 2 May 2017
• The funniest thing about the Mets is the players’ pious self-image.
  — New York Times, 30 Aug. 2021
• The window is narrowing and the time for pious concern is over.
  — CNN, 23 Jan. 2020
• There is an old joke about a pious man stranded on a desert island.
  — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 8 July 2023
• The pious ending is the purest kitsch, but the rest is as delightful as was, no doubt, that bottle of Château Peyraguey.
  — John Banville, WSJ, 2 Oct. 2020
• But on the heels of his pious disgust would come his essential Tom O’Brien-ness.
  — Maryoconn, Longreads, 18 Sep. 2017
• All women in Gilead are required to be pious and subservient to men.
  — Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2022
• The monks also worry that touts and mass tourism will turn their biggest, most pious donors away.
  — The Economist, 26 Apr. 2018
• That adds to Imamoglu’s appeal even among pious young men who would normally back the AKP.
  — Laura King, latimes.com, 22 June 2019
• Some have pointed out that sumo has not always been so pious.
  — The Economist, 14 Apr. 2018
• Staples sings from her depths, with low moans and ragged, seductive growls that cut through even the most pious lyric.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 27 June 2022
• Being seen as such—and pious and dutiful to boot—was what gave them the license to speak in public and to write.
  — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024
• Like the crew of Apollo 8, Fessenden’s broadcast was of a pious nature.
  — Tony Long, WIRED, 24 Dec. 2008
• This was intensely painful for Faigy, who was deeply pious.
  — Larissa MacFarquhar, The New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2020
• Perhaps the most galling part of Barr’s speech, under current circumstances, is its hymn to the pious life.
  — Jeffrey Toobin, The New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2019
• Like pious Carmela in her haute bourgeois drag, art museums are married to the mob.
  — Rhonda Lieberman, The New Republic, 23 Sep. 2019
• Only when the tiny figure of the Catholic schoolgirl passes out of frame does the camera pan up and show us a pious stone face, hands clasped in prayer.
  — Annie Sisk, baltimoresun.com, 22 May 2017
• Never mind that the pious hosts were to toast a rough-and-tumble team known for its dirty tricks and abrasive behavior.
  — Mike Klingaman, baltimoresun.com, 30 June 2021
• It is haunted by ghosts, even if its more pious residents wouldn’t put it that way.
  — Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, 12 July 2018
• Other businesses that would have made the pious padres roll in their graves soon followed.
  — Gary Kamiya, SFChronicle.com, 27 Nov. 2020
• Dovid feels the same pressure to be devout, to serve as a pious example to the community.
  — Gary Thompson, Philly.com, 10 May 2018
• By 2014, pious Hindus had defected in large numbers to the BJP.
  — Dan Slater, Foreign Affairs, 3 July 2019
• Both are the object of pious, if not exactly lustful, love.
  — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 15 Sep. 2017
• This was not regarded as a failure by the yeshivas: from their point of view, no more was necessary to live a pious life.
  — Larissa MacFarquhar, The New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2020
• And, initially, the pious newcomers didn't even invite the Wampanoags to the revelry.
  — Brandon Tensley, CNN, 25 Nov. 2021
• Nice guys, or, anyway, pious guys, finish last and should be proud of their position.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2023
• The second scene occurs some months later, after Shin-ae has become a pious Christian.
  — Indiewire Staff, IndieWire, 13 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 2 Dec 2024