Pious in a sentence

Variations and common pious additions seeAlso Common pious additions to the Rosary occur after each decade and after recitation of the Hail Holy Queen.

While secular courts often treated suspects ferociously, Will and Ariel Durant argued in The Age of Faith that many of the most vicious procedures were inflicted upon pious heretics by even more pious friars.

And no one could fault the shape-changing talent of Amber James as she shifts in turn from being pious mother to jobsworth official to sweet, hip-swinging sister.

A serious reader, he was not particularly pious.

Attending in the Sunday’s best with a pious attitude judging those that aren’t us…then we leave church and act a true fool.

Carol Kane and Steven Keats, as an incompatible married couple — he a self-styled Yankee, she a pious product of the shtetl — speak Yiddish, though they didn’t know the language when they were cast.

He also advised Nigerians to talk less and be conscious of Almighty Allah, as well as be pious and exhibit all the things that were stated in the holy Qur’an.

He said that the CM has kept a pious aim behind taking out the Vikas Yatra.

Red Cross Society being a very Pious Organizations needs to work in a much more organized manner to respond timely and adequately to win over the trust and confidence of the people of J&K.

He has since set his sights on winning back Istanbul — the city where he grew up playing street football and where he launched his political career as a self-proclaimed champion of Turkey’s pious Muslims and the poor.

He was attacked by Prince Lhamy and Pious Adabie who struck him with weapons.

Onyeso Nwachukwu who died in 2022 was a pious man, an Elder in the church, and the state chairman of the ruling National Party of Nigeria (NPN).

Speaking after the ceremony, Mr Tamba described his daughter as a ‘pious’ Muslim and insisted that her new life will not change her.

The first is about the extremely religious Thomas Bailey, the successful china and glass merchant, who set up the almshouse (then Trinity Asylum) in 1824 'for pious aged women'.

The leader was far from pious, however, and was arrested by cops who found out he had raped his friend's niece in June 1993, a month before the group's first killing.

The more pious they proclaim to be, the skeevier and abhorrent they are.

A pious man by the name of Shaykh Yāsīn bin-Yūsuf al-Marākashī once passed by the village, and observed him running away from children who were attempting to force him to play, all the while reciting Qurʾān.

Astronomers have made several attempts to calculate what this star may have been - whether it was a celestial event or pious fiction.

Beholding such a sorry sight of this 60-year-old sufferer, little could the pious man suspect of what really lay before him.

But perhaps more telling was Trump's salvo at Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah), from all accounts a pious man, who cited his "profoundly religious" beliefs in explaining why he voted to convict Trump for abuse of power.