PIOUS in a Sentence

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43 example sentences for PIOUS, such as:

1. Marie always made a point to be very pious on Sundays.
2. Thus ended our little Sabbath school in the pious town of St. Michael's.
3. Chaucer's monk is not pious but salacious. a teller of lewd tales and ribald jests.
4. There he found David, pouring out his pious feelings through the only medium in which he ever indulged.
5. The challenge for church people today is how to be pious in the best sense, that is, to be devout without becoming hypocritical.

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 Meanings and Examples of PIOUS
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
pious
 a.  devout; religious; exhibiting strict, traditional sense of virtue and morality
Classic Sentence: (41 in 3 pages)
1  However, I admired him and tried to copy him far more than I ever did my father, for Father is an amiable gentleman full of honorable habits and pious saws--so you see how it goes.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
2  I goes in, pious as Widow Bogart, and sits still and never cracks a smile while the preacher is favoring us with his misinformation on evolution.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
3  Carol was interrupted only when Mrs. Clark begged, "Dear, don't speak so bitter about 'pious' people.'"
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
4  For a pious man, especially for a Quaker, he was certainly rather hard-hearted, to say the least.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 16. The Ship.
5  Gently he insinuates his vast bulk among them again and revels there awhile, still in tantalizing vicinity to young Lothario, like pious Solomon devoutly worshipping among his thousand concubines.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 88. Schools and Schoolmasters.
6  Cutter's first name was Wycliffe, and he liked to talk about his pious bringing-up.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XI
7  Encouraged by his opinion, Alice did what her pious inclinations, and her keen relish for gentle sounds, had before so strongly urged.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 6
8  There he found David, pouring out his pious feelings through the only medium in which he ever indulged.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 17
9  During the time David occupied in pouring out the pious feelings of his spirit in this manner, not a sign of surprise, nor a look of impatience, escaped them.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 33
10  When I went there, she was a pious, warm, and tender-hearted woman.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
11  Thus ended our little Sabbath school in the pious town of St. Michael's.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
12  No; I mean, really, Tom is a good, steady, sensible, pious fellow.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
13  Some folks don't believe there is pious niggers Shelby," said Haley, with a candid flourish of his hand, "but I do.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
14  "Well, therein you differ from many wise and pious men," said Mr. Shelby.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
15  Marie always made a point to be very pious on Sundays.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
Example Sentence:
1  The challenge for church people today is how to be pious in the best sense, that is, to be devout without becoming hypocritical.
2  Chaucer's monk is not pious but salacious. a teller of lewd tales and ribald jests.