REVERED in a Sentence

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91 example sentences for REVERED, such as:

1. The noble soul has reverence for itself.
2. He removed his hat as a sign of reverence.
3. He is still held in great reverence throughout the country.
4. Nelson Mandela is revered for his brave fight against apartheid.
5. I had a theoretical reverence and homage for beauty, elegance, gallantry, fascination.

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 Meanings and Examples of REVERED
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
revered
 a.  greatly respected; profoundly honored
Classic Sentence: (80 in 6 pages)
1  Rebecca, thus endowed with knowledge as with beauty, was universally revered and admired by her own tribe, who almost regarded her as one of those gifted women mentioned in the sacred history.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
2  Also, on the other hand, that it will never cause him to be applauded as a prophet, revered as a priest, or exalted as a king.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 2 The New Course Causes Disappointment
3  At the present instant one of the most revered names in England is being besmirched by a blackmailer, and only I can stop a disastrous scandal.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5. Three Broken Threads
4  For it was set apart and sanctified to one awe-striking end; and however wanton in their sailor ways, one and all, the mariners revered it as the white whale's talisman.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 99. The Doubloon.
5  He revered and respected her above all living beings; but he would have said it all the same to the virgin Mary herself, if she had come in the way of his system.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
6  He will see, in short, the world triumphing, the sovereign honoured and revered, the people animated with love, and rejoicing in their security.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X.
7  Such things when they are well founded and dignified will make him revered and admired, and in Italy there are not wanting opportunities to bring such into use in every form.
The Prince By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI — AN EXHORTATION TO LIBERATE ITALY FROM THE ...
8  Bazarov went on laughing; but much as he revered his master, this time Arkady did not even smile.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
9  That great man who was so revered by d'Artagnan the elder served as an object of ridicule to the Musketeers of Treville, who cracked their jokes upon his bandy legs and his crooked back.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 2 THE ANTECHAMBER OF M. DE TREVILLE
10  There is a high grove by the cold river of Caere, widely revered in ancestral awe; sheltering hills shut it in all about and girdle the woodland with their dark firs.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK EIGHTH
11  Accept, dear Madam, this token of my reverence for your courage and do not think that your sacrifice has been in vain, for this ring has been redeemed at ten times its value.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
12  In a manner of more than sacerdotal reverence he unlaced her boots, tucked her skirt about her ankles, slid on the slippers.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
13  The tight-fisted little farceur had a confused reverence for anything that seemed to him refined or clever.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
14  To neither love nor reverence wilt thou be kind; and e'en for hate thou canst but kill; and all are killed.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 119. The Candles.
15  They spoke together, and the sounds of their voices were low and solemn, as if influenced by a reverence that was deeply blended with awe.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 13
Example Sentence:
1  Nelson Mandela is revered for his brave fight against apartheid.
2  A number of institutions revered and respected in earlier times have become Aunt Sally for the present generation.
3  The intervention by Thailand's revered monarch two weeks ago is more likely to have influenced their verdict.
4  The noble soul has reverence for itself.
5  He removed his hat as a sign of reverence.
6  He is still held in great reverence throughout the country.
7  The king is limited to a symbolic figurehead, however the institution elicits huge amount of respect and reverence from the Thai people.
8  I had a theoretical reverence and homage for beauty, elegance, gallantry, fascination.
9  They speak reverently about this connection in private, but rarely talk about it to the press.
10  Though I bow my head in church and recite the prayers, sometimes I don't feel properly reverent.
11  In the Orient, however, it had long been the custom to revere a monarch as if he were a divinity.