REVERENTLY in a Sentence

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91 example sentences for REVERENTLY, such as:

1. The noble soul has reverence for itself.
2. He removed his hat as a sign of reverence.
3. Tom always spoke reverently of the Quakers.
4. She laid the fragments reverently on the table.
5. He is still held in great reverence throughout the country.

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 Meanings and Examples of REVERENTLY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
reverently
 ad.  with reverence; in a reverent manner; in respectful regard
Classic Sentence: (80 in 6 pages)
1  She laid the fragments reverently on the table.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
2  Once the old doctor had been wont to thank God reverently for each child he brought into the world.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
3  Pork gazed at it reverently and slowly delight spread over his face.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
4  This was a more sober heartfelt joy, a deep-souled feeling of thanksgiving, and the churches were filled as ministers reverently thanked God for the deliverance of the state.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVIII
5  After a suitable and decent pause, the principal chiefs arose, and, approaching the patriarch, they placed his hands reverently on their heads, seeming to entreat a blessing.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 28
6  Tom always spoke reverently of the Quakers.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
7  Stooping over her, he pressed his lips reverently to her cold forehead, and then, snatching up her hand, he took the wedding-ring from her finger.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
8  Holmes turned the body over reverently, and examined it with great attention.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In V. THE ADVENTURE OF THE PRIORY SCHOOL
9  Then she raised her head proudly, and held out one hand to Van Helsing who took it in his, and, after stooping and kissing it reverently, held it fast.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
10  Taking from his box a piece of the Sacred Wafer he laid it reverently on the earth, and then shutting down the lid began to screw it home, we aiding him as he worked.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
11  Bending on one knee, he placed it reverently by the side of its mother, with its head upon her breast.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 111. Expiation.
12  He put me off his knee, rose, and reverently lifting his hat from his brow, and bending his sightless eyes to the earth, he stood in mute devotion.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
13  And when that happened he would reverently acknowledge the immensity of the mercy of Providence, gratefully tender thanksgiving for the same, and betake himself again to his irregular mode of existence.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
14  I peeped through the window half reverently, and found things that were more familiar.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In IV
15  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
Example Sentence:
1  They speak reverently about this connection in private, but rarely talk about it to the press.
2  The noble soul has reverence for itself.
3  He removed his hat as a sign of reverence.
4  He is still held in great reverence throughout the country.
5  The king is limited to a symbolic figurehead, however the institution elicits huge amount of respect and reverence from the Thai people.
6  I had a theoretical reverence and homage for beauty, elegance, gallantry, fascination.
7  Nelson Mandela is revered for his brave fight against apartheid.
8  A number of institutions revered and respected in earlier times have become Aunt Sally for the present generation.
9  The intervention by Thailand's revered monarch two weeks ago is more likely to have influenced their verdict.
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.