How to Use godless in a Sentence

godless

adjective
  • Far too pure for the sinners who run this godless theocracy.
    — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Who can say what power would do to these proponents of a Godless world-view?
    — Wired Letters Department, WIRED, 1 Dec. 2006
  • These are not social Democrats, these are hard-core, godless communists.
    — CBS News, 28 June 2026
  • These are not social democrats, these are hardcore godless communists.
    — CBS News, 28 June 2026
  • The Klan looked worried that their event was about to be commandeered by godless Nazis.
    — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 22 Feb. 2018
  • My apartment—formerly a godless zone for only the profane, not the sacred—now feels holy.
    — Jocelyn Silver, Vogue, 18 Sep. 2024
  • The landscape of sports has long been littered with godless God guys who soil the platform with false testimony.
    — Marcus Hayes, Philly.com, 2 Feb. 2018
  • But in his eyes, godless communism and the Soviet Union were just as baleful.
    — Reuel Marc Gerecht, Foreign Affairs, 7 Sep. 2023
  • For one must never allow those in the ruling class to become uncomfortable or be told that their own godless worldview is built on sand.
    — Andrew T. Walker, National Review, 31 Dec. 2023
  • Their woke and godless neighbors — who own televisions and don’t know how to discipline their kids — are a different story.
    — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 18 May 2026
  • Compared with the heavenly bliss promised at the end of Revelation, Byron’s godless planet was bleak stuff indeed.
    — Jennifer Szalai, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2025
  • The Ahmarists don’t want to share the public square with the godless and think the French types are naive for believing that pluralism will ever work for conservatives.
    — Ephrat Livni, Quartz, 17 June 2019
  • This timely memoir seeks to reconcile an evangelical upbringing in Texas with literary life in a godless New York.
    — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2017
  • Those two additional words were meant to signify America’s distinction from the Soviet Union, which was viewed as the godless menace of the time.
    — Julie Zauzmer, Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2018
  • Christian patriots, supposedly imperiled and opposed by a godless state, are encouraged to attend not merely to hear children’s books but to demonstrate their allegiance.
    — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Many Americans don’t fully appreciate just how godless European culture has become.
    — David French, National Review, 22 July 2019
  • Nevertheless, aspects of my temperament—grammar nerdery, terror over the arbitrariness of a godless world—place me in sympathy with the Poindexters.
    — S.c. Cornell, The New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2023
  • The pledge of allegiance originally omitted those two words until Congress, in an absurd response to godless communism, added them to the pledge in 1954.
    — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 3 May 2018
  • Despite the decade’s influx of godless movie people and their trailing entourage of wannabes and hangers-on, the city had remained a magnet for aging health-seekers, middle-class snowbirds, and retirees from the Midwest.
    — Gary Krist, Los Angeles Magazine, 7 May 2018
  • This is why calls to restore power to government institutions ring hollow, and why the Democratic Party’s faith in institutions can appear naive and godless.
    — Scott Warren, The Atlantic, 13 June 2026
  • But godless film culture ignores Bellocchio’s visionary ambition.
    — Armond White, National Review, 31 May 2024
  • His stories, particularly the later ones, center around the idea that the Universe is a godless cosmos that is entirely indifferent to humanity.
    — Big Think, 14 Oct. 2025
  • What better way to distinguish God-fearing Americans from the godless communists of the Soviet Union than to put God on the money?
    — David Williamson, The Orlando Sentinel, 14 June 2026
  • That will give him the ability to rail against the godless heathens and Commies who have taken over the courts and spurned this nation’s supposedly integral Christian character, which is of course what this is really all about.
    — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 23 June 2024
  • News-gathering institutions, acting in concert with environmental theologians, present nature as a fearful godless entity, when the opposite is true.
    — Joe Soucheray, Twin Cities, 16 June 2017
  • Predictably, the hubbub surrounding the photo was eventually framed as a war between uptight virgins and godless heathens, with a quieter contingent astounded only by the fact that this kind of marketing could still be so effective.
    — Amanda Petrusich, New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Out of this kinetic fusion came an art form that’s been called every name in the book—from vulgar and godless, by the Catholic Church, exploitative, by progressive intellectuals, to vibrant and authentic, by its fans.
    — Sofia Perez, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Mar. 2023
  • After The Chronic, black Americans who used to fight against the godless, ethical decline of ghetto living simply gave up, relenting to the power of pop-culture persuasion.
    — Armond White, National Review, 15 Nov. 2023
  • These advisors to the presumably godless Donkey Party took a lot of credit for the Democratic victory in 2008, and began, well, cashing in.
    — Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 26 Jan. 2018
  • Secular school administrators punishing a small-town high school football coach for quietly praying after a game is potent imagery, evoking a wistful Americana that is now threatened by godless liberalism.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 8 Sep. 2023

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