How to Use godly in a Sentence

godly

adjective
  • She lived a godly life.
  • Such zeal can lead us to act in ways than are less than godly.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Sep. 2021
  • Her plan to raise her son right hinged on striving to be a godly parent, not her son's friend.
    — Andrew Oglesby, CNN, 31 Dec. 2021
  • For some reason, coffee is a sin there, but bubbly dairy syrup is a godly bevvy.
    — Vulture, 1 Dec. 2022
  • My own take on these kinds of things is usually shaped by the input of many godly men and women.
    — al, 28 June 2021
  • Dozens of boys say they were abused in a Christian scouting program that vowed to raise godly men.
    — Mike Hixenbaugh, NBC news, 7 May 2026
  • He was born human, but with godly strength, and his father was Zeus, ruler of all gods and humans.
    — CBS News, 6 Oct. 2022
  • But this new condominium features more than a godly cityscape.
    — Michael Gross, Air Mail, 4 Apr. 2026
  • Many first-person novels read like pleas made to an imagined court, one of public or godly opinion.
    — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024
  • Money, fame, power and godly wisdom, for which he was known everywhere.
    — Chris Roemer, Baltimore Sun, 1 Jan. 2026
  • Money, fame, power and godly wisdom, for which he was known everywhere.
    — Chris Roemer, Baltimore Sun, 30 Jan. 2025
  • Donovan Mitchell is the point of the spear on this, and in the last two playoffs, his 3-point shooting was godly.
    — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 29 Apr. 2022
  • This is self-worship; this, according to my grandmother, is godly work.
    — Gloria Malone, refinery29.com, 29 Mar. 2022
  • But some of these godly men harbor secrets and ambitions that lead to backstabbing and scandal.
    — Eric Andersson, Peoplemag, 8 Sep. 2024
  • This is fatherhood, the devil god and the golden calf — the godly man, a jealous human being.
    — Dwight Garner, New York Times, 7 Nov. 2022
  • To say anything more would have discredited my experience as a godly one.
    — Samuel Ernest, Longreads, 2 May 2023
  • Don’t worry folks, even Dwayne Johnson needs a little help getting into godly shape.
    — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 28 Nov. 2024
  • But swinging around the Stars and Stripes is not a godly nor a Latter-day Saint mission.
    — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 July 2023
  • The President was a godly figure in everything Roland had read.
    — Ian McEwan, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2022
  • All demigods are said to have ADHD and dyslexia as a product of their godly parentage.
    — Cameron Pugh, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Jan. 2024
  • The ancient Sumerians believed the palm was the first tree ever created, and that it was tended by a godly raven.
    — Matti Friedman, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Dec. 2022
  • Normally, people who get to wear that godly robe need more proof that someone isn’t capable enough before agreeing to that kind of action.
    — Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Other singers — tremendous, foundational, godly singers — could belt.
    — Wesley Morris, New York Times, 25 May 2023
  • Such documents reveal widely varying strategies for staying focussed on a godly life.
    — Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2023
  • To use religious parlance, these other loves proved to be stumbling blocks — obstacles on the path to a godly life, if not to salvation itself.
    — Sarah Jones, Vulture, 18 Sep. 2021
  • From the beginning, people saw optimization as a godly power.
    — Sigal Samuel, Vox, 6 Jan. 2025
  • From the beginning, people saw optimization as a godly power.
    — Sigal Samuel, Vox, 6 Jan. 2025
  • The tour included real history and mythology, then also quests, cabins based on godly parents and skits.
    — Dana Taylor, USA Today, 22 June 2026
  • There are levels within the Celestial, but the best of the best is a condition known as exaltation, where and when all the good, godly stuff can happen.
    — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 17 July 2022
  • But most of her remarks were pretty much in line with GOP orthodoxy on the border and lots of godly invocations.
    — Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 16 July 2024

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