How to Use religiosity in a Sentence

religiosity

noun
  • Yet maybe the act of balancing the two is the act of religiosity?
    — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 23 Mar. 2023
  • New data from Gallup show a surge of religiosity among young men.
    — Michael Luo, New Yorker, 14 June 2026
  • The title is not pulled from some fearful religiosity, rather, hell as a state of being.
    — Maria Sherman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Feb. 2024
  • But Democrats’ waning religiosity may be a factor in the longer-term trend.
    — Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 17 Mar. 2023
  • But, when such crises end, religiosity declines, and people seek out risky behavior.
    — Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2021
  • In any case, the film is infused with religiosity, and the filmmakers believe a higher power was in charge of their project.
    — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 1 Feb. 2022
  • But a wider look at trends in religiosity reveals a more complex reality.
    — Shadi Hamid, Foreign Affairs, 18 June 2024
  • On a global scale, religiosity has remained rather stable.
    — Rachel Wolf, FOXNews.com, 13 Nov. 2025
  • But the angry old boys’ club isn’t the only opposing force in this tale where pious religiosity meets the scourge of modernity.
    — Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2021
  • Many of the paintings hint at religiosity and manifest destiny.
    — Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 6 Sep. 2022
  • This love of gospel music, along with a deep religiosity, was implanted in Carter’s heart at a young age and stayed with him throughout his lifetime.
    — Noah Eckstein, Variety, 29 Dec. 2024
  • This holds true across dozens of countries and on nearly every measure of religiosity, from how often someone prays to how important faith is in their lives.
    — Ryan Burge, The Conversation, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Mondrian boiled down his religiosity to a belief in the intrinsic potency of the craft of painting, in and of itself.
    — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2022
  • Such religiosity can come across as pious and performative when delivered from the pulpit.
    — Jason Motlagh, Rolling Stone, 16 Apr. 2023
  • Now compare the above to the breakdown of Asian American religiosity.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2012
  • Yet amid these signs of a rapidly secularizing society, the country is awash in religiosity.
    — Linda Greenhouse, The New York Review of Books, 1 July 2021
  • The Rules of Engagement alum revealed his mother’s religiosity led her to resent his career, too.
    — Liza Esquibias, People.com, 4 Nov. 2024
  • The Tatmadaw, as the military is known, has always used lavish displays of religiosity to legitimize its rule.
    — The New York Times, Arkansas Online, 29 Aug. 2021
  • While Warhol’s religiosity may have grown inconsistent over his lifetime, his closeness with his mother endured.
    — NBC News, 7 Dec. 2021
  • Trump’s participation in the Bible reading comes on the heels of scrutiny over his religiosity.
    — Zach Lachance, The Washington Examiner, 18 Apr. 2026
  • Yet the DeSantis campaign and its allies see fighting the left as the fastest way to appeal to those voters rather than overt displays of religiosity.
    — Shane Goldmacher, New York Times, 7 June 2023
  • The exhibition makes plain how much the culture benefited from these artists whose creativity flowed from, through and around their struggles with religiosity.
    — Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2022
  • The United States has experienced one of the largest declines in religiosity globally over the past decade, new research shows.
    — Jordan King, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Nov. 2025
  • Belief in God has been one of the strongest, most reliable markers of the persistence of American religiosity through the years.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 21 June 2022
  • All of these victims got blamed for what was perceived as a decline in religiosity in Puritan New England society.
    — Time, 8 Oct. 2022
  • Explain to the woman that not everyone in the group is comfortable displaying their religiosity in public, and some may prefer to do their worshiping privately.
    — Jeanne Phillips, Dallas Morning News, 5 Jan. 2026
  • According to some experts, the central role religious groups played in securing civil rights is part of why Black nones retain elements of religiosity.
    — Kathryn Post, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Feb. 2024
  • The religiosity of Emilia Pérez is evident in its absolute adherence to trans issues.
    — Armond White, National Review, 29 Jan. 2025
  • There's a common belief that space science (or science in general) and religiosity are mutually exclusive.
    — Jessica Rendall, Space.com, 6 Oct. 2025
  • But the works are also infused with the atmosphere of tenderness and religiosity in the Renaissance Italians and in Poussin.
    — Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2021

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