How to Use reverential in a Sentence

reverential

adjective
  • Track your way through the world with a sense of reverential glory.
    — Bess Matassa, Teen Vogue, 25 July 2017
  • Some danced for hours straight; others stood still, hands clasped to chests, reverential, tears streaming down their faces.
    — Jenna Wortham, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Not all hold such a reverential view of the goliath grouper, which can reach 800 pounds.
    — National Geographic, 25 Nov. 2016
  • There isn’t a driver in the series who doesn’t have a reverential word to share about Dixon.
    — Jim Ayello, Indianapolis Star, 2 June 2018
  • The great and the good of the Brazilian game, meanwhile, still talk about him in reverential tones.
    — Jack Lang, New York Times, 14 Dec. 2025
  • The choice was pragmatic as much as reverential.
    — Andy Hazel, IndieWire, 16 Jan. 2026
  • Alana Uriell speaks of the Aviara Golf Club in near reverential tones.
    — Bill Center, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Mar. 2022
  • At every distance, these works are rich, robust and reverential.
    — Leah Ollman, latimes.com, 30 June 2017
  • Suzanne kept the door barely open, hoping to signal that this was a quieter, more reverential space than the living room.
    — Maggie Jones, New York Times, 19 Dec. 2019
  • Folk, at least for some, became a backward glance to a distant past, nostalgic and reverential.
    — Adam Bradley Justin French, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2023
  • Here’s a doc with a spring in its step, intimate without being off-puttingly reverential.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 27 Sep. 2017
  • There is no electricity for most and no running water, yet the lucky few who have access to them speak of the lake in reverential terms.
    — Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2021
  • Some of the press has called me negatively reverential to Maria Callas.
    — Beatrice Verhoeven, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Nov. 2024
  • Cavendish would become a lifelong advocate for the disabled, and the film’s tone is at times overly reverential.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 20 Oct. 2017
  • And we Minnesotans are supposed to be reverential when mentioning his name.
    — Mark Craig, Star Tribune, 19 Nov. 2020
  • His movies felt both reverential and separate, singular, enjoyed apart from the books.
    — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 2 Sep. 2022
  • Plus, there’s an almost reverential silence that the dunes inspire—a quietude that few national parks have.
    — Dakota Kim, Sunset Magazine, 11 Feb. 2020
  • The beach-party atmosphere of the Dutch seaside gave way to something graver and more reverential.
    — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2022
  • The track gets bolstered by reverential piano and the trio’s ethereal harmonies.
    — Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 9 Dec. 2024
  • Bad news comes in the form of this Brighton away shirt, which seems to be a reverential tribute to their away shirt from… 2014.
    — Nick Miller, The Athletic, 16 Aug. 2024
  • And folks all over this huge collection of miles expect a reverential obsession from those who choose to take up this address, if only for a while.
    — Robert Dean, ajc, 2 Sep. 2017
  • Yet the collection was also reverential to the house founder whose unique brand of frivolity charmed audiences around the world.
    — Thomas Adamson, ajc, 23 Jan. 2023
  • Cars fill our road as grandfathers, fathers, and sons make their way to the area, and a reverential quiet begins to fill the afternoon air.
    — Laura Hawkins, Vogue, 8 Aug. 2024
  • Yet from the beginning of the trend toward reverential listening, there have been skeptics.
    — Jeremy Eichler, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Sep. 2022
  • And though he’s widely admired, Olise should probably be spoken about in more reverential terms.
    — The Athletic Uk Staff, New York Times, 17 Mar. 2026
  • Everything feels indispensably in the right place and is lit with a glowing, almost reverential light.
    — Dallas News, 23 June 2022
  • The camera, ever reverential, doesn’t follow Mollie out of the room and Ernest’s life.
    — Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Drake on Thursday spoke in near-reverential terms about his new teammate, who broke into the league when Drake was just a grade-schooler.
    — Adam H. Beasley, miamiherald, 29 May 2018
  • Among them were artists, intellectuals, and social theorists for whom the words free and new had achieved a reverential status.
    — Vivian Gornick, The New York Review of Books, 3 Aug. 2022
  • For a moment, the young female looked back at its audience of roughly 45 people who stared on in reverential silence.
    — Jesse Bedayn, Fortune, 20 Dec. 2023

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