We found 20 examples of how to use pious in an English sentence.
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| 1. | So characteristic of what a pious Christian would say, this courteous phrase. | |
| 2. | Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man. | |
| 3. | A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. | |
| 4. | My wife is chaste and pious. | |
| 5. | Tom had a pious reputation. | |
| 6. | Tom is very pious. | |
| 7. | That I may stay a pious servant of Thine for aye and drive the plagues that try us and tyranny away. | |
| 8. | Sami and Layla's pious marriage was hiding a multitude of sins. | |
| 9. | Then, audience granted, as the fane they filled, / thus calmly spake the eldest of the train, / Ilioneus: "O queen, whom Jove hath willed / to found this new-born city, here to reign, / and stubborn tribes with justice to refrain, / we, Troy's poor fugitives, implore thy grace, / storm-tost and wandering over every main: / forbid the flames our vessels to deface, / mark our afflicted plight, and spare a pious race." | |
| 10. | And lifting on the shore / his hands, Anchises doth the gods adore. / "O Heaven!" he cries, "avert these threats; be kind / and stay the curse, and vex with plagues no more / a pious folk." | |
| 11. | "This pious use keep sacred, thou and thine, / the sons of sons unborn, and all the Trojan line." | |
| 12. | Veiled at her shrines in Phrygian hood we stand, / and chief to Juno, mindful of the seer, / burnt-offerings pay, as pious rites demand. | |
| 13. | Gradlon was a saintly and pious man. | |
| 14. | Gradlon was a saintly and pious man, and acted as patron to Gwénnolé, founder and first abbé of the first monastery built in Armorica. | |
| 15. | Gradlon, as is so often the case with pious men, had a wayward child, the princess Dahut. | |
| 16. | Gradlon, as is so often the case with pious men, had a wayward child, the princess Dahut, who on one occasion while her father was sleeping gave a secret banquet to her lover, in which the pair, excited with wine, committed folly after folly, until at last it occurred to the frivolous girl to open the sluice-gate. | |
| 17. | Beware of Rome if you want to remain pious. | |
| 18. | The imam looked sweet, calm, and pious. | |
| 19. | All the time she suffered no pain, and also she suffered none in giving birth to her son, for pious women are not included in the curse pronounced upon Eve, decreeing sorrow in conception and in childbearing. | |
| 20. | Reason directs those who are truly pious and philosophical to honour and love only what is true, declining to follow traditional opinions, if these be worthless. |