Sentence examples for very pious from inspiring English sources

I am not very pious.

The community was very pious, & strictly observant of religious custom.

A very pious Catholic, he especially favoured the Jesuits.

"Manila is a collage, from the very high to the very low, from the very pious to the incredibly depraved.

It goes like this: There is this very pious Jew named Goldberg who always dreamed of winning the lottery.

Mr. Sicilia said that growing up in Mexico City, the son of a poet who was very pious, he considered the priesthood but that literature pulled him harder.

She came from a very bourgeois, pious Catholic family, living in a seven-bedroom apartment in the plush 16th arrondissement of Paris, not far from the Eiffel Tower.

The acerbitas mortis ("bitterness of death") was very real, and pious deathbeds had to be fortified by the acceptance of pain as an offering to God.

Sporting a full beard, the young graduate student looked very much the pious Muslim that many say he was, Nayeri says.

Is Karpov a jihadist or just a pious and very wealthy refugee?

Some saw this as a sign of his innocence and it mobilised pious supporters very different from the thuggish core of Shibir.Seven more verdicts are due.