How to Use reverence in a Sentence
reverence
noun- Their religion has a deep reverence for nature.
- Her poems are treated with reverence by other poets.
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Brugge lifts up one of the jars and gazes at it with reverence.
—Martha Bebinger, NPR, 9 Dec. 2025
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That reverence isn’t lost on the brand.
—Eric Twardzik, Robb Report, 1 Mar. 2026
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His name lingers with an air of reverence in every room.
—Devin Robertson, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
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Dad talked about turning windrows of hay with the reverence of an artist.
—Hazlitt, 14 Dec. 2022
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The people who live and work here have a reverence for the past, for the land.
—Hanya Yanagihara, ELLE Decor, 12 July 2010
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Pour, serve and give reverence to the hands that brought this coffee to your cup.
—Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2023
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But to call you a drug dealer here, with that same reverence, is naive, out of touch.
—Nadia Bowers, Time, 19 May 2018
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This kind of reverence and credit can be lost on Maron.
—Mikey O'Connell, HollywoodReporter, 13 Aug. 2025
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It is now held in reverence with some of the old Southern tracks.
—Orange County Register, 26 Mar. 2017
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But there was so much reverence given to the sets and design.
—E. Alex Jung, Vulture, 20 Nov. 2021
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Onlookers stood by and watched in reverence on all sides of the crowd.
—Athena Ankrah, The Arizona Republic, 30 Sep. 2021
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When Marie talks about Lyle, there's a reverence in her tone.
—Salem Statesman Journal, OregonLive.com, 4 Apr. 2018
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There are some things in this life which simply must be treated with reverence.
—Sam Kean, Slate Magazine, 24 July 2017
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Her daughters and their friends had a real reverence for her skills.
—Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 2 Sep. 2025
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The account was born out of a passion and deep reverence for nail art from three friends.
—Kaitlyn McNab, Allure, 23 Feb. 2021
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Black actors have a reverence for this queen and always have.
—Danielle Young, Essence, 10 Oct. 2019
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Think of it, rather, as a show of reverence for the incumbents.
—Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 20 Dec. 2017
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Those big boars are almost always called hogs, and with some reverence to boot.
—Will Brantley, Field & Stream, 28 Sep. 2023
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Which means, there’s no reverence for classics.
—Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 31 Mar. 2026
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There’s a certain reverence among the group for the child stars that came before.
—Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 23 June 2023
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These days, there are precious few bands of the era treated with greater reverence.
—Joe Lynch, Billboard, 6 Nov. 2020
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Few bars have the same deference and reverence for kissas.
—Miguel Otárola, Denver Post, 24 Nov. 2025
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Capes’ Capewell calls it, still has great reverence for the ancient earth.
—Brandon Presser, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Oct. 2019
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Yet the Dygert bronze should be viewed with the same reverence as the Biles bronze.
—USA TODAY, 5 Aug. 2021
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In which body and face are vessels, temples of reverence, rather than shame.
—Caroline Rothstein, InStyle, 30 Dec. 2025
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It wasn’t designed for shelf space — it was designed for reverence.
—Sudhir Gupta, Rolling Stone, 12 Aug. 2025
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No 2 all-time in scoring and assists was enough to earn him reverence.
—Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 12 Nov. 2020
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But somehow held in reverence much like these objects?
—Literary Hub, 19 May 2026
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