How to use "pious" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "pious" in popular movie and book plots

  • Mortensgaard needs Rosmer's public support to show that there are prominent, respectable, pious citizens who agree with his policies.  - Rosmersholm
  • The fourth seemed dreamy and pious but was suspected to be the third putting on an act.  - The Hound of Death
  • A story of humble life, centering in two saintly personalities, a dignified and pious Scottish peasant, and his daughter.  - David Elginbrod
  • Gabriel's entry into the order is not accidental – it is his pious mother, manipulated by the Jesuits, who persuaded him to become a Jesuit.  - The Wandering Jew (novel)
  • The work expresses the author's atheism by having a dying man (a libertine) tell a priest about what he views as the mistakes of a pious life.  - Dialogue Between a Priest and a Dying Man
  • Dan, already friends with Nat, is unexpectedly drawn to the pious Demi and the toddler Teddy.  - Little Men
  • Mikkel, the eldest, has no faith, but is happily married to the pious Inger, who is pregnant with their third child.  - Ordet
  • Andrew, a pious man, pressures Paul into staying to help sort out the sale of their father's cottage and the adjoining orchard.  - In My Father's Den (film)
  • The manager of Bayview is Harvey Bains, who runs the establishment with his assistant, the homely, spinsterish and pious Jane Edwards.  - Waiting for God (TV series)
  • At the end of the training session, she is worn out from Bismark's "sadistic abuse, pious drivel and sheer double talk".  - Semi-Tough
  • Romeo Guildenstern, their leader, is a pious man, deeply faithful to his belief and consequently immune to the Dark's powers.  - Vagrant Story
  • The inland rural settlement of Waknuk is a frontier farming community, populated with hardy and generally pious individuals.  - The Chrysalids
  • She tells him that her father, a physician and strictly pious Jew, forced her to marry her cousin whom she did not love.  - Daniel Deronda
  • Distraught by the death of his pious brother, he seeks death in any way possible.  - Interview with the Vampire
  • Still, the pious Willa believes he married her to show her God's light rather than to gain access to the money.  - The Night of the Hunter (film)
  • Billy, a pious worker for the Ethos religious group, was originally from Solaris.  - Xenogears

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