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Six example sentences with pious, each labelled with its topic.
Pious donors paid for the cathedral's west front, believing the stonework itself was an act of worship.
Architecture
The pious king walked the last mile to the shrine barefoot, and fasted for three days before entering.
History
Pious patrons commissioned altarpieces showing themselves kneeling at the edge of the scene, hands joined, eyes raised in prayer.
Art
In Plato's dialogue Socrates asks whether the gods love an act because it is pious, or whether their love makes it so.
Philosophy
Bach was pious enough to sign his scores with a note of thanks to God, even the ones written for a coffee house.
Music
Pious travelers still walk the last hundred kilometers to the cathedral, and the hostels along the road fill by early afternoon.
Travel
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