How to Use godly in a Sentence

godly

adjective
Definition of godlynext
Synonyms for godlynext
  • She lived a godly life.
  • His godly pride seems to be the most injured part of him.
    — Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2022
  • Next to the scripture are two godly hands cradling a truck.
    — Andrew Kay, WIRED, 17 Jan. 2023
  • Such zeal can lead us to act in ways than are less than godly.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Sep. 2021
  • Donovan Mitchell is the point of the spear on this, and in the last two playoffs, his 3-point shooting was godly.
    — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 29 Apr. 2022
  • Her plan to raise her son right hinged on striving to be a godly parent, not her son's friend.
    — Andrew Oglesby, CNN, 31 Dec. 2021
  • But swinging around the Stars and Stripes is not a godly nor a Latter-day Saint mission.
    — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 July 2023
  • He was born human, but with godly strength, and his father was Zeus, ruler of all gods and humans.
    — CBS News, 6 Oct. 2022
  • My own take on these kinds of things is usually shaped by the input of many godly men and women.
    — al, 28 June 2021
  • For some reason, coffee is a sin there, but bubbly dairy syrup is a godly bevvy.
    — Vulture, 1 Dec. 2022
  • Closest To God: Leeza Forgiving the man who shot you and left you paralysed might be the most godly thing anyone’s done on this show so far.
    — Shannon Carlin, refinery29.com, 26 Sep. 2021
  • For the hip-hop generation, sampled strings and horns and choirs were invoked and deployed like godly forces, brought in at the touch of a finger.
    — Jayson Greene, Pitchfork, 17 Oct. 2023
  • This is fatherhood, the devil god and the golden calf — the godly man, a jealous human being.
    — Dwight Garner, New York Times, 7 Nov. 2022
  • The ancient Sumerians believed the palm was the first tree ever created, and that it was tended by a godly raven.
    — Matti Friedman, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Dec. 2022
  • Many first-person novels read like pleas made to an imagined court, one of public or godly opinion.
    — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024
  • The President was a godly figure in everything Roland had read.
    — Ian McEwan, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2022
  • There are levels within the Celestial, but the best of the best is a condition known as exaltation, where and when all the good, godly stuff can happen.
    — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 17 July 2022
  • Battling cancer in her human form and Gorr in her godly form, Jane Foster was embroiled in an epic struggle with plenty of love and thunder!
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 21 Apr. 2022
  • In the Catholic Church, saints are thought to live near God in heaven, to intercede with God on behalf of believers, and to be exemplars of godly behavior.
    — Jonathan M. Pitts, Baltimore Sun, 22 June 2023
  • This is self-worship; this, according to my grandmother, is godly work.
    — Gloria Malone, refinery29.com, 29 Mar. 2022
  • To use religious parlance, these other loves proved to be stumbling blocks — obstacles on the path to a godly life, if not to salvation itself.
    — Sarah Jones, Vulture, 18 Sep. 2021
  • But their lives also were bound by the whims and wishes of clerics and parishioners who saw no contradiction between the pursuit of a godly life and enslaving a human being.
    — Brian MacQuarrie, BostonGlobe.com, 18 June 2023
  • To say anything more would have discredited my experience as a godly one.
    — Samuel Ernest, Longreads, 2 May 2023
  • Kratos and son flee, beginning a journey that leads to personal revelations, inner growth, and obviously, a litany of godly corpses in their wake.
    — Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 3 Nov. 2022
  • Krasnostein noted the irony of this troupe of godly people serenading the sinners of Sodom and Gomorrah, but found their voices enchanting.
    — Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2022
  • For the burgeoning religious right, Planned Parenthood became a potent symbol of the multitude of sins unleashed by the enemies of a godly nation.
    — Sarah Posner, Rolling Stone, 25 Mar. 2021
  • For 12-year-old Percy Jackson (Walker Scobell), who has always felt like an outsider, coming of age means godly encounters, foretold prophecies and cross-country quests.
    — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Lauren says her growth as an artist has been a cathartic process on a personal level, revealing to her the importance of showing Southern Black women as godly, regal and invaluable.
    — Cheyenne M. Davis, Chron, 7 Oct. 2021
  • Finally, Dowd's character is confronting real doubts about Gilead’s godly image, a shift that could leave her devastated.
    — Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 28 Oct. 2022
  • Such documents reveal widely varying strategies for staying focussed on a godly life.
    — Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2023

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