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• A recessional hymn is sung in a procession returning from the choir to the robing room.From the entry recessional
• The antiphonal hymn was sung regularly at church.From the entry antiphonal
• The hymn “Amazing Grace” is in common meter.From the entry common meter
• They sang hymns that glorified God.From the entry glorified
• The program also teaches tribal hymn classes for their senior population.2024 October 15, “Poarch Creek Indians celebrate Indigenous People’s Day”, in Fox 10 News. From the entry Mvskoke
• He composed hymns, read holy works, and carried his bookchests wherever he went.2013, Nancy Marie Brown, The Abacus and the Cross, page 206. From the entry bookchest
• Churchical adopts the reggae beat to all hymns; heartical is the regular dance music.2010, Leonard Barrett, The Rastafarians, →ISBN, page 267. From the entry heartical
• The liturgical form of hymn which replaced the kontakion was the canon, a set of nine hymns.2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 454. From the entry kontakion
• This vexed question underlies Frank Cottrell Boyce’s hilarious and ingenious hymn to dadliness and all things dadly.2008 July 12, “Cosmic by Frank Cottrell Boyce, read by Daniel Ryan; Macmillan, 6hrs, £16.99”, in The Daily Telegraph, number 47,621, page 31. From the entry dadliness
• His psalms were sung to the tissing larch, his hymns to the purple heath.1962, R F Delderfield, The Unjust Skies (also 1980 Diana), Afterglow. From the entry tiss
• Popular music, most hymns, semipopular music, and most folk music lack subtlety.1959, Charles Leonhard, Robert William House, Foundations and principles of music education. From the entry semipopular
• Out in the yard a womanʼs hoarse contralto intoned a hymn.1952, Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, Penguin Books (2014), page 68. From the entry contralto
• After the Lord's Prayer the Missionaries duetted a hymn while the children stared at me.1941, Emily Carr, chapter 1, in Klee Wyck. From the entry duet
• A dozen soup-plates circulated, and a hymn was sung to the accompaniment of much chinking of coin.1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html)…. From the entry chinking
• He also gridled sacred hymns in the streets, and sung sporting songs in the alehouses.1908, W. H. Davies, chapter 31, in The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp. From the entry gridle
• As a van passed by blaring patriotic hymns from the oversize speakers on its roof, she weeded the riverbank.2017 December 17, Kee B. Park, “Amid Talk of Nuclear Weapons, North Koreans Go Hungry”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from…. From the entry weed
• In Kurmanji, the dialect spoken by most Yezidis and northern Kurds, the holiest of hymns is a qewl.2017 September 13, Alex Cuadros, “Songs from Sinjar”, in Lapham’s Quarterly, retrieved 03 Jul 2020. From the entry qewl
• “We sing our Sunday hymns a cappella, too,” Sadie said.2012, Rosalind Lauer, A Simple Spring: A Seasons of Lancaster Novel, page 163. From the entry Deutsch
• Many of our hymns begin with it, and scarcely any, that are good for anything, end without it.2008, Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Devotional Classics of C. H. Spurgeon, →ISBN, page 8. From the entry sum total
• In many places trcas are divided into ekarcas, hymns of mono-verses; maybe this MS follows a different version of SV.2002, Harvard Oriental Series - Volume 2; Volume 58. From the entry mono-verse
• Frederick spent countless hours with Lawson in the drayman’s shack reading the bible aloud, singing hymns, and praying together.1997 [1797], David W. Blight, “Editor's Introduction: The Peculiar Dialogue Between Caleb Bingham and Frederick Douglass”, in Caleb…. From the entry bible
• A medieval hymn composed by the Dayyan ("Judge") Daniel b.1996, Macy Nulman, The Encyclopedia of Jewish Prayer, page 375. From the entry dayan
• Him and you and Pardee and McKinnick come here drunk as lords and sing hymns till you passed out.”1991, Peter Bowen, Kelly Blue. From the entry pure quill
• The idea of melodic references to existing hymns serves the composer well, even though the Gloria gets a little "waltzy."1971, Church Music, numbers 1-2, page 39. From the entry waltzy
• I left him and went to a tavern by the quays where the college bucks were drinking and singing hymns.1963, J P Donleavy, A Singular Man, published 1963 (USA), page 204. From the entry riposte
• Birdsong, who followed the Colombian, stopped his hymn singing at this lickerish pantomime and watched his fellow muleteer in righteous disapproval.1922, T. S. Stribling, “The Web of the Sun”, in Adventure, Chapter 3. From the entry lickerish
• Impressive processions and sacred hymns, banners, crucifices, and assaults upon the Jews heightened the effect of his impassioned appeals.1907, George Frederick Abbott, Israel in Europe, page 152. From the entry crucifices
• While some lyrics may be changed for linguistic and cultural clarity, the spiritual essence of the hymn will always remain the same.2025, Fifteen New Hymns Available to Use in Church and at Home. From the entry transcreate
• Between ticky off-kilter rhythms and otherworldly digital voice processing, the experimental hip-hop genres trap and drill have delivered radical hymns from alien planets.2022, W. David Marx, chapter 10, in Status and Culture, Viking, →ISBN. From the entry drill
• The words “love” and “rainbow” would disappear from his oxymorous hymn of love and hate, which would thus be reduced to a lament of hate.2000, Arnold Cassola, The Literature of Malta: An Example of Unity in Diversity, Minima, →ISBN, page 173. From the entry oxymorous
• It is generally assumed that the sun goddess functions in the Shapash hymn as psychopomp, transporter of the dead to and from their netherly abode.1994, Brian B. Schmidt, Israel's Beneficent Dead: Ancestor Cult and Necromancy in Ancient Israelite Religion and Tradition, page 84. From the entry psychopomp
• I do not demand that they worship the body, nature, naturalness, simpleheartedly and I do not demand that they sing hymns to nudists.1993, Witold Gombrowicz, Jan Kott, Diary - Volume 3, →ISBN, page 93. From the entry simpleheartedly
• They have used this one-time hymn of the Republic as a spring board to Tarzanic debauchery, humour and a bit of entertainment.1992 November 26, The Canberra Times, page 20, column 6. From the entry Tarzanic
• Company housing, company hymn, company funeral.1984, William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl; book 1), New York, N.Y.: Ace Books, →ISBN, page 37. From the entry zaibatsu
• The ecclesiastically robed Choral Majority put on the best performance of the evening, singing their popular satires on several popular hymns and patriotic anthems.1982 December 11, John Kyper, “March for Milk, Moscone: A Memory and a Tradition”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 21, page 3. From the entry ecclesiastically
• While on maneuvers in South Carolina, Billy played hymns he knew from childhood, played them on a little black organ which was waterproof.1969, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., chapter 2 (pages 19–42), in Slaughterhouse-Five, or, The Children’s Crusade: A Duty-dance with Death, Vintage…. From the entry vox humana
• The De Immensa is . . . a prolonged hymn of wonder and praise and intellectual exaltation, sung in the temple of immensity.1914, William Boulting, Giordano Bruno: His Life, Thought, and Martyrdom (2013 Routledge edition), p. 238 (Google preview). From the entry temple of immensity

Meaning of hymn

1. noun A song of praise or worship, especially a religious one.
2. verb To sing a hymn.
3. verb To praise or extol in hymns.

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Questions about hymn in a sentence

How do you use hymn in a sentence?

Hymn is used as a noun and verb. For example: “A recessional hymn is sung in a procession returning from the choir to the robing room.”

What is a short sentence with hymn?

“Company housing, company hymn, company funeral.”

What does hymn mean?

Hymn means a song of praise or worship, especially a religious one.