(n. & interj.) Praise ye Jehovah; praise ye the Lord; -- an exclamation used chiefly in songs of praise or thanksgiving to God, and as an expression of gratitude or adoration.
Example Sentences:
(1) He described a personal hinterland of fishing, writing screenplays and listening to Handel's Hallelujah Chorus .
(2) The protesters, including a choir singing the Hallelujah chorus from Handel's Messiah, rejoiced at his departure.
(3) Not really, but there were lots of little hallelujah moments over the years.
(4) If I had to pick up one, I like Handel's Hallelujah Chorus.
(5) By the way, I spelled hallelujah right the first time - I checked (pats himself on the back).
(6) One woman was euphoric at the high court ruling, walking around the forecourt declaring: "God bless Australia, hallelujah … God is love; God is love."
(7) Their entrant Lordi, with Hard Rock Hallelujah , was all conquering amidst a sea of bland, pretty blond girls.
(8) One kid he's been working with is J-Star Valentine, who is supporting him on tour and who gained a modicum of notoriety for his rather baroque rendition of Hallelujah on week one of The X Factor this year.
(9) He listens to European classical music, and Handel's Hallelujah Chorus is his favourite.
(10) He is from the private sector, not a politician – can I get a ‘Hallelujah!’ Where, in the private sector, you actually have to balance budgets in order to prioritize, to keep the main thing, the main thing, and he knows the main thing: a president is to keep us safe economically and militarily.
(11) It expects to be the biggest seller of X Factor winner Alexandra Burke's Christmas single - a version of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah - after undercutting the rest of the high street with a £3.19 price tag.
(12) Although a 1964 film captured something of the play's anarchic lunacy, with Eric Sykes constructing a model of the Old Bailey in his living room while a mute Jonathan Miller taught 100 speak-your-weight machines to sing the Hallelujah Chorus, the play was too theatrical for the cinema.
(13) Manuel Días, a 20-ish Tzotzil, is pumping out joyful hallelujahs on the electronic organ.
(14) Buckley shot to fame after recording a cover version of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah , and received critical acclaim for his debut album, Grace , before he drowned, aged 30, in 1997.
(15) In the good old days we could have celebrated the first real warmth of spring but now (and this is where the hallelujahs fade away) we think of the damage being done to the polar ice caps.
(16) Hallelujah Lulie, a researcher at the Institute for Security Studies in Ethiopia, said: “There are many countries with no term limits, but we have to start by respecting the constitutions where term limits are clearly set.
(17) Not since Finnish rockers Lordi swept the board with "Hard Rock Hallelujah" had there been such a unanimous winner.
(18) And though the church’s leadership generally disapproves of any demonstrable triumphalism on these occasions, most people in the church will want to holler a pretty emphatic hallelujah.
(19) Now he’s come along and said: ‘All right – we don’t know what’s best; we’re going to find out what’s best.’” Eighty-three-year-old Ann Cross is also in holiday mode – sunnies and floppy hat – and singing hallelujahs to the new dawn.
(20) Meanwhile, newlyweds Chris and Leah O'Kane were surprised when their priest serenaded them with a rendition of Hallelujah.
Yahweh
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Example Sentences:
(1) And an outstanding reason for choosing some sort of god or spiritual-type thing to worship - be it JC or Allah, be it Yahweh or the Wiccan mother-goddess or the Four Noble Truths or some infrangible set of ethical principles - is that pretty much anything else you worship will eat you alive.