(n.) An ode or song of praise or adoration; especially, a religious ode, a sacred lyric; a song of praise or thankgiving intended to be used in religious service; as, the Homeric hymns; Watts' hymns.
(v. t.) To praise in song; to worship or extol by singing hymns; to sing.
(v. i.) To sing in praise or adoration.
Example Sentences:
(1) A truck stopped on a street corner, blaring martyrdom hymns throughout the cavernous lanes and alleys of the party's heartland.
(2) As the hymns faded Francis made a now familiar appeal in English: “Please,” he said, “I ask you: don’t forget to pray for me.” It was his last scheduled event in New York.
(3) Many wept, wiping tears off their faces as the melancholic tunes of the hymns reached them through loudspeakers.
(4) He has also covered an old Scottish folk song, 'Hymn Of The Whale', as well as a fearsome semi-industrial track in the company of the erstwhile drummer from Nine Inch Nails.
(5) In East Germany this was our hymn,” says one man.
(6) A hymn to the depravity of Edinburgh that balances the noble pursuance of art.
(7) He was not a Christian then: he had had the conventional upper-class socialisation of tedious hymns and meaningless sermons, which normally functions as a vaccine against religious fervour.
(8) !” singing hymns and other songs The women, who are a range of ages, have travelled from across Gauteng province and are and saying a prayer ahead of a planned march in the city centre.
(9) Chanting battle hymns, they jogged past buildings still pockmarked by clashes with US forces who occupied the area in 2008 and had fought running battles with the Mahdi army for most of the nine years that they remained in Iraq.
(10) A hymn of praise, and a word of warning,” the book has been compiled by two titans of pragmatic ecology, Nigel Holmes and Paul Raven.
(11) How can he, of all people, hymn bourgeois notions such as commitment and conjugal felicity?
(12) She was undergoing a bone-marrow transplant for leukaemia when I was writing Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother and I went through a life-questioning crisis.
(13) The song – which cannot be described as great art - like many National Anthems including our own, is strident and solemn, and could be hymn.
(14) John Kampfner: Clegg has an opportunity now to strike out After Chairman Mao and the 1950s hymn book , the Liberal Democrats had the chance of offering something more modern and enticing than their rivals.
(15) The familiar biblical words, the quavering congregation working its way through Victorian hymns, the priest, who often has never met the deceased: all these deaden and distance.
(16) I know the hymns and I know the prayers and I know the good done by many Christians in the act of witness.
(17) The point is that Marine can have a clear-out, and everyone will now (more or less) sing from the same hymn sheet: hers.
(18) In Battle Hymn …, she writes that she was determined "not to raise a soft, entitled child – not to let my family fall".
(19) We stand up a lot in church, albeit tardily for the drearier hymns.
(20) There was even a chant of "Attack, attack, attack" from the Stretford End as the game kicked off as if in anticipation of the shackles of unadventurous football being thrown off, plus any number of favourite hymns to Giggs and Paul Scholes.
Noel
Definition:
(n.) Same as Nowel.
Example Sentences:
(1) By trading Holiday for Noel, the 76ers are effectively ending the Andrew Bynum experiment after one disastrous year and seem likely to start a rebuilding process.
(2) Noel Ernest Edmonds (@NoelEdmonds) A simple box that slows ageing, reduces pain, lifts depression and stress and tackles cancer .
(3) Noel Fielding told the press Amstell “ruined” Buzzcocks by being too abusive.
(4) "It was an idea from the Creation marketing department, I think," says Cannon now, "although I'm sure Noel [Gallagher] would say it was his!
(5) Celebrity use Celebrities who have admitted taking ecstasy include Oasis frontman Noel Gallagher, who claimed that taking drugs is 'like having a cup of tea', boyband star Brian Harvey and Blur's Damon Albarn.
(6) The Communist party leader, Marie-George Buffet, said the party was recommending a pro-Chirac vote in the May 5 runoff "to ensure that the candidate Le Pen gets as low a score as possible", while the Green candidate Noel Mamère said his party had resolved to vote Chirac in the second round "because, although this choice is unimaginable, we have a responsibility to society".
(7) Scullion said criticism of the comment by Indigenous leaders including Pat Dodson, Noel Pearson and the chairman of Abbott’s Indigenous advisory council, Warren Mundine, followed a “new convention” of “word-annoying”.
(8) We believe this risk is low enough to justify its use without viral inactivation, although certain additional measures, such as the 6-month quarantine devised by Dr. Noel, could increase the margin of safety even further.
(9) Movies like [Noel Clarke's] Adulthood are going to No 1.
(10) "I did that because Noel Fielding was doing it and I know him and could feel, you know, comfortable."
(11) Coad, representing Edmonds, said: “Noel has waited 10 years to see justice done after his business empire was brought down by Mr Dobson’s fraud, and if the Lloyds review process does not provide the recompense due to Noel, then all the necessary ordinance, including litigation funding, is in place to start legal proceedings.” Lloyds said the £100m compensation pot could be increased if necessary.
(12) Noel then does his own thing, hanging out with the latest band.
(13) The chart show, which made TV stars out of the likes of Noel Edmonds and Tony Blackburn, will run down its last-ever top 40 on July 30.
(14) Noel Gallagher is apparently “whittling down” more than 50 songs for a “seismic” new album, according to one of his long-time collaborators.
(15) With nine out of 10 Greater Manchester councils run by or dominated by Labour, the Labour candidate is expected to romp to victory unless a celebrity Mancunian like Noel Gallagher comes to the fore and steals the show.
(16) Calls by some community leaders like Noel Pearson that recognition be “symbolic” in the form of a declaration , have been comprehensively rejected by the committee.
(17) Machines at work “I can see mass unemployment on the horizon as the robotics revolution takes hold,” said Noel Sharkey, a professor emeritus of robotics and artificial intelligence at the University of Sheffield in the UK.
(18) "I feel absolutely cheated because the better team lost and the French cheated at the end," said Noel Cummins, sipping a pint in the Cobblestone pub.
(19) Noel plummeted all the way to No 6, where he was picked up by the New Orleans Pelicans – who sadly robbed us of a classic tongue-twister, "New Orleans' Nerlens Noel", by trading him to the Philadelphia 76ers.
(20) A total of 641 birds representing 135 species of 25 families from Noel Kempff Mercado National Park in west-central Bolivia was examined for hematozoa; only 33 (5.1%) harbored blood parasites.