(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.
Song
Definition:
(n.) That which is sung or uttered with musical modulations of the voice, whether of a human being or of a bird, insect, etc.
(n.) A lyrical poem adapted to vocal music; a ballad.
(n.) More generally, any poetical strain; a poem.
(n.) Poetical composition; poetry; verse.
(n.) An object of derision; a laughingstock.
(n.) A trifle.
Example Sentences:
(1) This week's unconfirmed claims that Kim's uncle Jang Song Thaek had been ousted from power have refocused attention on the country's domestic affairs; some analysts say Jang was associated with reform .
(2) Quotes Justin Timberlake: "Even more importantly customers love it … over 20 million listening on iTunes Radio, listened to over a billion songs.
(3) Living by the "Big River" as a child, Cash soaked up work songs, church music, and country & western from radio station WMPS in Memphis, or the broadcasts from Nashville's Grand Ole Opry on Friday and Saturday evenings.
(4) Unilateral lesions of n. intercollicularis (previously implicated in the control of vocal behavior) had little effect on song.
(5) When we arrived, he would instruct us to spend the morning composing a song or a poem, or inventing a joke or a charade.
(6) It’s going to affect everybody.” The six songs from Rebel Heart released thus far do not shy away from controversy: one, Illuminati, mocks the various conspiracy theories on the internet that implicate a variety of entertainers – including Jay-Z and Lady Gaga – in membership of a shadowy ruling elite.
(7) Back then, before her life took a darker turn, Holiday was able to leave the song, and its politics, at the door on the way out.
(8) HVc and RA grow during the subsong and plastic song periods of song development.
(9) Furthermore, the homoeotic legs of SSa females are not required to be present for the detection of courtship song, since females whose homoeotic legs were removed could still distinguish between singing and non-singing males.
(10) Song appeared to give Bolt a good luck charm to wear around his wrist.
(11) Mahler's Second Symphony - that song of love, renewal, and spiritual growth that Abbado has been singing for more than 40 years.
(12) They released a song on (the now banned) YouTube, called Alu Anday (Potatoes and Eggs) taking a swipe at the military as well as sectarian killers.
(13) As we walk away from the restaurant, he looks up an interview (with himself) on his iPhone and announces his musical credentials: "Yup, two Radiohead songs in both 'Clueless' and 'Romeo and Juliet', back when all anybody knew was 'Creep'.
(14) Alighting upon the final four songs recorded by Drake, he pressed play and began to make notes before setting about mixing them for this putative release.
(15) "Here's Munich's Philharmonic Orchestra composing and writing a song for F.C.
(16) These results are compatible with the idea that tamoxifen does not block the action of estradiol in the brain of zebra finches, and suggest that the effects of early tamoxifen treatment on the morphology of the song system may reflect central actions of tamoxifen.
(17) If you want to describe sex, write a book or a song, or create a medical App,” they explain.
(18) Some artists get thousands of songs pitched and they never know, so Beyoncé herself probably never heard it.
(19) In mating test, hybrid males cout and are accepted by D. simulans females more than hybrid females (presumably because their song is more "acceptable" to the former).
(20) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Cream (1991) was Prince’s fifth US No 1 hit single His profile boosted by Sinéad O’Connor’s version of his song Nothing Compares 2 U, Prince embarked on another film and music project with Graffiti Bridge.