How to Use anthem in a Sentence

anthem

noun

• The anthem is intended not just to align with the heroic tone of the game, but with the highs and lows of the esports journey.
  — Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 18 Nov. 2024
• The playing of the national anthem—which blared through the public address system at the start of each day’s shift change—would stop.
  — Drew Hinshaw, WSJ, 17 June 2022
• There were minor scuffles in the stands and some booed the Israeli anthem, Reuters reported.
  — Chantal Da Silva, NBC News, 14 Nov. 2024
• Someone began singing the Ukrainian national anthem, and everybody else joined in, loudly, to make sure that the priests heard them.
  — Ed Caesar, The New Yorker, 20 June 2022
• As written, Hazard's song was in no danger of being considered a feminist anthem.
  — Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 6 Nov. 2024
• The defiant party anthem doubles as a statement of intent as the newcomer lays down her approach to life, love, and the industry.
  — Neena Rouhani, Billboard, 13 June 2022
• Jonathon Ramsey went for a heartland anthem, calling on George Thorogood’s help selling a Buick.
  — Jonathon Ramsey, Car and Driver, 24 June 2022
• Beyonce’s new single sounds like a power anthem for the Great Resignation.
  — Fortune, 21 June 2022
• Rapinoe was the first white athlete and the first female athlete to take a knee during the national anthem in support of Colin Kaepernick.
  — Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 July 2022
• For a movie whose chief anthem is an advertisement for the joys of defying gravity, Wicked is surprisingly leaden, with a promise of more of the same to come.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 20 Nov. 2024
• The response to her spirited new Christian anthem, among the public and in military camps, was immediate and overwhelming.
  — Fox News, 2 July 2022
• The song became the anthem for Iran protests around the globe.
  — Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 15 Oct. 2024
• The self-love anthem topped the charts at No. 1 and proved to be a hit with her fans.
  — Jasmine Washington, Seventeen, 10 Mar. 2023
• Listen to the great anthems of the era as they were meant to be heard in the club.
  — Melinda Sheckells, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Aug. 2024
• In the first episode, Cowgirl sang the Spice Girls' anthem 'Wannabe'.
  — Alicia Vrajlal, refinery29.com, 24 Oct. 2023
• Oh, you guys don’t sing the anthem, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
  — Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 22 Aug. 2023
• The cumbia, like an anthem that renews, starts to play.
  — Chantal Flores, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2023
• Meghan had to Google the lyrics to the British national anthem!
  — Monica Hesse, Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2022
• The horn player’s anthem signaled the end of the hunt and asked for the blessing of the forest.
  — John B. Snow, Outdoor Life, 6 June 2024
• The swirly, girly pop anthem crept to No. 1 to mark her 10th chart-topper.
  — Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 14 Apr. 2024
• Then, a few minutes later—the crowd assembled, the fires lit, the anthem sung—the chutes open.
  — Corey Seymour, Vogue, 13 Jan. 2023
• But the narrative became that O’Connor had refused to take the stage if the anthem was played.
  — Hanif Abdurraqib, The New Yorker, 29 July 2023
• Sometimes, my records are very girly — like ‘WAP’ is a girly anthem.
  — Starr Bowenbank, Billboard, 13 July 2022
• Then a 37-year-old anthem from one of music’s great oddballs, Kate Bush, did the same.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 17 Aug. 2022
• Her singing slowed to a whisper during parts of the anthem and seemed out of pitch for most of the performance.
  — Nate Rau, Axios, 16 July 2024
• Harry stood with his eyes forward and his arms by his side as the anthem played.
  — Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 11 May 2024
• The Cunninghams were impressed that the Prince and Princess of Wales knew the words, singing the anthem heartily when the band played towards the end of the parade.
  — Simon Perry, Peoplemag, 1 Mar. 2023
• Still, the standout moments from his set came in between the anthems.
  — Sean Burch, SPIN, 14 May 2024
• The country star's swoops on the anthem's final notes sent the Arizona crowd into spasms of cheers.
  — Louisville Courier Journal, The Courier-Journal, 13 Feb. 2023
• Based around the season’s cold open, the song harkens back to the timelessness of East Coast hip-hop and features Bumpy’s anthem.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 11 June 2023

Last Updated: 11 Dec 2024