How to Use hymn in a Sentence

hymn

noun

• The Christians were mid-hymn when the mob kicked in the door.
  — New York Times, 23 Dec. 2021
• The best Easter hymns are the ones that stir your faith.
  — Jorie Nicole McDonald, Southern Living, 31 Jan. 2024
• Moving is like singing the words of a loved hymn to a new tune.
  — Ann Hymes, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 June 2022
• Embedded in the show about her life are the hymns that gave her strength.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 5 May 2023
• The Bishop of London then led the service of prayers and hymns.
  — Simon Perry, Peoplemag, 12 Nov. 2023
• The Williams sisters, with the click-and-clack hymn of their beads swinging from their hair?
  — Jeneé Osterheldt, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Sep. 2022
• But the motet ends with the calm assurance of a Lutheran hymn.
  — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 4 Oct. 2021
• Who else but the supreme artist of hate and fear can find those voters and lure them with his dark hymn?
  — Mark Danner, The New York Review of Books, 1 July 2021
• Tice was among the hymn writers Sensmeier worked with at GIA.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Aug. 2022
• Then, women in the crowd began singing a haunting hymn, their words whipped away by the wind.
  — New York Times, 27 Apr. 2022
• Based on an old hymn, the song since become a gospel standard, sung throughout the world.
  — John Blake, CNN, 19 June 2022
• When his casket shut closed and a hymn began, the room erupted in grief.
  — Lilly Price, Baltimore Sun, 31 May 2022
• Rigid controls were in place so that the users couldn’t, say, prompt the John Legend A.I. to sing a hymn to terrorists.
  — John Seabrook, The New Yorker, 29 Jan. 2024
• Then Reveille, one more hymn and a blessing, and Brown’s casket was carried back out of the church and driven away in a hearse.
  — Brian Melley, ajc, 25 May 2023
• The wooden pews still stand where worshippers sang hymns on Sundays, and young children read their lessons the rest of the week.
  — Martin E. Comas, Orlando Sentinel, 22 Feb. 2023
• One nurse would just hum or begin singing the hymn with me which was very comforting and calming for me.
  — Andrea Wurzburger, PEOPLE.com, 2 Nov. 2021
• Most startling, Box added, was the way the old massive concrete structure swayed during the war hymn.
  — Brent Zwerneman, San Antonio Express-News, 23 Aug. 2022
• Shoulders slumped, the family joined the crowd, who silently clapped and then chanted a hymn.
  — Clara Migoya, The Arizona Republic, 26 Sep. 2021
• As Sheppard recalled in her diary, the troupe left the hotel with the mob still in tow and walked to the railroad stop, where the choir began to sing a hymn.
  — Vann R. Newkirk Ii, The Atlantic, 13 Nov. 2023
• During the Mass, the faint sound of drums and bagpipes could be heard coming in from outside between the hymn’s verses.
  — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 15 June 2023
• Very few people know this but John Newton, the Englishman who wrote the hymn in 1772, was a slave trader for a long time.
  — Ariana Marsh, Harper's BAZAAR, 18 Aug. 2021
• Before the final hymn, the imperial state crown, the orb and the scepter will be taken from the queen’s coffin and placed on the altar.
  — WSJ, 19 Sep. 2022
• In the main sanctuary, Nellie, the church pianist, played a quiet hymn.
  — Greg Jaffe, Washington Post, 24 May 2021
• The singers’ voices rose and filled the sanctuary, words and music giving way to the emotional power of the hymn.
  — Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2023
• The hymn’s message takes a more poignant meaning following his death.
  — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 24 Oct. 2022
• And that night Lucier responded with a new version of a four hundred year old Catholic hymn, the Salve Regina.
  — Phil Klay, Time, 17 Aug. 2023
• Williams’ faith inspired her to write jazz hymns and jazz masses that were performed in Catholic churches throughout the States and in Europe.
  — Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 1 Feb. 2024
• It was written by James Weldon Johnson, who considered the piece a hymn.
  — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 11 Feb. 2024
• The last time the village offered prayers and hymns to Our Lady of the Torrents was in 2008, local media reported.
  — Emilio Morenatti, ajc, 26 Mar. 2023
• The congregation will sing a hymn that was chosen by Prince Philip to be played at his funeral.
  — Erin Hill, PEOPLE.com, 28 Mar. 2022

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024