How to Use psalm in a Sentence

psalm

noun

• Monks would be getting up at 1 in the morning to sing the psalms.
  — Randy Dotinga, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Nov. 2019
• The psalm begins: The Lord is my light and my salvation.
  — David Woods, Indianapolis Star, 15 Feb. 2018
• The psalm — often chanted or sung — was signed as well.
  — Washington Post, 28 Dec. 2019
• In my crises, lines of Hopkins rather than psalms appear on my lips: Mine, O thou Lord of life, send my roots rain.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 8 Sep. 2017
• The swirled pastel marble print and psalm inscription makes this a stylish choice to tote around all day long.
  — Jamie Kravitz, Woman's Day, 3 Aug. 2022
• No worries – following along with psalms on an iPhone is the norm (and selfies in the bathroom are cool, too).
  — Maria Tallarico, Cosmopolitan, 31 Aug. 2017
• Books of Hours are breviaries, or a selection of prayers and psalms taken from long prayer books used by monks.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 28 Jan. 2020
• The Salvadoran migrant has held onto Jill Biden’s words like a psalm.
  — Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2020
• As the Dean of Windsor recites a final psalm, the whole platform will descend into the royal vault.
  — Ruby Mellen, Washington Post, 16 Sep. 2022
• The lyrics of this song, which is based on a psalm, were originally written by a minister named Isaac Watts.
  — Elizabeth Berry, Woman's Day, 2 Dec. 2022
• Each of the three movements includes a full psalm along with contrasting parts of another.
  — Mark Swed, latimes.com, 20 Apr. 2018
• In it, the rapper looks at a shifting America through fresh eyes and emerges with a manifesto of sorts; these are trap-psalms for the forgotten.
  — Juan Vidal, Billboard, 19 June 2018
• And there’s Vivaldi’s Nisi Dominus again, and with no knob to turn or button to press for silence, the psalm’s exquisite ache unfurls.
  — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Sep. 2023
• The temple will also hold singing, psalms, Torah study, healing services, office hours, and story time for children through Zoom calls.
  — David Tarrant, Dallas News, 6 Apr. 2020
• The service includes prayers, remarks from family, eulogies from the rabbi and friends and family and a reading of psalms and prayers.
  — USA TODAY, 24 Mar. 2020
• The more psalm-like accompaniments outweigh the purpler prose.
  — Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2021
• On a visit last fall to Ms. Ribeiro’s emerald green house on a dirt street, where the 23rd psalm hangs on a yellow wall, Ana Vitória toddled around, clutching a piece of spongy cake with one hand, thumping a table with the other.
  — Pam Belluck and Tania Franco, New York Times, 1 May 2017
• In the painting’s foreground, St. Thomas Aquinas, intellectual-in-chief of the Dominican order, holds out an open book of psalms to us like a maître-d’ offering a menu.
  — New York Times, 16 May 2018
• This mammoth festival of psalms, the centerpiece of this year’s White Light Festival, features the work of 150 composers, many of them writing today.
  — David Allen, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2017
• Each cross had been decorated with a victim's name and photo as well as balloons, American flags, flowers and psalms.
  — Rose Velazquez, USA TODAY, 2 June 2019
• Moscow: Three people have been arrested after a church held a maskless psalm singing event in a city hall parking lot in violation of the town’s mask order.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 28 Sep. 2020
• Kunstadt cut out pages from two 19th-century books of psalms and cut and glued them to create delicate constructions, often enhanced with gold leaf.
  — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 10 July 2017
• Translators affiliated with the Chabad-Lubavitch movement have produced a book of psalms and are working on a daily prayer book, with their sights set on a full translation of the Torah.
  — David I. Klein, Sun Sentinel, 29 Mar. 2023
• But those words were eventually rendered invisible in the 11th century when the text was written over with Christian psalms.
  — Julissa Treviño, Smithsonian, 15 Mar. 2018
• And in a heartening choral number, a traditional Hebrew prayer for peace entwines with a Christian psalm and acts of Muslim devotion.
  — Misha Berson, The Seattle Times, 16 Oct. 2018
• Across town, as the sun began to set, hundreds of community members gathered at a baseball diamond to light candles, recite psalms, and share memories of the victims.
  — Steven Porter, BostonGlobe.com, 7 June 2023
• Changing keys requires retying them all—impossible for monks who must not only pray a half-dozen times a day but constantly rotate through the twelve canonical psalm tones.
  — Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2022
• Journalist and wanderer, Ketcham has written a psalm to nature and a manifesto to stop the forces that are threatening a territory that stretches from Colorado to the Pacific Coast.
  — Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2019
• Just as May’s coronation ceremony gave nods to the multicultural nature of Britain today, Wednesday’s church service will include a psalm sung in Gaelic.
  — Danica Kirka, USA TODAY, 5 July 2023
• Back then, the Presbyterian church permitted only more modest music — psalms only.
  — Christina Tkacik, baltimoresun.com, 7 May 2018

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024