How to Use psalm in a Sentence
psalm
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Monks would be getting up at 1 in the morning to sing the psalms.
—Randy Dotinga, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Nov. 2019
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The psalm begins: The Lord is my light and my salvation.
—David Woods, Indianapolis Star, 15 Feb. 2018
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The psalm — often chanted or sung — was signed as well.
—Washington Post, 28 Dec. 2019
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The Salvadoran migrant has held onto Jill Biden’s words like a psalm.
—Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2020
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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
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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
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Each of the three movements includes a full psalm along with contrasting parts of another.
—Mark Swed, latimes.com, 20 Apr. 2018
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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
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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
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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
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The more psalm-like accompaniments outweigh the purpler prose.
—Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2021
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Back then, the Presbyterian church permitted only more modest music — psalms only.
—Christina Tkacik, baltimoresun.com, 7 May 2018
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