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Recent Examples of hymn
Noun
Today, a carol is a religious folk song or popular hymn (like a Christmas tune). Ryan Brennan, Kansas City Star, 20 Jan. 2025 The artists could have picked punk rock instead of choir hymns, traveling around dive bars recording punks screaming about anarchy and smashing up their gear. Oskar Oprey, Artforum, 28 Jan. 2025
Verb
Where waving woods and waters wild Do hymn an autumn sound. Rebekah Lowin, Country Living, 17 Aug. 2022 But this wasn’t a flattening of hierarchies of the sort long hymned in Silicon Valley reveries of the online demos. Nathaniel Friedman, The New Republic, 21 Oct. 2019 See All Example Sentences for hymn
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hymn
Noun
  • Donald Trump’s musings about annexations led to Canadians booing the U.S. anthem, which likely had something to do with all that fighting in the teams’ first meeting of the tournament.
    Alex Kirshner, The Athletic, 23 Feb. 2025
  • The teams have a storied rivalry, regardless of anthems.
    Raechal Shewfelt, EW.com, 22 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Kylie Jenner continues to pay tribute to her friend and hairstylist Jesus Guerrero.
    Charna Flam, People.com, 1 Mar. 2025
  • The name Gathright Dam pays tribute to Thomas Gathright, the man whose land the Jackson River flooded prior to the impoundment being built.
    Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 1 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • The comedian, who co-starred in Next Friday and Friday After Next, went on to praise Cube for putting people on.
    Mya Abraham, VIBE.com, 4 Mar. 2025
  • Vionic Uptown Loafers Shoppers can’t stop praising how the Uptown Loafers don’t need breaking in even during trips that require a lot of walking.
    Rylee Johnston, Travel + Leisure, 3 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The Lady Olive certainly sank: All of its crew members escaped in lifeboats, singing psalms to stave off hypothermia, and were saved after 36 hours at sea.
    Sean Kingsley, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Feb. 2025
  • He is known as the patron saint of bookbinders and wrote an illustrative book of psalms while at the monastery of St. Finnian, according to Discovering Ireland.
    Joyce Orlando, The Tennessean, 15 Mar. 2024
Noun
  • Every citation must be confirmed against primary sources.
    Lars Daniel, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2025
  • Then, in 2008, Boshoff encountered a scholarly citation about a Portuguese ship that sank en route from Mozambique to Brazil, carrying two hundred Africans to their deaths.
    Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • Factorial celebrated a significant accomplishment in December last year when its Solstice all-solid-state battery cells reached a 40-Ah capacity.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 2 Mar. 2025
  • Michael Buckner—Penske Media/Getty Images Adrien Brody and Halle Berry reenact their notorious Oscars kiss At the 2003 Oscars, Adrien Brody controversially celebrated his Best Actor win for The Pianist by planting a surprise smooch on presenter Halle Berry onstage.
    Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 2 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Each of the seven former employees interviewed for this article had received commendations, cash awards or multiple positive reviews yet were told they were being let go because of poor performance.
    Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY, 28 Feb. 2025
  • There’s a picture of him with Senator Bernie Sanders taken on the steps of the Vermont state capitol; a letter from former Senator Patrick Leahy; a commendation from former Governor Peter Shumlin.
    Alana Semuels/Waitsfield, TIME, 24 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • Drake has continued to bless fans experiencing financial hardship during his Anita Max Wynn Tour through Australia.
    Michael Saponara, Billboard, 25 Feb. 2025
  • Last May, during a celebration of the Camargo’s discovery, a young priest from the quilombo went to sea to bless the excavation.
    Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025

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“Hymn.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hymn. Accessed 10 Mar. 2025.

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