alleluia
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It’s the school-by-school cancellation for 2020 of on-campus football tailgating, that national art form of runaway merriment mingled with an alleluia of fat grams.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 20, 2020
Eat his Body, drink his Blood, And we'll sing a song of loves: Allelu, allelu, allelu, alleluia!
From Time Magazine Archive
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A band called Forty Days was playing a song titled Alle, alleluia, when Ashbrook was allegedly invited to accept the Lord.
From Time Magazine Archive
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That face swung in the sky; then it sang, it sang with a well-known voice the alleluia of love.
From Yvette by Guy de Maupassant
I shouldn't wonder if the long-skirted alleluia will be shooting up into a bishop; I dare say I may come to kissing his hand.
From The Duel and Other Stories by Constance Garnett
A gospel choir sang alleluias along with the stately hymns; non-Christian religious figures were given roles in the highly Protestant ceremony.
From New York Times ● May 6, 2023
Arts at midday Soprano Mary Shaffran in a program of alleluias and hallelujahs by Bach, Vivaldi, Mozart and some surprises for the audience, including a Hallelujah Chorus sing-along.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 6, 2015
She has a gift for anthems and elegies, with stark poetic images in the verses and hum-along refrains of tura-luras and alleluias.
From Time Magazine Archive
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When told that the plane was finally arriving at the gate, the crowd broke into applause and alleluias.
From Time Magazine Archive
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By way of answer, she heard the low hum of the sewing machine, and the alleluias of the dressmaker, singing as though she were in church.
From Autumn by Robert Nathan