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alleluia

[al-uh-loo-yuh] / ˌæl əˈlu jə /


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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

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

It was one great alleluia chorus, and the air throbbed with the sweetest music I ever heard.

From A Maid of the Kentucky Hills by Edwin Carlile Litsey

The Spirit of the Lord hath fulfilled all things, alleluia: and that which contains all things hath knowledge of the voice, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia.

From Lord of the World by Robert Hugh Benson

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

When told that the plane was finally arriving at the gate, the crowd broke into applause and alleluias.

From Time Magazine Archive

On the Saturday preceding Septuagesima two alleluias are added to the Benedicamus and Deo Gratias, to intimate that the period of rejoicing in the Saviour's birth has passed.

From The Divine Office by Edward J. Quigley


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