hymn

Ms. Perry’s parents visit and all together they sing a hymn.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

If you want to find an observer singing from the same hymn sheet, sooner or later you will hit pay dirt.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026

The crowd listened in silence as the Polynesians, wearing blue fire uniforms, sang a Tahitian hymn in harmony while two of them strummed ukuleles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026

Her last true classic, it was a hymn to the liberating power of the club.

From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026

“It’s a morbid hymn, for funerals. No one plays a funeral hymn loud unless they want to wake the dead.”

From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt

At a municipal center, a choir of about a hundred faithful practices hymns for the ceremony.

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026

The evangelist Billy Graham solidified his appeal by supplanting hymns with the style of music to which teens and young adults flocked; Broadway even chimed in with the rock opera “Jesus Christ Superstar.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 19, 2026

That scientist was annoyed that the scraps of paper he used to mark hymns for his church choir would fall out by Sunday.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 4, 2026

While the service is rooted in historical significance, Dame Sarah has had a hand in choosing some of the hymns.

From BBC ● Mar. 25, 2026

Then, breviary in hand, one of the female teachers led us in singing hymns and reciting psalms.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane

After living for two years in a small cabin beside Walden Pond, near Concord, Massachusetts, he hymned the results in his classic account Walden, published in 1854.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018

Two of the credited writers, he says, had probably never even been to West Virginia when they hymned the beauty of its valleys and rivers.

From New York Times ● Aug. 16, 2017

That has changed, or has seemed to change, recently, with Marine taking on a group of surreptitious haute-fonctionnaire “Horaces”—the name is a reference to the great if obsequious Roman poet who hymned the emperor Augustus.

From The New Yorker ● Mar. 30, 2017

And it's life as a whole lot that ends up getting hymned, not the path through it on which the film chooses to bestow its particular seal of approval.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 11, 2011

It is as if we suddenly saw a princess come out upon her castle-walls, and hymned that fair emergence, which to herself is nothing.

From Browning's Heroines by Maxwell Armfield

Holst leaves the listener in the far removes of outer space, with Neptune being a study in musical mysticism, highlighted by a hidden hymning women’s chorus, as if heard from a mysterious distance.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2023

Bush went beyond hymning the “thousand points of light” to oversee the establishment of the Commission on National and Community Service.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 3, 2018

It’s a useful rejoinder to evangelists hymning the inevitable progress of “tech,” and gurus divining what technology “wants.”

From Slate ● Jun. 1, 2015

We read him for his warm and vast-as-America hymning, and her for crabbed and cryptic messages left in a poetic bottle.

From New York Times ● Dec. 19, 2011

Our peasant long was bred    Affliction’s meagre child, Yet gratefully resigned,    Loud hymning praises, smiled,       And like a tower          He stood unmoved,       Supported by          The God he loved.

From Cottage Poems by Patrick Brontë