hymn

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

Perhaps the organizers thought the crowd wouldn’t dare boo during a patriotic hymn.

From Salon ● Jun. 11, 2026

At four years old, Platner said, he knew all the words of the Marine Corps hymn.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 6, 2026

When the hymn was over, the waiters brought coffee and Bull rapped with his gavel once again and announced, “The smoking lamp is lighted.”

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

Through subtle harmonic shifts on “Crepuscule With Nellie,” perhaps Monk’s loveliest melody, he accentuates the song’s inherent connection to blues and church hymns.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

"The gospel music we grew up on was hymns and traditional music," says Rutendo.

From BBC ● Mar. 6, 2026

Some of the hymns and liturgy were the same as those sung by Anglicans around the world, but there were also differences, like the upbeat worship music that had the congregation dancing in the pews.

From BBC ● Mar. 2, 2026

Protesters, some wearing clerical stoles draped over their shoulders, knelt while singing hymns and reciting the Lord’s Prayer in frigid conditions before being handcuffed and led away, video showed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026

Actually, it wasn’t “Auld Lang Syne” they’d sung, the night the Titanic went down, but hymns.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

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

A beauty spot hymned by the Romantics and the Victorians was blown apart and half of it reduced to rubble which was loaded on to ships and carted off to Dagenham to make Ford cars.

From The Guardian ● May 23, 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

This is Sally as a flaming flapper, the kind hymned by F. Scott Fitzgerald and embodied by the young Joan Crawford in silent movies.

From New York Times ● Dec. 4, 2014

First, Margaret, the eldest, now regnant in France; then Alianora, the second and most beautiful of these daughters, whom troubadours hymned as La Belle.

From Chivalry by Elizabeth Shippen Green Elliott

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

"The soul lives its best hours when surrounded by melody, and is drawn towards its home, Paradise, dreaming of its hymning seraphs who adore with ecstasies that can find utterance only in song."

From Music and Some Highly Musical People by James M. Trotter