How to Use hymn in a Sentence

hymn

noun
  • Their hymn keeps time via a full-body rhythm.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 26 Dec. 2025
  • The hymn itself is nine lines long.
    — Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 18 May 2026
  • But please, lots of rousing hymns.
    — Janine Henni, PEOPLE, 10 June 2026
  • Many waved Lebanese flags and flowers as hymns rang out.
    — Claudio Lavanga, NBC news, 2 Dec. 2025
  • The Christians were mid-hymn when the mob kicked in the door.
    — New York Times, 23 Dec. 2021
  • Embedded in the show about her life are the hymns that gave her strength.
    — The Indianapolis Star, 5 May 2023
  • A lot of the Shaker hymns are just total bangers.
    — David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 24 Nov. 2025
  • Who else but the supreme artist of hate and fear can find those voters and lure them with his dark hymn?
    — Mark Danner, The New York Review of Books, 1 July 2021
  • Reading it feels like reading a hymn or a poem.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 9 Dec. 2025
  • When his casket shut closed and a hymn began, the room erupted in grief.
    — Lilly Price, Baltimore Sun, 31 May 2022
  • History and messages were shared through field hymns and songs.
    — Taylor Cassidy, Time, 15 Oct. 2025
  • My father began singing a hymn, drowning my voice out.
    — Literary Hub, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Sometimes that battle is filtered through songs that sound like show tunes or gospel hymns.
    — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 2 May 2026
  • But a few Welsh place names have been added, along with Welsh-language hymns.
    — The Week Uk, TheWeek, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Based on an old hymn, the song since become a gospel standard, sung throughout the world.
    — John Blake, CNN, 19 June 2022
  • Then, women in the crowd began singing a haunting hymn, their words whipped away by the wind.
    — New York Times, 27 Apr. 2022
  • But the motet ends with the calm assurance of a Lutheran hymn.
    — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 4 Oct. 2021
  • The sheet music for the hymn is on Addams' piano.
    — Saige Miller, NPR, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Attendees bowed their head in prayer and sang along to hymns, while posters of Kirk lined the seats.
    — Nbc News, NBC news, 22 Sep. 2025
  • The hymn’s message takes a more poignant meaning following his death.
    — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 24 Oct. 2022
  • One nurse would just hum or begin singing the hymn with me which was very comforting and calming for me.
    — Andrea Wurzburger, PEOPLE.com, 2 Nov. 2021
  • The crowd sang along to familiar hymns, with many raising their hands in praise and swaying to the rhythm.
    — Amanda Castro mandy Taheri peter Aitken, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Sep. 2025
  • The Bishop of London then led the service of prayers and hymns.
    — Simon Perry, Peoplemag, 12 Nov. 2023
  • The title track is a sublime slow-core power ballad, a hymn to beauty in a world of chaos.
    — Jon Dolan, Rolling Stone, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Confidence in God as ever-present Love sings through the ages in this hymn.
    — Kit Cornell Kurtz, Christian Science Monitor, 1 July 2026
  • The star players seem happy, and everyone appears to be singing from the same hymn sheet.
    — Ben Church, CNN Money, 19 June 2026
  • The hymns are sung in High German, even though almost no one speaks it anymore.
    — Maria Giesbrecht, PEOPLE, 11 May 2026
  • The first was a hymn of support for Winnipeg’s public libraries.
    — Hazlitt, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Shoulders slumped, the family joined the crowd, who silently clapped and then chanted a hymn.
    — Clara Migoya, The Arizona Republic, 26 Sep. 2021
  • For centuries, spiritual hymns have kept hope alive, even more so for the enslaved.
    — Ukee Washington, CBS News, 19 June 2026

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