How to Use shofar in a Sentence

shofar

noun
  • Using a bull’s horn as a shofar, on the other hand, doesn’t fly.
    — Sarah Pessin, The Conversation, 18 Sep. 2025
  • The services end with closing prayers and well as the blowing of the shofar, a horn.
    — Alesandra Dubin, Good Housekeeping, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Rosh Hashanah begins with the blowing of a shofar, or ram’s horn.
    — al, 6 Sep. 2021
  • These three different messages of kol are echoed in the mitzvah of shofar.
    — Rabbi Avi Weiss, sun-sentinel.com, 23 Sep. 2019
  • The blowing of a ram’s horn, or shofar, was done outdoors at the gardens to signal the new year.
    — al, 28 Sep. 2020
  • The haunting call of the shofar, or ram’s horn, summons Jews to judgment.
    — Jonathan Sacks, WSJ, 17 Sep. 2020
  • One adjunct tap danced; another blew a shofar; a third had a union sign pinned to their baby’s pram.
    — Alissa Quart, The New Republic, 29 Nov. 2022
  • Rabbis have also interpreted the loud blast of the shofar as a wake-up call for the new year.
    — Marina Pitofsky, USA TODAY, 2 Sep. 2021
  • Just as the Supreme Court has nine members, one of the shofar blasts, teruah, has nine short notes.
    — Philissa Cramer, sun-sentinel.com, 22 Sep. 2020
  • The shofar, a horn, is blown during the services, and songs are sung by the congregation.
    — Kelsey Hurwitz, Woman's Day, 17 July 2020
  • In many synagogues, there will be a blowing of a ram’s horn, or shofar, today to signal the new year.
    — Greg Garrison | [email protected], al, 25 Sep. 2022
  • At the end of the services, a shofar or ram's horn is blown to signal the end of Yom Kippur.
    — Ashley May, USA TODAY, 29 Sep. 2017
  • There's also the traditional blowing of the shofar, a curved ram's horn.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 4 Oct. 2022
  • Weiss said the shofar walk harks back to an ancient tradition of going out in the streets and sounding the shofar.
    — Karie Angell Luc, Chicago Tribune, 26 Sep. 2022
  • An attendee began the ceremonies by blasting a shofar, the trumpet made out of a ram’s horn.
    — USA Today, 10 Dec. 2020
  • The shofar will also be blown in synagogue at the end of Yom Kippur.
    — Sherry Greenfield, Baltimore Sun, 4 Oct. 2022
  • Some Jewish communities will blow a shofar, a curved ram’s horn.
    — Victoria E. Freile, Freep.com, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Remy Ohara lifted a long, corkscrewing shofar to her lips and blew a resonant call.
    — Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2023
  • Is the shofar — the horn whose blasts punctuate the holy days — a potential vector of disease?
    — Philissa Cramer, sun-sentinel.com, 24 Aug. 2021
  • Sourcing shofars To make a shofar, a horn is boiled to soften its innards for removal.
    — Sarah Pessin, The Conversation, 18 Sep. 2025
  • The sounding of the shofar, a ram's horn, is the central observance of the holiday.
    — Brieanna J. Frank, The Arizona Republic, 18 Sep. 2020
  • Randy Rubin blows a shofar in Temple Aaron in Trinidad last week.
    — Jesse Paul, The Denver Post, 2 Feb. 2017
  • Several Jewish men blew a shofar, the ram’s horn used on Rosh Hashana.
    — Somini Sengupta, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Sep. 2023
  • The day also involves blowing the shofar, or ram's horn, and extended prayer readings.
    — Lisa Marie Segarra, Time, 20 Sep. 2017
  • One blew the shofar, a ram’s horn used for Jewish religious purposes.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 14 Sep. 2019
  • Synagogues will also blow a shofar, a curved ram's horn, during Rosh Hashanah.
    — Marina Pitofsky, USA TODAY, 2 Sep. 2021
  • Traditionally, a shofar is blown after services each day of the month before the new year.
    — Sophie Carson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 18 Sep. 2020
  • The receptacles were called shofarot, as they were shaped like a shofar, narrow at the top and then broadening.
    — Rabbi Avi Weiss, sun-sentinel.com, 14 Feb. 2022
  • The day ends with again blowing the shofar, symbolizing the closing of the Book of Life.
    — Emily Vanschmus, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Sep. 2021
  • The sounding of the shofar will occur during the celebration.
    — Evan Casey, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 17 Sep. 2020

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