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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

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

Eat his Body, drink his Blood, And we'll sing a song of loves: Allelu, allelu, allelu, alleluia!

From Time Magazine Archive

"Ay, let alleluia be sung in their land."

From Beacon Lights of History, Volume 08 Great Rulers by John Lord

It is the hosanna of the awakening, the alleluia of the germinating seed and the sprouting blade.

From Social Life in the Insect World by Bernard Miall

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

By way of answer, she heard the low hum of the sewing machine, and the alleluias of the dressmaker, singing as though she were in church.

From Autumn by Robert Nathan




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