hosanna

Example Sentences

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A new era of empowered female competitors, led by basketball players, will continue to demand change far beyond the easy hosannas of better swag, tastier food and all those signs proclaiming March Madness.

From New York Times

American politicians would be singing hosannas if U.S. crime and drug use rates ever fell to the low levels now seen in Portugal.

From New York Times

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer joined with hosannas, proclaiming it “a royal necklace across the bosom of the Queen City.”

From Seattle Times

It is unquestionably petty of me to feel dissed, but one tires of seeing hosannas from the same three New York-based periodicals while The Washington Post is overlooked.

From Washington Post

The last time the landmark Voting Rights Act was reauthorized, in 2006, it was approved by an overwhelming bipartisan majority in the House and unanimously in the Senate, with unctuous hosannas from Republicans.

From Washington Post