hymn

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

Caedmon then miraculously composed the hymn, producing a carefully crafted poem praising God for creating the world.

From Science Daily ● May 17, 2026

An uplifting hymn to the great outdoors, it has shades of Griff and Sigrid in its eco-friendly pop.

From BBC ● May 8, 2026

I opened the hymn book and played two of my favorites, “How Great Thou Art” and “In the Garden.”

From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien

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

Throughout the process, they "fellowshipped, sang hymns, and prayed until most of them were released," it added.

From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2026

That scientist was annoyed that the scraps of paper he used to mark hymns for his church choir would fall out by Sunday.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 4, 2026

He said traditional hymns will be sung by the church's Filipino community.

From BBC ● Jan. 16, 2026

Stella slipped into her own seat, next to the upright piano that Mrs. Grayson plinked out hymns and folk songs and ballads on.

From "Stella by Starlight" by Sharon M. Draper

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

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

Tonight, Ralf Hütter's music-workers play Trans-Europe Express, an album that hymned our continent's speedy rail service.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 10, 2013

I meet him in the train, and the other day I hymned him.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, February 23, 1916 by Sir Owen Seaman

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

It’s a two-hander, also featuring Zach Wyatt, appropriately exploring isolation and also hymning the wisdom of Walt Whitman.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 23, 2020

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

Happy all, all hymning, Going through the corn.

From The Nursery, No. 106, October, 1875. Vol. XVIII. A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers by Various