Example sentences for: hebrew

How can you use “hebrew” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • That's just part of the "remarkable transformation" going on at Stephen Wise, including more Hebrew in the service, more singing and chanting by the congregants, and a greater interest in religious education.

  • Borrowings from other languages frequently undergo sea changes, but when they are complicated by the tendency of colloquial Hebrew to abbreviate, the results are frequently weird and wonderful.

  • We characterize unintelligible speech by saying, “That's Greek to me,” the Russians and Rumanians by “That's Chinese to me,” the French by “That's Hebrew to me,” the Germans by “That's Spanish to me,” and the Poles by “I'm listening to a Turkish sermon.”

  • Yet in the Genesis text--unlike in control texts such as a Hebrew translation of War and Peace --the rabbis appeared on average closer to their own dates than to the others'.

  • Yitzhak Shichor, a Hebrew University expert on Israel-China relations, told the paper that the Chinese statement was probably a result of pressure from the Clinton administration.


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