Example sentences for: hymn

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

  • In appreciation of your generosity, I've enclosed a special bookmark printed with John Newton's familiar hymn, "Amazing Grace."

  • Miller opens the show with a 15 minute hymn to Las Vegas.

  • It offers a case in point from one of the 17 volumes of The Lives of the Saints , a massive work written between 1872 and 1889 by Sabine Baring-Gould (1834-1924), the English clergyman who is best remembered as the author of the hymn, “Onward, Christian Soldiers.”

  • To a cheesy fashion spread featuring Mick Jagger's daughter, the NYT Magazine appends a tacky postscript: a hymn to the Rolling Stones' fashion sense from designer Tommy Hilfiger, who just happens to be the sponsor of the band's current tour.

  • This is the same mechanism as is operative in the famous case of the child who heard the hymn “Gladly the cross I'd bear’ and thought the adults were singing about “Gladly, the cross-eyed bear’.


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