Example sentences for: hymns

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

  • Early events surrounding the Indo-Aryans can be deduced from the later writings of the Rig-Veda (priestly hymns), Puranas (ancient tales of kings and gods), and the epic poems of the Mahabharata and Ramayana.

  • In recent congressional testimony, Alexander began her litany of the NEA's good works with "important folk arts projects like the one sponsored by the Alabama Folklife Association to publish and document primitive Baptist hymns."

  • "The use of 'Baby I'm-a Want You' in the regular rotation of morning hymns."

  • In three volumes-- Ballads , Social Music , and Songs --he gathered blues, gospel hymns, murder narratives, reels and jigs, Cajun tunes, sermons, and ancient Child ballads transmuted from their British origins by centuries in the mountains and valleys of America.

  • Folklorists of the 1930s and 1940s were still able to collect some of these ancient hymns from elderly people who learned them from their parents in the nineteenth century.


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