Example sentences for: syne

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

  • Where better to sing your year-end rendition of “Auld Lang Syne”?

  • Queen Elizabeth II, who had been criticized for not crossing her arms to hold hands with her husband Prince Philip and Prime Minister Tony Blair for the singing of "Auld Lang Syne" in the Millennium Dome, was vindicated Monday by the tabloid Daily Mirror , which said that arms are not supposed to be linked until the last verse of Robert Burns' poem, which starts "And there's a hand, my trusty fere [friend]."

  • When a baseball player is removed by the manager, the organist plays “Auld Lang Syne.”

  • Of course, not all Scotticisms have been excised, and words like auld, land , and syne are probably still to be found in many dictionaries, but only because they are frequent.


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