Example sentences for: yom

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

  • Neither I nor any of my friends are ever hungry except for a few hours on Yom Kippur, so I am unable to test Cervantes' proposition.

  • In 1992, Yom Kippur was celebrated here for the first time in 500 years.

  • Also in 1973, Mossad was criticized for failing to predict the surprise Arab attack that began the Yom Kippur War.

  • If credibility were such a fragile commodity, we wouldn't have needed the Reagan buildup after the Russians blinked during the Cuban Missile Crisis, or in 1973 when they made noises about helping the Arabs in the Yom Kippur war and then backed down.

  • While Soutine--unlike Chagall, to whom he is sometimes compared--did not paint stereotypically Jewish subjects, he may have been alluding, with those dangling fowl, to a Yom Kippur rite in which a slaughtered chicken was whirled around a rabbi's head in a ritual of absolution.


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