Example Sentences

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Holst leaves the listener in the far removes of outer space, with Neptune being a study in musical mysticism, highlighted by a hidden hymning women’s chorus, as if heard from a mysterious distance.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 15, 2023

And the poet and theorist Fred Moten, for his hymning of knowledge’s “undercommons,” its deviant intellectual crosscurrents and flight-paths, “fugitive enlightenment.”

From New York Times • Jan. 20, 2022

Bush went beyond hymning the “thousand points of light” to oversee the establishment of the Commission on National and Community Service.

From Washington Post • Aug. 3, 2018

It’s a useful rejoinder to evangelists hymning the inevitable progress of “tech,” and gurus divining what technology “wants.”

From Slate • Jun. 1, 2015

I think I remember that the saints are said to be crowned with palms and amaranths, and that they are described as perpetually hymning and praising God.

From Consolations in Travel or, the Last Days of a Philosopher by Morley, Henry