How to Use hymnal in a Sentence
hymnal
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Surely Dorsey and his Dream Team are all on the same page of the hymnal on that, right?
—Bud Shaw, cleveland.com, 16 Feb. 2018
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Her husband was not the only one prone to skipping a chapter in the hymnal.
—Anna Russel, The New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2021
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While sitting with his church choir, Mr. Fry had trouble finding the right pages in a hymnal.
—James R. Hagerty, WSJ, 14 May 2021
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Selecting a hymnal can be a source of great conflict within the church.
—Dominic Pino, National Review, 1 Aug. 2021
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Most restaurant chicken is still pink in the thigh, while the breast is cooked to the consistency of a Baptist hymnal.
—Southern Living, 1 May 2017
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The small fire at the Episcopal church in Pasadena was lit in the sanctuary, with pews, prayer books and hymnals used as kindling.
—Brittny Mejia, latimes.com, 30 Jan. 2018
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To paraphrase a former Browns head coach, everyone’s singing from the same hymnal.
—Dan Labbe, cleveland, 5 Feb. 2020
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The text by Whittier was taken from a hymnal, but the vocal line was a solemn unison against the piano’s harmonies.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Oct. 2019
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Their hymnals are inscribed with the letters, as is the soaring temple that serves as the headquarters of La Luz del Mundo.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 June 2019
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His speech on Thursday in Warsaw was straight out of the Christian Identity hymnal.
—Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 7 July 2017
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The YouTubers are encouraged to take a hymnal, read about the church’s teachings and enjoy food with other members.
—Michael Williams, Dallas News, 24 July 2023
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Pews upturned, wheelchairs tossed about, hymnals strewn and even a keyboard destroyed.
—Matt Campbell, kansascity.com, 11 June 2017
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Meanwhile, as the tension ratchets, Pierre-Philippe Côté’s score leans on disquieting choral music that sounds like a hymnal for the damned.
—Amy Nicholson, Variety, 20 July 2022
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As the entrance hymn fills the sanctuary, Lambert Nieme is sitting next me, his hymnal open and resting evenly on two steady hands.
—Thomas Farragher, BostonGlobe.com, 1 May 2018
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For non-Christian-church-going people, holding up the hymnal for the other person is a prime sign of care and affection.
—Alice Burton, Vulture, 21 Feb. 2021
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The script by Eggers and Sjón aims for the hymnal straightforwardness of the original sagas, though Kidman's role also challenges some archetypes.
—Darren Franich, EW.com, 10 Mar. 2023
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Students at Duke protested the firings and even had boomboxes play Dolph’s lyrical hymnal.
—Stephen A. Crockett Jr., The Root, 12 May 2018
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The Sign of Peace will not take place; collection baskets should not be passed from person to person; bulletins will not be handed out; hymnals will be removed from pews.
—Sophie Carson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 22 May 2020
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Today, however, as funders and advocacy groups chant from a common hymnal of wokeness, the rules have changed and courage is hard to find.
—Frederick M. Hess, National Review, 25 Nov. 2019
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By now, the blueprint for these set pieces is well understood, even to candidates who don’t exactly sing from the same evangelical hymnal.
—Philip Elliott, Time, 12 July 2023
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The iconic crescendo three minutes in is a staggering and gut-wrenching hymnal of everlasting love.
—Natalie Maher, Harper's BAZAAR, 9 Jan. 2019
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In a clear embrace of their new religious context, the colonists chose to translate the hymnal from its original Hebrew text instead of reprinting an English edition.
—Meilan Solly, Smithsonian, 14 July 2017
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For weeks, the president and his allies have been singing from the conservative hymnal on Obamacare (let’s repeal and replace it), the size of the federal government (let’s shrink it), and taxes (let’s cut them).
—Reihan Salam, Slate Magazine, 12 Apr. 2017
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The bill’s supporters mouth words from the party’s old hymnal, arguing that Reedy Creek distorts the free market by giving Disney unfair advantages.
—Robert Schlesinger, The New Republic, 22 Apr. 2022
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Your organization’s two biggest stars of the last decade, Tulo and Nolan, are essentially singing from the same hymnal now, with both infielders accusing Bridich of being a royal pain in the grass.
—Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 21 Jan. 2020
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He was troubled by the veneration heaped by followers on Garcia, whose initials are inscribed in congregants’ hymnals and shawls.
—Leila Miller, latimes.com, 15 July 2019
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Despite its growth in enrollment and in academic stature, Texas A&M has suffered from periods of discord where the system chancellor, the campus president and the regents didn’t all sing from the same hymnal.
—Andy Staples, SI.com, 28 June 2018
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Dolce said the church was following all of the state's and archdiocese's guidelines, enacted social distancing and sanitizing measures and took out all of its hymnals and put its lyrics on a screen to avoid spreading the coronavirus.
—NBC News, 7 May 2020
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Crucchiola: Everyone is singing hymnals but Sloan (Olivia Munn).
—Jordan Crucchiola and Jason Kehe, WIRED, 15 Dec. 2014
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Gorsuch has always sung loudly from the conservative hymnal.
—Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 9 Feb. 2017
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