How to Use shofar in a Sentence

shofar

noun

• The services end with closing prayers and well as the blowing of the shofar, a horn.
  — Alesandra Dubin, Good Housekeeping, 22 Aug. 2023
• At the end of the services, a shofar or ram's horn is blown to signal the end of Yom Kippur.
  — Ashley May, USA TODAY, 29 Sep. 2017
• Rosh Hashanah begins with the blowing of a shofar, or ram’s horn.
  — al, 6 Sep. 2021
• Just as the Supreme Court has nine members, one of the shofar blasts, teruah, has nine short notes.
  — Philissa Cramer, sun-sentinel.com, 22 Sep. 2020
• The haunting call of the shofar, or ram’s horn, summons Jews to judgment.
  — Jonathan Sacks, WSJ, 17 Sep. 2020
• The blowing of a ram’s horn, or shofar, was done outdoors at the gardens to signal the new year.
  — al, 28 Sep. 2020
• The day ends with again blowing the shofar, symbolizing the closing of the Book of Life.
  — Emily Vanschmus, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Sep. 2021
• The shofar is blown during Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.
  — Susan Dunne, Hartford Courant, 24 Sep. 2022
• The sounding of the shofar, a ram's horn, is the central observance of the holiday.
  — Brieanna J. Frank, The Arizona Republic, 18 Sep. 2020
• Randy Rubin blows a shofar in Temple Aaron in Trinidad last week.
  — Jesse Paul, The Denver Post, 2 Feb. 2017
• Also called the Feast of the Trumpets, a ram’s horn, called the shofar, is blown several times during the reading of the Torah.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Sep. 2019
• The shofar will also be blown in synagogue at the end of Yom Kippur.
  — Sherry Greenfield, Baltimore Sun, 4 Oct. 2022
• The shofar, a horn, is blown during the services, and songs are sung by the congregation.
  — Kelsey Hurwitz, Woman's Day, 17 July 2020
• Rabbis have also interpreted the loud blast of the shofar as a wake-up call for the new year.
  — Marina Pitofsky, USA TODAY, 2 Sep. 2021
• The shofar will be blown throughout the High Holy Days, Glickman said, and members who want the shofar to come to their house can sign up.
  — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 18 Sep. 2020
• During Rosh Hashanah, when the shofar – the ram’s horn – had to be blown to inaugurate the new year, no one knew what sound to produce.
  — Peter Rubin, Longreads, 27 Apr. 2022
• Weiss said the shofar walk harks back to an ancient tradition of going out in the streets and sounding the shofar.
  — Karie Angell Luc, Chicago Tribune, 26 Sep. 2022
• These three different messages of kol are echoed in the mitzvah of shofar.
  — Rabbi Avi Weiss, sun-sentinel.com, 23 Sep. 2019
• In many synagogues, there will be a blowing of a ram’s horn, or shofar, today to signal the new year.
  — Greg Garrison | [e-mail], al, 25 Sep. 2022
• Shofar blasts: During the days leading up to Rosh Hashanah, a daily shofar blast will take place.
  — Atlanta Life, ajc, 1 Sep. 2017
• Is the shofar — the horn whose blasts punctuate the holy days — a potential vector of disease?
  — Philissa Cramer, sun-sentinel.com, 24 Aug. 2021
• One adjunct tap danced; another blew a shofar; a third had a union sign pinned to their baby’s pram.
  — Alissa Quart, The New Republic, 29 Nov. 2022
• There's also the traditional blowing of the shofar, a curved ram's horn.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 4 Oct. 2022
• An attendee began the ceremonies by blasting a shofar, the trumpet made out of a ram’s horn.
  — USA Today, 10 Dec. 2020
• Standing on one of the pillars that marked the entrance to Central Park, a white, bearded man wearing a safety vest blew a shofar to cheers.
  — Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 4 June 2020
• One of the most important ways people celebrate Rosh Hashanah is by blowing a horn made out of a ram's horn, called a shofar.
  — Joshua Eaton, Teen Vogue, 10 Sep. 2018
• To signify the end of Yom Kippur, the shofar is blown in celebration.
  — Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 3 Oct. 2022
• The shofar is also sounded at the end of the much more solemn Yom Kippur, the holiday of repentance, 10 days after Rosh Hashanah.
  — George Castle, chicagotribune.com, 3 Sep. 2019
• Among those tasked to blow the shofar was Stanley Cohn of Skokie, who organized the shofar blowers for the occasion.
  — Karie Angell Luc, Chicago Tribune, 26 Sep. 2022
• According to McNair, churches who don’t have bell towers were going to use hand bells in front of the church to mark the moment of the bombing and a Jewish temple will blow the shofar.
  — Williesha Morris | [e-mail], al, 15 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 19 Nov 2024