PSALM in a Sentence

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 Meanings and Examples of PSALM
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
psalm
 n.  sacred song; poetical composition for use in the praise or worship of God
Classic Sentence:
1  Within sounded a psalm; a coffin, decked with flowers, was borne forth.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
Context  Highlight   In THE RED SHOES
2  And he carved out little wooden feet for her, and crutches, taught her the psalm criminals always sing; and she kissed the hand which had wielded the axe, and went over the heath.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
Context  Highlight   In THE RED SHOES
3  The boy drew his chubby face down to a formidable length, and commenced toning a psalm tune through his nose, with imperturbable gravity.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
4  But on Saturday nights she would frequently sing a psalm, and it was always on a weekday that she read the Bible, that she might be unoppressed with a sense of doing her duty.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 7 Queen of Night
5  He maddened me particularly when he read aloud the psalms to himself behind his partition.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: VIII
6  It is interesting that that is how he has ended: he hires himself out to read the psalms over the dead, and at the same time he kills rats and makes blacking.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: VIII
7  As the psalms of David exceed all other language, so does the psalmody that has been fitted to them by the divines and sages of the land, surpass all vain poetry.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 2
8  The imagery of the psalms of prophecy soothed his barren pride.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
Example Sentence:
1  You can find this psalm in the Bible.