Sentence examples for hymn ring from inspiring English sources

After the singing of the opening hymn, "Ring the Bells of Heaven," and the announcement that an engaged couple was now registered at Wal-Mart, the preacher read aloud a proclamation from Gov. Bob Riley that declared this to be a "day of prayer" — a day of entreaties to address the ominous threat to the way of life just outside the church's white doors.

Nonetheless, voices singing a rousing hymn rang out from a temporary parish chapel on a Sunday morning.

The queue for papusas, tortillas filled with beans and melted cheese, is growing as hymns ring out from the evangelical church.

It wasn't the last time in the weekend that the Village People's timeless hymn would ring out.

Perhaps Cloudbusting doesn't swoop as giddily as it once did, but by this point Bush's voice has purred, discomfited, flowed like the "sea of honey" she hymns, and rung clear like the church bells she samples.

As another plaintive old English hymn translated into Urdu rang out, the bodies of the dead, including 3-year-old Hinna, the youngest casualty in the Akhtar family, lay before the altar.

She was joined by the Rev. Michael Jemison for the hymn "Precious Memories," and sang rings around him.

The words rang like a hymn across the Ngong hills, echoing through the scrubby town, as small children clung to their mothers and joined in the chorus.

But how different is that from a school that rings a bell ahead of hymn singing in assembly, where pupils are obliged to wear caps or boaters, where the school charity is Christian Aid? "It is vital that we make this distinction between religion on the one hand, and political ideology on the other.

As the worship band broke into strains of a mellow hymn, a stream of women approached each of the volunteers ringing the stage, praying in her embrace or sobbing against her shoulder.

This hymn of inclusion repeated itself in King's prophecy of a nation ringing the chimes of freedom together — "Let freedom ring!" — from the snowcapped Rockies, from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire, even from every molehill in Mississippi.