Wondering how to use Vespers in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as evensong.
Vespers meaning
- The sixth of the seven canonical hours, an evening prayer service
- A massacre
Synonyms of Vespers
Using Vespers
- The main meaning on this page is: The sixth of the seven canonical hours, an evening prayer service | A massacre
- Useful related words include: evensong, canonical hour.
- In the example corpus, vespers often appears in combinations such as: of vespers, the vespers, vespers on.
Context around Vespers
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 11 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Vespers
- In this selection, "vespers" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, sicilian, solemn, jazz, service, benediction and marked stand out and add context to how "vespers" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include after a vespers service sept and as sunday vespers and daily. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "vespers" sits close to words such as acrimony, aerosmith and akp, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with vespers
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Scroll down for a slideshow of photos from the vespers. (10 words)
The vespers marked the end of the charity’s Courage in Red campaign. (13 words)
Tonight that's the Rugby World Cup, the Treehouse books, Vespers, and Elvis. (13 words)
They’re used by the Church every Dec. 31 as well, when during Vespers at St. Peter’s, the Church thanks God for the graces of the year ending and expresses its trust and hope in him for the one upcoming. (41 words)
On Sunday evening, for the first time since the pandemic took hold, Saint Peter’s relaunched online its decades-old tradition of “ jazz vespers,” in which Stahler’s reading of the liturgy was backed by a bass player and jazz singer. (41 words)
By 1282 the Angevins were weakened by the Sicilian Vespers but held control of the nominal parts of Albania and even recaptured some and held out until 1368 when the kingdom's territory was reduced to a small area in Durrës. (41 words)
We heard on vespers Saturday evening: Are there any lips of earthborn men that can worthily extol the Hierarch? (19 words)
Example sentences (20)
The choral society will present Fauré’s much-loved Requiem alongside Mozart’s Solemn Vespers on Saturday, May 13, at St Mary's Church.
They’re used by the Church every Dec. 31 as well, when during Vespers at St. Peter’s, the Church thanks God for the graces of the year ending and expresses its trust and hope in him for the one upcoming.
Bishop Kumordji, bishop of the Diocese of Keta-Akatsi, shared that story with participants after a Vespers service Sept. 1 at St. Anthony Church in Davenport that opened the month-long, worldwide celebration of the Season of Creation.
Docked at the edge of the city’s famous French Quarter, the Most Blessed Sacrament was brought to St. Louis Cathedral for vespers, Benediction and Mass of the Assumption celebrated by Archbishop Gregory M. Aymond.
On Sunday evening, for the first time since the pandemic took hold, Saint Peter’s relaunched online its decades-old tradition of “ jazz vespers,” in which Stahler’s reading of the liturgy was backed by a bass player and jazz singer.
Archbishop Makarios of Australia presided over the Vespers Service at the Church of the Transfiguration of Our Lord in Tallinn.
I proposed to Louise on a cold and misty evening in the garden of a Benedictine abbey in the middle of France after we had attended vespers.
The vespers marked the end of the charity’s Courage in Red campaign.
Tonight that's the Rugby World Cup, the Treehouse books, Vespers, and Elvis.
We heard on vespers Saturday evening: Are there any lips of earthborn men that can worthily extol the Hierarch?
In the article in question, Tayali accused Hichilema of sponsoring the University of Zambia riot which resulted in the death of Vespers Shimunzhila, a 4th year student.
Scroll down for a slideshow of photos from the vespers.
Some people confess that the sound of vespers in women’s religious monastery gave them a refreshing jolt.
After the hour of vespers, between six and seven o'clock a fever appeared and remained permanently.
A large revolt on Sicily known as the Sicilian Vespers followed these attacks, that saw the Peninsula separating into the Kingdom of Naples.
Among his compositions written for the chapel were two complete sets of vespers, many graduals, offertories, and four orchestral masses.
Anyone who wishes to receive Holy Communion at Divine Liturgy on Sunday morning is required to attend Vespers the night before (see Eucharistic discipline ).
At the hour of vespers after Gamboa had given him Extreme Unction, he died.
By 1282 the Angevins were weakened by the Sicilian Vespers but held control of the nominal parts of Albania and even recaptured some and held out until 1368 when the kingdom's territory was reduced to a small area in Durrës.
Challoner translated the entirety of the Lady Office into English, as well as Sunday Vespers and daily Compline.
Common combinations with vespers
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- of vespers 7×
- the vespers 6×
- vespers on 5×
- at vespers 5×
- sicilian vespers 5×
- vespers service 4×
- vespers in 4×
- vespers and 3×
- and vespers 3×
- with vespers 3×