What is "hosannah"

Usage examples of "hosannah".

Choir look on, singing an angelic hosannah, and you just about have my impression of an Attenborough film biography.

He had visions of himself at the head of important committees, and you can feel his dreams of medals and banquets and the hosannahs of multitudes.

For this day, this Easter Sunday, while we sing hosannah that the Christ Jesus has risen from the tomb, we can also praise the Lord because Satan's chief emissary on this earth&mdash.

Apart from his memory and a couple of clippings, it would be all that remained of a spent career that had blossomed and then peaked in the big leagues far too long after the best years were gone, but which brought with the peaking the promise that some belated and overdue glory was possible, that somewhere there was a hosannah to be cried in the name of Francis Phelan, one of the best sonsabitches ever to kick a toe into third base.