How to Use shofar in a Sentence

shofar

noun
Definition of shofarnext
  • 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 | [email protected], 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 | [email protected], al, 15 Sep. 2023

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