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Examples of “Angelus” in a Sentence

3 example sentences showing how to use Angelus, grouped by meaning.

noun A Catholic prayer devotion commemorating the Annunciation, said three times a day.

  • The nuns paused their work to recite the angelus at noon.

noun The bell rung to call worshippers to this prayer.

  • The angelus tolled from the village church tower at six.
  • The yodel in it brought to mind incongruous images, full of holes as a Swiss cheese: among the alpenhorns and cuckoo clocks, cowbells clunked and donged like angeluses gone awry. — Ciaran Carson, Last Night's Fun: A Book About Irish Traditional Music (1998)