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“No building will ever achieve the eloquence of this void in speaking of the event. We do not hallow this ground simply by filling it with buildings.”

From Washington Post ● Mar. 30, 2020

Happily for America, we rely on lessons of experience where we hallow and raise not men but ideas and virtues.

From Time ● Sep. 16, 2016

Jerry Chappell, 55, lives in a small hallow in the hills, an hour away from the Kingsport clinic where he gets his prescription.

From The Guardian ● May 9, 2016

The “I don’t know why” response rings hallow.

From Washington Times ● Mar. 8, 2016

For it led up on to the mountain to a high hallow where only the kings had been wont to go.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien

He came on a meadow between two streams where the flower called white hallows grew thick, and as these blossoms are rare and prized by healers, he came back again next day.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin

It hallows at the baptismal font the introduction of the infant into the mystical oneness of the children of Christ.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 5, November, 1863 by Various

When the twilight silvers Every nodding flower, And the new moon hallows The first evening hour, Is it not her footfall Down the garden walks, Where the drowsy blossoms Slumber on their stalks?

From Later Poems by Bliss Carman

Yet a Divine sanction, such as rests upon the parental rule of fallible human creatures, hallows also national law.

From The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus by G. A. Chadwick

Edmund Burke's house, also in Gerrard Street, is a beer-shop; but his memory hallows the place, and an inscription upon it proudly announces that here he lived.

From Shakespeare's England by William Winter

“I’m really excited to wear the sacred bratty curls and the hallowed hoop skirt,” Alaska said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026

Now, he says there's tangible excitement about the venue's future and stars should feel there is as much "hallowed turf" here than over in the Olympic Park.

From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026

But none of them match this show’s sense of place – not even the hallowed “Frasier.”

From Salon ● Jul. 1, 2026

Every day he can be seen flying above Centre Court -- but only by the eagle-eyed who arrive between 4:00 am and 9:00 am before the public is admitted to the hallowed grounds.

From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026

Momma, you would not believe the camaraderie and esprit de corps in these hallowed halls.

From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland

Now “Becoming” is the hallowing of her second coming: as an unprecedented, potentially billion-dollar American brand.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 6, 2018

The Central Committee's hallowing of that 1976 ceremony was a subtle way for Teng to humiliate his old enemies.

From Time Magazine Archive

At St. Louis they drove across the prairie through flowering and fragrant shrubs, past orchards bending and breaking with loads of fruit, where boys rode by on calico ponies "hallowing & laughing."

From Time Magazine Archive

Not otherwise, truly, is it with sweet and gentle Stratford herself, where peace and beauty and the most hallowed and hallowing of poetic associations garner up, forever and forever, the hearts of all mankind.

From Shakespeare's England by William Winter

The softening and hallowing influence of death reveals the nobleness and sweetness of those who are gone.

From The Expositor's Bible: Colossians and Philemon by Alexander Maclaren