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But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate — we cannot consecrate — we cannot hallow — this ground.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 2, 2018

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

Rarely does he wield it with power — instead, his soft hallow scrape is marked by flexibility and candor.

From New York Times ● Apr. 20, 2015

But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate... we cannot consecrate ... we cannot hallow this ground.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith

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

What a divine good it has accomplished, and continues to accomplish, and what a pure glory hallows its founder's name!

From Shakespeare's England by William Winter

There is nothing that hallows my mind, meseems, Like the night with its moon and its stars above; 'Tis a mystical lily whose golden gleams Fulfill my being with love.

From A Voice on the Wind and Other Poems by Madison Julius Cawein

It is not in them, surely, that we are to seek for the mysterious charm that hallows ancient objects and the historical antiquities of the world.

From Shakespeare's England by William Winter

But Ambrose thought of the Great Mountain, of the secret valleys, of the sanctuaries and hallows of the saints, of the rich carven work of lonely churches hidden amongst the hills and woods.

From The Secret Glory by Arthur Machen

LONDON—The Bayeux Tapestry, Britain’s most hallowed piece of cloth, is back in England for the first time in about 1,000 years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

And as he surveyed the scene, he painted the picture of a day when the Trojans were back on top and the Coliseum was hallowed ground once again.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026

Victory on the hallowed Dublin turf would write one final fairytale chapter - a chance to bow out as undisputed light-welterweight champion and put the seal on a career that has revolutionised women's sport.

From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026

Three episodes of “The Man Will Burn” have aired with very little interrogation of how well it lives up to its hallowed 10 Principles, one of which is Radical Inclusion.

From Salon ● Jul. 24, 2026

My palms need to feel the heat of a hallowed flame whose blessing I bring to my eyes and forehead.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel

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

And yet," said Oswald, "genuine love has a purifying, hallowing power, which scatters all doubts as the rays of the sun scatter fogs and mists.

From Problematic Characters A Novel by Friedrich Spielhagen

Schools for Maori and English children formed, as before, an essential part of the scheme, and the little chapel with its daily services shed a hallowing influence over the whole.

From A History of the English Church in New Zealand by H. T. (Henry Thomas) Purchas