hallow

Example Sentences

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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

During passage through several thousand years it transformed into hail, hale, health, hallow, holy, whole, and heal, and all of these still move together through our minds.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas