hallow
Example Sentences
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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
The “I don’t know why” response rings hallow.
From Washington Times • Mar. 8, 2016
For a self-proclaimed straight shooter, Rousey rang hallow during fight week when she said on a pre-bout conference call with media that if fans wanted another bout with Tate so did she.
From The Guardian • Aug. 2, 2015
Abraham Lincoln stated it succinctly at Gettysburg with his series of negatives: “We can not dedicate, we can not consecrate, we can not hallow this ground.”
From Washington Post • May 24, 2015
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
Vocabulary lists containing hallow
The Grim Reader: Wicked Words of Grave Importance for Halloween
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Abraham Lincoln's "Gettysburg Address" (1863)
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Othello
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