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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

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

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

I spell hallow, which is a great word but also opens up a triple-word-score spot for her.

From "Will Grayson, Will Grayson" by John Green and David Levithan

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

Dr. Elisha Cullen Dick rests in the Friends burial ground in an unmarked grave, but his spirit hallows several houses in Alexandria.

From Seaport in Virginia George Washington's Alexandria by Gay Montague Moore

That gives every man a place in it who works—where is the idler's place in it?—and it hallows all good work with religious glory.

From The Social Principles of Jesus by Walter Rauschenbusch

Happy place which hallows such memories, and holds up such EXAMPLES.

From Homes of American Statesmen With Anecdotical, Personal, and Descriptive Sketches by Various

In making his cheerful case, Mr. Wigglesworth takes some liberties with hallowed texts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 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

At least at the level of language, then, we need to recover the eighteenth-century context of things and not read back into those years the hallowed meanings they would acquire over the next century.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

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

He seems to me a kind of hallowing presence in the family, calling out every one's sympathy and kindness, and pathetically reminding us by his loss of the preciousness of our common mercies.

From Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family by Elizabeth Rundle Charles

Yet even these, through the love we possess of truthful imitations, and the hallowing powers of genius, excite emotions of pleasure.

From Curiosities of Human Nature by Anonymous