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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

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

But, Ian, no one that has been 'called by name' can ever forget the voice that called him; it haunts and hallows life forevermore.

From Playing With Fire by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston

We know, now, what the charm was that made them precious, for we know that “The painted vellum hallows not the prayer, Nor ivory and gold the crucifix.”

From Belford's Magazine, Volume II, No. 8, January, 1889 by Various

The dearest boon from Heaven above, Is bliss which brightly hallows home, ’Tis sunlight to the world of love, And life’s pure wine without its foam.

From Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World by Anonymous

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 Rauschenbusch, Walter

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

From Salon ● Jul. 1, 2026

Outside the Azteca Stadium on Friday for the opening match against South Africa, fans quoted a range of figures they'd paid for one of the hallowed tickets.

From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2026

The cemetery across the Potomac River from Washington, where hundreds of thousands of American veterans are buried, is considered one of the most hallowed sites in the country.

From Barron's ● May 21, 2026

To adapt a hallowed and revered work of this scope, across decades and generations, brimming with magical realism, was, of course, daunting for the showrunners.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2026

He must have asked the obvious question, and that was when she broke the hallowed rule.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

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

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 6, 2018

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

How doth death speak of our beloved When it has laid them low, When it has set its hallowing touch On speechless lip and brow?

From Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul by Mudge, James

But there was not an attraction lost; rather was every charm ripened and perfected by the hallowing touches of growth and development.

From Joscelyn Cheshire A Story of Revolutionary Days in the Carolinas by Kennedy, Sara Beaumont