hallowing

Example Sentences

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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

Philip looks at the stranger's dissipated eyes, and despite the apparent innocence which the hallowing presence of a guileless ice-cream will temporarily shed over Lothario himself, sees the general demoralisation that has set in.

From When the Birds Begin to Sing by Piffard, Harold

Dropping on their knees, and covering their faces, they joined her “Amens” with hushed voices, and into their susceptible hearts the hallowing influence of the religious festival found ready entrance.

From Miss Ashton's New Pupil A School Girl's Story by Robbins, Mrs. S. S.