unhallowed

Example Sentences

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Everything inside was urbs, city space consecrated by priests who interpreted the will of the gods; everything outside was ager — unhallowed open territory.

From New York Times • May 1, 2023

To thee we bow, O Holy Earth Beloved of God the Savior: Forgive, we pray, The touch of our unhallowed feet.

From Time Magazine Archive

Even at that time the press had begun to refer to him as "Reggie" and to point with horror to his unhallowed pleasures.

From Time Magazine Archive

Bounds had been set to this unhallowed purgatory.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

She said, “There’s rules for those in graveyards, but not for those as was buried in unhallowed ground. Nobody tells me what to do, or where to go.”

From "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman