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

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

They praised its hallowing force with a most serious mien, as if they had not the faintest notion of what it meant.

From The Song of Songs by Sudermann, Hermann

In “Poor Robin’s Almanack” for August, 1676, we read: “Hoacky is brought home with hallowing, Boys with plumb-cake the cart following.”

From Folk-lore of Shakespeare by Thiselton-Dyer, Thomas Firminger