hallowed
Example Sentences
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Turkey has never tipped into full-on autocracy because electoral politics retain a hallowed place in the national identity, one revered by Mr. Erdogan himself.
From New York Times
OUR Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name; thy kingdom come; thy will be done; on earth as it is in heaven.
From BBC
Bucky referred to the Hotel as being hallowed ground and he educated visitors and locals alike about the Hotel's history from his pulpit: behind the bar of his Birdcage Lounge where he was bartender extraordinaire.
From Salon
As the couple sashayed onto the hallowed stage, Goodman heard great bellows from the audience.
From BBC
“The bourgeois clap-trap about the family and education, about the hallowed co-relation of parents and child, becomes all the more disgusting, the more, by the action of modern industry,” they went on.
From Washington Times
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