hallow

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

Jerry Chappell, 55, lives in a small hallow in the hills, an hour away from the Kingsport clinic where he gets his prescription.

From The Guardian ● May 9, 2016

The “I don’t know why” response rings hallow.

From Washington Times ● Mar. 8, 2016

Abraham Lincoln stated it succinctly at Gettysburg with his series of negatives: “We can not dedicate, we can not consecrate, we can not hallow this ground.”

From Washington Post ● May 24, 2015

I spell hallow, which is a great word but also opens up a triple-word-score spot for her.

From "Will Grayson, Will Grayson" by John Green and David Levithan

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

Mr. Whittier, like another Wordsworth, glorifies the scenes of common life, and hallows the landscapes of his New England homes.

From John Greenleaf Whittier His Life, Genius, and Writings by W. Sloane Kennedy

Mercy among the virtues is like the moon among the stars,—not so sparkling and vivid as many, but dispensing a calm radiance that hallows the whole.

From Pearls of Thought by Maturin Murray Ballou

"Go," said I, "simple ones, and break your fallows, Crush autumn apples in the cider press, Law, gaffer Stiles, thy humble name still hallows, Contracted to J. S."

From Briefless Ballads and Legal Lyrics Second Series by James Williams

This is the voice of the unhesitating praise that embraces and hallows the globe.”

From Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors by James Freeman Clarke

As in Shikoku, locals welcomed us as we entered their small towns to engage in hallowed rituals.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026

Three episodes of “The Man Will Burn” have aired with very little interrogation of how well it lives up to its hallowed 10 Principles, one of which is Radical Inclusion.

From Salon ● Jul. 24, 2026

But the biggest honor that Peluso is looking forward to is playing the hallowed stage of the Hollywood Bowl.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026

Now, he says there's tangible excitement about the venue's future and stars should feel there is as much "hallowed turf" here than over in the Olympic Park.

From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026

If you had a gripe, you settled it outside, where you didn’t risk interrupting the hallowed practice of separating pigeons from their money.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo

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

It is difficult to understand how any person reared amid such scenes and relics could ever cast away their hallowing influence.

From Shakespeare's England by William Winter

In nothing did Douglas show greater genius than in hallowing his doctrine of popular sovereignty.

From Lincoln, the Politician by T. Aaron Levy