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

And what a charming picture he gives us of the peaceful, hallowing influences about him in that quiet old parsonage!

From Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes by Brown, E. E.

The hallowing influence of “The Great Awakening” thus started, spread to other communities and eventually throughout the state and into northwestern Tennessee.

From Voices; Birth-Marks; The Man and the Elephant by Holt, Mathew Joseph