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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

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

Rarely does he wield it with power — instead, his soft hallow scrape is marked by flexibility and candor.

From New York Times ● Apr. 20, 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

How deeply did I then feel in my heart, the presence of that Great Spirit which broods over and hallows all it has given to the eye of man to scan!

From Daisy Burns (Volume 2) by Julia Kavanagh

Dr. Elisha Cullen Dick rests in the Friends burial ground in an unmarked grave, but his spirit hallows several houses in Alexandria.

From Seaport in Virginia George Washington's Alexandria by Gay Montague Moore

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

Those brilliant gems are being added to other hallows, too.

From The Demands of Rome Her Own Story of Thirty-One Years as a Sister of Charity in the Order of the Sisters of Charity of Providence of the Roman Catholic Church by Elizabeth Schoffen

Victory on the hallowed Dublin turf would write one final fairytale chapter - a chance to bow out as undisputed light-welterweight champion and put the seal on a career that has revolutionised women's sport.

From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026

But none of them match this show’s sense of place – not even the hallowed “Frasier.”

From Salon ● Jul. 1, 2026

Every day he can be seen flying above Centre Court -- but only by the eagle-eyed who arrive between 4:00 am and 9:00 am before the public is admitted to the hallowed grounds.

From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026

Serena has 14 titles on the hallowed grass court — six in doubles, one mixed doubles and seven in singles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026

It seemed too good to be true, an entry into a hallowed American kingdom.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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

The Mother of Jesus exercises throughout the Christian commonwealth that hallowing influence which a good mother wields over the Christian family.

From The Faith of Our Fathers by James Gibbons

Yet these hallowing protestations have not saved him!

From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Isaac Disraeli