hallow

Example Sentences

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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

For it led up on to the mountain to a high hallow where only the kings had been wont to go.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien