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
But there was not an attraction lost; rather was every charm ripened and perfected by the hallowing touches of growth and development.
From Joscelyn Cheshire A Story of Revolutionary Days in the Carolinas by Sara Beaumont Kennedy
I perceive also—I perceived, while Tony and the children stood round that picture—that Rosie is still here, in this house, hallowing it a little.
From A Poor Man's House by Stephen Sydney Reynolds
