hallowed

Example Sentences

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By the turn of the millennium, the lucha scene in Los Angeles was on the ropes and the hallowed Olympic was on its way to becoming a church.

From Los Angeles Times

We know baseball has its hallowed distances — 90 feet and 60 feet, 6 inches — but they don’t have to stay that way forever, especially not with younger audiences eager for more action.

From Seattle Times

“And today, GM3 Herman Schmidt takes his rightful place here on these hallowed grounds.”

From Washington Post

At least at the level of language, then, we need to recover the eighteenth-century context of things and not read back into those years the hallowed meanings they would acquire over the next century.

From Literature

Baba had been the one to teach him and Kamau those hallowed words when they were small.

From Literature