How to Use hallowed in a Sentence

hallowed

adjective
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  • The church stands on hallowed ground.
  • The hall, in the shadow of Big Ben, is one of the most hallowed places in British public life.
    — Mark Landler, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2023
  • Jami will set foot on golf's hallowed grounds for the first time.
    — Dennis Manoloff, cleveland.com, 18 Apr. 2018
  • First, there was Ripken's pursuit of one of the most hallowed records in all of sports.
    — Paul Newberry, ajc, 3 Dec. 2021
  • Who wouldn’t want to glimpse or touch such a hallowed place, even for a moment?
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 17 Apr. 2022
  • The hallowed halls of Mario have become, in the hands of fans, shrines to the gods of difficulty.
    — Julie Muncy, WIRED, 10 July 2019
  • This will not be the first time a dirt-track race has taken place on IMS' hallowed grounds.
    — Jim Ayello, Indianapolis Star, 19 June 2018
  • But this was hardly core tech from the hallowed ground of Redmond.
    — Howard Homonoff, Forbes, 15 July 2022
  • Now, even the hallowed halls of U.S. Congress are embracing the trend.
    — Scott MacFarlane, CBS News, 26 July 2023
  • Those battles are being fought in court as well as in the hallowed halls of ivy.
    — Leslie Sanchez, CBS News, 23 May 2018
  • This is hallowed ground for us space nerds and rocket chasers.
    — Trevor Mahlmann, Ars Technica, 6 Mar. 2018
  • What in the world was Jean Imbert doing on such hallowed ground?
    — Cyrill Matter, Town & Country, 8 June 2022
  • The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is gearing up to add some more star power to its hallowed halls.
    — Rachel Desantis, PEOPLE.com, 2 Feb. 2022
  • And while it was just built this year, the new Stafford homestead lies atop hallowed celebrity ground.
    — James McClain, Robb Report, 28 Dec. 2023
  • Because this landscape is hallowed ground of film; this is our set and stage.
    — Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 July 2022
  • Three weeks ago, the Ducks played like a playoff contender on hallowed turf.
    — oregonlive, 3 Oct. 2021
  • For the first time since just after the years started with 2s, there will again be an Earnhardt in the hallowed black No. 3.
    — al, 22 Apr. 2022
  • The night before became a hallowed eve, which is where the name Halloween comes from.
    — Shelby Slade, The Arizona Republic, 17 Oct. 2024
  • The hallowed hall on Bleecker Street begins to come alive as the sound engineer brings up the house lights and sets the stage.
    — Lisa Ellex, SPIN, 3 June 2024
  • My original plan, of course, was to join the hallowed ranks of those who’d served, swung, and raised the trophies above their heads.
    — Corey Seymour, Vogue, 29 Aug. 2019
  • Westminster Hall, in the shadow of Big Ben, is one of the most hallowed places in British public life.
    — Mark Landler, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Sep. 2022
  • The hallowed walls of the new hotel once encompassed the apartment where Mozart lived and wrote The Abduction from the Seraglio.
    — Irene S. Levine, Forbes, 3 Aug. 2022
  • This year, their works won’t hang on hallowed pegboard.
    — Jenna Ross, Star Tribune, 25 Aug. 2020
  • Think cigar box, licorice, tobacco and, of course, the hallowed taste of rancio.
    — Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 4 Sep. 2021
  • Davis came in needing 26 points to break Maravich's hallowed mark that stood for over 50 years.
    — Tom Withers, ajc, 3 Mar. 2023
  • His legacy will always live in the halls of our hallowed Capitol.
    — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 29 Feb. 2024
  • But one of the things that is sad is that those hallowed spaces are also hollow.
    — Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 25 Feb. 2024
  • Not in a photograph that will hang on the hallowed halls of Buckingham Palace for decades to come.
    — Jenny Hollander, Marie Claire, 3 Jan. 2020
  • Adult Kirke lands on her feet, but far from the hallowed streets of the West Village and instead down in Nashville, where she’s worked steadily as a country singer for the past few years.
    — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 30 Jan. 2025
  • The exhibition launched his career, with shows at hallowed galleries such as Ace and Sonnabend in the years afterward.
    — Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 14 Feb. 2025

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