HALLOWED in a Sentence

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 Meanings and Examples of HALLOWED
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hallowed
 a.  associated with a divine power; made holy; worthy of religious veneration
Classic Sentence:
1  Standing, for the most part, on the hallowed precincts of the quarter-deck, they were careful not to speak or rustle their feet.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 43. Hark!
2  Every morning he hallowed himself anew in the presence of some holy image or mystery.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
3  Yet we urge it on, mindless and infatuate, and plant the ill-ominous thing in our hallowed citadel.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK SECOND
4  With us there is great justice, because that war is just which is necessary, and arms are hallowed when there is no other hope but in them.
The Prince By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI — AN EXHORTATION TO LIBERATE ITALY FROM THE ...
Example Sentence:
1  What was to be carried back to the ship and laid in hallowed ground in Scotland?
2  Andy Murray made it possible Sunday, winning his country's hallowed tennis tournament to become the first British man in 77 years to raise the trophy at the All England Club.
3  In retrospect it is clear to me that my arrival at Salomon marked the beginning of the end of that hallowed institution.
4  Sacred memories hallow this area over a long time.