Example sentences for: hallowed

How can you use “hallowed” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Arlington National Cemetery, "the nation's most hallowed military burial ground ," was born in an act of theft: The U.S. government confiscated it in 1861 from Gen.

  • French critics hate Arnault's "American" business style (profits over politesse) and disregard for fashion history (he puts brash young designers in charge of hallowed clothing lines).

  • The assumption of bad faith on the part of one's rivals is a hallowed tradition of politics, and Flytrap has honored it.

  • Furthermore, they seriously believe their jungles are genuine foreign languages--for example, Chinese--and hallowed by hoary antiquity.

  • But they also don’t seem to mind when the tranquillity of a Zen temple rock garden is shattered by recorded announcements blaring from loudspeakers parroting the information already contained in the leaflets provided at the ticket office; when heavy-metal pop music loudly emanates from the radio of the middle-aged owner of a corner grocery store; and when parks, gardens, and hallowed temples are ringed by garish souvenir shops whose shelves display both the tastefully understated and the hideously kitsch.


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