Hallow in a sentence as a verb

> But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate—we can not consecrate—we can not hallow—this ground.

It's hallow and meaningless; at most, it might fool people before they realize that it's logically inconsistent, but that'd just be lies.

I respect the differences in our opinions, but having to convey your point by adding that line in 2015 make one's argument a bit hallow.

Oh. I see these example: I like my relationships like I like my source, open I like my coffee like I like my war, cold I like my boys like I like my sectors, bad Wow, these feel as hallow and empty as the Shuttle Challenger's hanger.

Forget technical terms; I once heard a particularly bad audiobook narrator refer to 'hallow-tipped bullets'.

Things that make me attractive in one environment make me attractive in another environment as well, compared to putting on a hallow mask temporarily for women.

At the start of this outbreak, people were blaming Africans for eating bushmeat from wetmarkets using less than civil rhetoric, then later scientists traced the source of the outbreak to kids playing in an hallow tree where bats roosted.

“Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates.”― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

It blended very quickly from the start, but the claims about "gaming journalism" while hallow as far as their actual activity, was IMO a semi legitimate claim as far as some of the initial outrage..... but really it moved on quickly and didn't matter.

The cancellation of debts is from Leviticus 25:"And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.

The counter argument, though, is "How many people have read Lincoln's Gettysburg Address"?Many know "Four score and seven years ago", but how many know "we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate, we can not hallow this ground"?I think this says more about our "sound-bite" culture than how protective the family is of the audio.

Hallow definitions

verb

render holy by means of religious rites

See also: consecrate bless sanctify