Sentence examples for hallowed field from inspiring English sources

Steelers fans bid a reluctant adieu to Three Rivers Stadium, realizing that it is better to lose the hallowed field than the whole team.

Aye, post-Glastonbury, 175,000 souls emerge quivering from hallowed fields in the Vale of Avalon and meander bleakly back to the office.

For instance, I recently returned to our hallowed playing fields to watch a Saturday gridiron bone-cruncher and was pleased as punch to see the new scoreboard with all the features of true mass-market prosperity: instant replay, standard Big 10 exclamations ("DE-fense," "Aw, SHUCKS") and canned music classics like the theme from "Jaws".

Amid the chirp of birds and the sway of the breeze, survivors of the Second Corps reminded listeners that they had helped to render "this field hallowed ground, dear to every lover of liberty and the cause of free constitutional government".

Some come to walk the fields hallowed by the blood of Americans willing to give their lives for a greater cause.

One of the most prized possessions of a family friend is the piece of sod that he uprooted from the hallowed playing field of Notre Dame Stadium during a postgame celebration.

To oil companies, however, the field is hallowed ground, one of the few in history to break the million-barrel-a-day benchmark, earning it "a place in the small pantheon of truly elite oil fields," as one Reuters market analyst wrote.

It was a daring move in a state where football fields are hallowed turf.

It was adrift in the middle of a field, she said, hardly the hallowed space that cemeteries typically are.

What is important is not the building itself but the playing field, which in sports history is hallowed ground.

It is building on the hallowed playbook written by President Obama's campaign teams, implementing technological advancements that enable field organizers to find, track and prod potential voters with even more precision and efficiency.