What's the difference between hallowed and holly?

Hallowed


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Hallow

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Louis CK is exploding a few myths about one of pop culture's most hallowed spaces, the sitcom writers' room.
  • (2) Because the all-hallowed children must learn from their elders to exercise, every adult entering Hampstead Heath must hit the dirt for a set of 25 press-ups.
  • (3) 5.02pm BST PS: one last line from Dublin, from Henry McDonald: There was some pre-Hallowe'en ghoulish reaction to one aspect of the budget cuts from Fianna Fail, the main opposition party in Ireland .
  • (4) Thinking it was quite a lark we joined in and the ensuing 10-minute interval on the hallowed turf was a carnival atmosphere with much fun had by all, the highlight being the conga lines dancing to the chant of 'Bulstrode is a wanker'.
  • (5) Wednesday's decision by the UK supreme court in the case of Yunus Rahmatullah , a man detained by the British in Iraq, might seem to be about the hallowed writ of habeas corpus .
  • (6) But not everyone saw the Sun King - as the financial press dubbed him - in such hallowed terms, with an army of environmentalists, corporate responsibility experts and even investors turning against him despite wideranging attempts to position BP as a corporate champion of all their causes.
  • (7) As the floors rise, their balustrades are topped with thin bands of blue, red, yellow and green, reading as a stack of Olympic rings from the upper level – a mischievous retort to the International Olympic Committee's official ban on the use of their hallowed linked rings.
  • (8) Games were played and nobody ever thought of protecting the hallowed turf.
  • (9) President Obama broke new ground in his inaugural address when he elevated the 1969 Stonewall gay rights protest to the same hallowed position enjoyed in the American memory by the battle for women's equality and the civil rights struggle.
  • (10) They say the outpouring of condemnation at the "outrage" of a mosque close to the "hallowed ground" of the World Trade Centre site also goes hand in hand with the increasing acceptability of what they describe as hate speech.
  • (11) 7.40pm BST The ceremony continues .. Now dozens of large men pretending to be knights are doing fake battle on the hallowed Wembley turf.
  • (12) Ten hallowed concepts have been critically analyzed in the light of modern technology and contemporary experience.
  • (13) The BBC1 drama was up against the terrestrial premiere of the concluding part of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 on ITV.
  • (14) It was first held in 1835 to honour the silver wedding anniversary of King Ludwig I of Bavaria and Therese, after whom the hallowed Oktoberfest site, the Theresienwiese, is named.
  • (15) In All Hallows' Eve, the focus is on forgiveness and the opportunity to correct relational mistakes while one is in a purgatorial state.
  • (16) It's a sign of the times that the world's most tradition-bound ensemble is now a web trailblazer, opening up the hallowed halls of Berlin's Philharmonie to an infinitely wider audience.
  • (17) The site has become a breeding ground for a new generation of visually inventive film-makers, for whom the ultimate status symbol is a place among the hallowed “staff picks” on its homepage.
  • (18) There was a time when the closest Christofer Toumazou thought he would get to the hallowed halls of Imperial College in London was when he was walking down Exhibition road on the way to the science museum, with the workshops of the esteemed institution visible on his right.
  • (19) In 2011 China delayed the local release dates for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 and Transformers: Dark of the Moon to give propaganda epic Beginning of the Great Revival a clear run at the box office, while James Bond film Skyfall was similarly pushed back in 2012.
  • (20) Radcliffe in Harry Porter And The Deathly Hallows: 'There aren't many great parts out there for teenage boys, certainly not as good as Harry Potter.'

Holly


Definition:

  • (adv.) Wholly.
  • (n.) A tree or shrub of the genus Ilex. The European species (Ilex Aguifolium) is best known, having glossy green leaves, with a spiny, waved edge, and bearing berries that turn red or yellow about Michaelmas.
  • (n.) The holm oak. See 1st Holm.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) At the weekend the couple’s daughter, Holly Graham, 29, expressed frustration at the lack of information coming from the Foreign Office and the tour operator that her parents travelled with.
  • (2) Holly Combe, a member of Feminists Against Censorship , shares these concerns.
  • (3) His story - which he was led through on Monday by his lawyer - is that he was outside his house cleaning Sadie, his dog, when the girls came down the road; that he took Holly and Jessica into his house because Holly had a nosebleed; took them upstairs into the bathroom where Holly sat on the edge of the full bath and he gave her tissues to staunch it; took Holly into his bedroom, to sit on the bed while Jessica used the toilet, took Holly back into the bathroom where she could finish cleaning up her nosebleed; accidentally slipped beside Holly and the full bath, and heard a splash; froze in panic; placed his hand over Jessica's mouth because she was screaming, 'You pushed her'.
  • (4) Lerner is now more detached from the club than ever and in January appointed Steve Hollis as chairman after admitting Villa have “not been on a stable footing for at least five years”.
  • (5) The butandioldehydrogenase was examined in 153 strains of Eikenella, Moraxella, Acinetobacter, Agrobacterium, Haemophilus, Actinobacillus, Pasteurella, Cardiobacterium and "TM-1" of Hollis et al.
  • (6) More from Behind the joke • James Acaster: 'Normal people perv solo' • Phil Wang: impossibly wise or offensively stupid • Holly Walsh: 'I build my comedy block-by-block like Lego'
  • (7) Paul Dryhurst, a relative, said she had been in the arena with her sister Claire Booth, 34 and Claire’s daughter Hollie, 11.
  • (8) He took Jessica's mobile out of her pocket; he carried their bodies down the stairs and, after checking no one was around, bundled them into the cramped boot of his car, bending their legs to fit them in; he collected petrol and bin bags (to protect his feet and thus conceal evidence); he drove to Lakenheath and found a lonely track; he got out where the vegetation grew thickly and he rolled the two girls down into the ditch; he climbed into the ditch and cut off their clothing - their red football shirts and their tracksuit trousers, their knickers, Holly's black bra which she and her mother had bought the day before - and then he poured petrol over their bodies and threw on a match.
  • (9) Words included in this title include mistletoe, gerbil, acorn, goldfish, guinea pig, dandelion, starling, fern, willow, conifer, heather, buttercup, sycamore, holly, ivy, and conker.
  • (10) I would like to thank every worker out there who stood up for themselves and their families in asking for $15 per hour,” said Holly Dias, a Burger King worker who spoke at the press conference.
  • (11) In his recent autobiography, Wild Tales , Graham Nash – of the Hollies and Crosby Stills & Nash – recalled the effect the song had on him when he heard it at a school dance in Salford: "It was like the opening of a giant door in my soul, the striking of a chord... from which I've never recovered … From the time when I first heard the Everly Brothers, I knew I wanted to make music that affected people the way the Everlys affected me."
  • (12) The American owner has confirmed Hollis, a former deputy chairman of Birmingham Metropolitan College, as his replacement at Villa Park.
  • (13) Holly Branson, daughter of the tycoon Richard – whose company Virgin sponsors the race – was at the finish line waiting to give Lomas the Virgin trophy for endurance.
  • (14) The isolate seems identical to the lactose positive (L+) Vibrio described by HOLLIS et al.
  • (15) 1984: Virgin Atlantic Airways formed; 1986: Virgin Group floats on stock market (bought back two years later); 1987: Branson crosses Atlantic in balloon; 1998: Branson invests in railways; 1999 he launches Virgin Mobile and is knighted; 2000: he fails to win National Lottery bid Family: Wife Joan, children Holly, 21, and Sam, 16 Hobbies: Ballooning, sailing and the occasional publicity stunt.
  • (16) No dental fluorosis was observed in deer collected at Medway Plantation, but mild dental fluorosis was observed in a significant number of deer collected at Mount Holly Plantation.
  • (17) The smelter was located on Mount Holly Plantation in South Carolina, and concentrations of skeletal fluoride in the deer collected at Mount Holly increased approximately five-fold 3 yr after the operation began.
  • (18) The snowman's quest is accompanied by a fey, irritating cover version of Frankie Goes to Hollywood's The Power of Love , in which Holly Johnson is replaced by a breathy chanteuse whimpering at the piano like a dog that needs taking for a walk.
  • (19) Holly qualified as a doctor, and now works in the Virgin empire, and Sam is working on this documentary.
  • (20) The 36-year-old was taken for treatment after he was attacked at Frankland prison in County Durham, where he is serving two life sentences for murdering schoolgirls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman.