How to Use desecration in a Sentence

desecration

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  • All of them condemn the desecration of the Capitol and pray for a way to find common ground.
    — Star Tribune, 7 Feb. 2021
  • Ipsen was at first appalled by the desecration of the pristine desert.
    — Mark Pratt, latimes.com, 7 May 2018
  • For them, the desecration of the courtyard came from the desire of some to sell it, but also from her cameras.
    — Trinidad Barleycorn, Variety, 25 Apr. 2023
  • Seven months later, Cheng Chung-tai faces a charge of flag desecration and as many as three years in jail.
    — David Tweed, Bloomberg.com, 7 June 2017
  • The film follows a group of American men who venture into the desert to dig up the corpse of a witch and pay a price for their desecration.
    — Jd Linville, Variety, 1 Apr. 2022
  • And not in an act of dizzy desecration, but with a kind of serrated—slightly crazed?—reasonableness.
    — James Parker, The Atlantic, 10 Oct. 2020
  • In 2018, people walking along Port Williams Beach found a skull that was glued to the top of a stick in an unusual case of desecration.
    — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Feb. 2020
  • The boy was charged as an adult this week with first-degree murder and desecration of a human corpse stemming from the March 6 killing.
    — Chris Harris, PEOPLE.com, 17 June 2021
  • He was charged with murder and desecration of a human corpse.
    — Fox News, 27 Oct. 2021
  • Outrage at the desecration of the sacred space spread throughout the region.
    — Mary Christine Bader, Star Tribune, 14 May 2021
  • And growing up, our younger people, know that desecration or digging up a burial site is not the thing to do.
    — Amy Yurkanin | [email protected], al, 21 July 2023
  • The vandalism at the mission included paint splattered on the courtyard fountain, the doors of the cathedral and the desecration of graves on the grounds.
    — James Herrera, The Mercury News, 28 Feb. 2017
  • Cabernets, merlots and syrahs have all these blendings going on, and that’s a good thing, but to blend pinot noir would be a desecration.
    — Mike Dunne, sacbee, 20 Dec. 2017
  • He is charged as an adult with first-degree murder and desecration of a human corpse and arson.
    — Fox News, 19 June 2021
  • Many of the convention speakers focused on Black Lives Matters protests and the desecration of statutes.
    — Patrick Marley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 July 2020
  • The two also will face a charge of desecration of a human being for allegedly putting the baby in the dumpster.
    — Warren Kulo | [email protected], al, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Orm was crowned King of Atlantis in the first film and sought to declare war on the surface world for humanity's desecration of the seven seas.
    — Alexia Fernández, PEOPLE.com, 8 Sep. 2021
  • The desecration of the Fourth of July is yet another reason to kick him out of town next November.
    — Eugene Robinson, The Mercury News, 18 June 2019
  • Two decades later, the Supreme Court took up a case of flag desecration, after a man was arrested for burning a US flag.
    — Stephanie Becker, CNN, 22 May 2022
  • The root for challah, ח–ל–ל, also bears a striking resemblance to the word chillul, which means desecration.
    — Benjamin, Longreads, 20 May 2022
  • The idea was that taxing a dead person was some sort of unspeakable desecration.
    — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 18 June 2021
  • Graham and Drake, both 18 and from Fishers, face felony charges of arson and a misdemeanor count of flag desecration.
    — Crystal Hill, Indianapolis Star, 5 July 2019
  • Iraq’s prime minister has cut diplomatic ties with Sweden in protest over the desecration of the Quran in that country.
    — Ali Jabar and Jari Tanner, BostonGlobe.com, 22 July 2023
  • Police described the recent throwing of fireworks from inside the mosque, at least one of which caused a small fire in a carpet, as an act of desecration.
    — Andrew Carey, Abeer Salman and Hadas Gold, CNN, 21 Apr. 2022
  • The build again is slow: strange rappings in the attic, a Ouija board, a fantasy playmate, desecrations at the local church.
    — Louis Bayard, Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2023
  • It was based on a lie, fed by myth, and culminated in violence, in vandalism, and in the desecration of the people's house.
    — Jeremy Barr, Star Tribune, 7 Jan. 2021
  • Przybycien is now charged with first-degree murder and desecration of a human body in the death of Jchandra Brown.
    — Ruth Brown, idahostatesman, 17 May 2017
  • Managers documented as well the sheer scale of the desecration of the building itself.
    — Peter Baker, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Feb. 2021
  • Blumenthal said the grants, which can be used to purchase security enhancements such as cameras, bulletproof windows, door locks and armed guards, will prevent and deter desecration and violence across the state.
    — Alison Cross, Hartford Courant, 13 May 2024
  • In the meantime, he was charged with murder, aggravated arson, child endangerment and desecration of human remains.
    — Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 2 Apr. 2024

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