How to Use desecrate in a Sentence

desecrate

verb

• The vandals were accused of desecrating graves.
• Hundreds of Muslim men knocked down the walls, desecrated the nave, burned copies of the Bible, and set fire to the furniture.
  — Hasan Ali, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Aug. 2023
• Leave it to Trump to desecrate the nominating process for the Nobel Peace Prize on his way out.
  — Sarah Midkiff, refinery29.com, 9 Sep. 2020
• In the wake of the furore, Ho’s office was ransacked and his parents’ graves desecrated.
  — Time Staff, Time, 6 Nov. 2019
• In the run-up to the 1929 riots, Arab leaders claimed (falsely) that the Jews intended to desecrate al-Aqsa.
  — Douglas J. Feith, National Review, 27 Aug. 2019
• No highways, please, to desecrate a War of 1812 site and the birthplace of the National Anthem.
  — Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 1 Oct. 2022
• In ’87, his tomb was desecrated; his hands were stolen and held for a ransom that was never paid.
  — Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2019
• Robb's body was desecrated by the Freys after the Red Wedding.
  — Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 8 Mar. 2019
• Issac tried not to do anything that would desecrate Shabbos for the rest of the family.
  — Larissa MacFarquhar, The New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2020
• Goddess of fire, Pele, is believed to live on Kilauea volcano, and the plant itself is thought to desecrate her name.
  — Stephen Sorace, Fox News, 23 May 2018
• For those who aren't aware, November is Movember: that special time of the year when men desecrate their pretty faces in the name of men's health.
  — Christie Wilcox, Discover Magazine, 14 Nov. 2012
• The bodies of the protesters that Caesar saw that day had been desecrated by soldiers, though the dead did have names.
  — Susie Linfield, The New York Review of Books, 9 Feb. 2019
• The Maccabees then sought to cleanse the temple the Syrians had desecrated.
  — The Editorial Board, Orange County Register, 23 Dec. 2019
• The First Amendment gives us the right to dissent, not to desecrate (or defecate in) our noble dome of democracy.
  — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 18 Apr. 2024
• The plan to keep the site a secret is based on concerns about relic hunters and others who might desecrate a war grave, officials said.
  — al, 23 Aug. 2021
• When a dozen of the gravestones are desecrated, a corporate agenda may be at work.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 20 May 2024
• By the time Elgin’s men arrived, the Parthenon had been occupied, desecrated and burned.
  — William Booth, Washington Post, 28 Nov. 2023
• Jacob Laskey, who spent more than a decade in prison for desecrating Eugene’s largest synagogue, took to YouTube to praise her.
  — OregonLive.com, 29 Dec. 2017
• Sometime after burial, the grave was desecrated and all the bones removed except those of the lower legs.
  — Franz Lidz, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2023
• The pipeline is taking that away from us, taking away from our [rice] beds that have already been desecrated.
  — Rosalie Chan, Teen Vogue, 18 Sep. 2017
• One stone in one cemetery being desecrated is one stone too many.
  — Newsweek, 28 Apr. 2017
• Many of its windows had been shattered and its treasures ripped out or desecrated.
  — National Geographic, 15 Apr. 2019
• Steer people who may be enraged away from actions that could desecrate the memory of the deceased.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Oct. 2019
• Some Native Hawaiians say the project will desecrate sacred land.
  — Washington Post, 16 July 2019
• Some of the vignettes are creepy and comical, like one with two pig demons guarding a church door while cat demons go about their business of desecrating the altar.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 11 Oct. 2019
• To think that 80 years later, Russian forces would strike the area of the Babyn Yar memorial site and desecrate the memories of the Jews who were murdered there, is sickening.
  — Liora Rez, CNN, 2 Mar. 2022
• Later Christian writers saw this as a bid to desecrate the site and erase the memory of Jesus, but scholars dispute that claim.
  — National Geographic, 28 Nov. 2017
• This week, Maduro desecrated that people’s lore like a dog hiking his hind leg over a Caracas fire hydrant.
  — Tim Padgett, Orlando Sentinel, 9 Aug. 2024
• Eldest daughter Eda, de facto head of the household, seeks to salvage the compact by desecrating it.
  — Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 20 Sep. 2024
• But one night, multiple graves, including that of Karsh’s wife, are desecrated and Karsh looks to track down the perpetrators.
  — Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019

Last Updated: 23 Dec 2024