How to Use desecration in a Sentence

desecration

noun

• 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 | [e-mail], 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 | [e-mail], 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
• Cave desecration can involve the careless discarding of a Flaming Hot Cheetos bag.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 24 Sep. 2024
• Kahane’s followers also justified violence against Palestinians, teaching that harm to a Jew is a desecration of God’s name and must be avenged.
  — Arie Perliger, The Conversation, 18 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 24 Dec 2024