How to Use profane in a Sentence

profane

adjective

• Even though the police said all kind of profane things to him.
  — Abc News, ABC News, 27 Jan. 2023
• Marziano walked back to his patrol car and called Williams a profane name, the footage showed.
  — Elise Schmelzer, The Denver Post, 6 Sep. 2019
• Garrett is then told more about the show and his profane side that comes through.
  — Drew Davison, star-telegram, 24 Apr. 2018
• What is profane is a 17-month-old baby being shot in the face.
  — CBS News, 2 Sep. 2019
• The group’s furious and profane lyrics were bolstered by Dre’s ear for the bounce of funk.
  — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 5 Jan. 2021
• Brown bragged about the incident in profane text messages that are copied in the lawsuit.
  — Ben Shpigel, SFChronicle.com, 10 Sep. 2019
• Redmond continued to be loud and profane in the parking lot of the grocery store.
  — Karen Pilarski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 Mar. 2018
• But in our more profane era, even The New York Times is becoming saltier.
  — Jeet Heer, The New Republic, 29 June 2018
• Quite a lot of profane language’’ came next, Bennett said with a chuckle.
  — Ben Guarino, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Apr. 2018
• Someone in the room also shouted profane names at Sanders.
  — oregonlive.com, 21 June 2019
• What is profane is losing the life of a high school student in that shooting yesterday.
  — CBS News, 2 Sep. 2019
• Reddit’s profane, greedy traders are shaking up the stock market.
  — Adam Blenford, Bloomberg.com, 26 Feb. 2020
• So what if the language is harsher, more profane than Ned Flanders would prefer?
  — Chuck Yarborough, cleveland.com, 17 Apr. 2018
• Ramsay crafts a redemption that’s both holy and profane.
  — Ty Burr, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Apr. 2018
• The exchange is too profane to be quoted here, but the combatants are a woman and her foster daughter, and their fight is about a man.
  — Glenn Kenny, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2018
• Gijón is a port town, working-class and occasionally profane, but open to the sea and new ideas.
  — Chiara Goia, National Geographic, 14 Dec. 2019
• Its dialogue isn’t faster, more profane, or more hyped than other movies.
  — Miami Staff, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
• The appeals court said that the comments were neither threatening nor profane.
  — Greg Moran, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Apr. 2023
• The commingling of the sacred and profane in Byron’s mature verse has no single root cause, but any inquiries should start with May Gray.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2024
• At the 2018 Tony Awards the actor and director gave a brief, profane, and pointless outburst about President Trump.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 11 June 2018
• What Boris supplied was an ability to talk about the game in a way that was candid, honest, refreshing, and profane.
  — Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 12 Apr. 2023
• The prose, translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer, is sublime, profane, and propulsive.
  — The New Yorker, 9 July 2023
• The 6-3 ruling in the case, Iancu v. Brunetti, could lead to more requests to trademark words that may be considered lewd, profane, and vulgar.
  — Terry Collins, Fortune, 24 June 2019
• The profane cross-talk dialogue only gets wittier, and more manic, which brings me to...
  — Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 8 June 2018
• But the one thing that he’s truly hammered home is that cry of dereliction, destruction, and profane (yet not faithless) rage.
  — Christian Wiman, Harper's magazine, 20 Jan. 2020
• But that brief flurry of Pogues songs — bold, profane, colorful and humane — retained their power and revealed their depths over the years.
  — Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2023
• Ramsey went on a profane rant against media members and threatened one on Twitter.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Sep. 2019
• Announcers became more profane as the results pour in on election night 2016.
  — Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 8 July 2018
• The band’s lead singer shouted the same profane line, before delving into a hardcore song that sent patrons moshing through the diner.
  — Lizzy Rosenberg, Peoplemag, 31 Oct. 2023
• Using vulgar, profane or indecent language in a loud or boisterous manner in the presence of children.
  — Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 10 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024