How to Use profanity in a Sentence

profanity

noun

• The comic uses too much profanity.
• I have never heard my father utter a single profanity.
• My mom will not tolerate profanity.
• So for Rapp’s play script, the Socs won’t be villains and there is a good amount of profanity.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Feb. 2023
• One of the men walks up to Schnabel, yelling profanities.
  — Lauren Izso, Brahim Dahman and Ibrahim Hazboun, CNN, 4 Feb. 2024
• For his bravado and, at times, profanity, Clark appeared to have a keen sense of right and wrong.
  — John Caniglia, cleveland, 21 Mar. 2021
• Howell read from many of the messages, using the same profanity the men had.
  — Tom Jackman, Anchorage Daily News, 16 July 2022
• As the crowd booed loudly and shouted profanities at him, Green yelled right back.
  — Ron Kroichick, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Apr. 2023
• And with Stephen’s plays, as much profanity as there is, there’s a tremendous amount of care for the other person.
  — Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 28 Oct. 2021
• Rogers was equally vocal about the things that mattered to him; about doing the right thing; and about the use of profanity in language.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 12 Sep. 2021
• She is seen in the video confronting the officers, trying to get the officers to cease the search while yelling profanities.
  — Michael Roppolo, CBS News, 23 Aug. 2023
• The superstar singer asked that the lyrics that contained profanity be changed.
  — Lisa Respers France, CNN, 29 Sep. 2022
• Still, Lynch's use of that word and other profanity during the show didn't sit well with Manning.
  — Dana Hunsinger Benbow, The Indianapolis Star, 27 Oct. 2021
• Tribou took him to task for the profanity in his books, but kept them on the school reading list nonetheless.
  — Steve Straessle, Arkansas Online, 3 Oct. 2020
• There’s a limit, but a little profanity can go a long way to getting your point across.
  — WSJ, 29 May 2022
• Pirone spotted Grant walking between the train cars and used profanity to order him to get off the train, the report says.
  — Aya Elamroussi, CNN, 19 Aug. 2021
• Some profanity and a brief glimpse of Hannah’s backside were too hot for Disney to handle at the time.
  — WIRED, 23 Sep. 2022
• The democrat took to twitter Monday evening to defend her use of profanity after the video of her at the Pride event went viral.
  — Lorraine Taylor, Fox News, 28 June 2022
• Both the guilty and the innocent are glum, profanity-spewing dullards.
  — Dan Lybarger, Arkansas Online, 14 May 2021
• Students who used profanity and recorders were removed from the game.
  — Quinn Clark, Journal Sentinel, 27 Mar. 2023
• The crowd erupted once more, this time with profanity and asking again why the officers would shoot.
  — Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 22 Oct. 2020
• Those sitting behind the bench got quite the education in the art of profanity.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Dec. 2022
• Stafford, McVay and Miller were among the team members who let fly with profanity while addressing the crowd.
  — Josh Peter, USA TODAY, 16 Feb. 2022
• Try not to use profanity on the air to describe our reaction.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 14 Mar. 2022
• Sure, the profanity has been papered over (sometimes rather colorfully), but the melodies are the same.
  — Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 20 June 2023
• The woman used a profanity against the resident and walked toward her car.
  — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 10 Mar. 2022
• There are a lot of asterisks and ‘FMLs,’ and the text language is very much distilled down into acronyms that use profanity.
  — Karen Idelson, Variety, 20 Sep. 2023
• Her husband then took the gun from his wife and pointed it at the couple while screaming profanities at them, police said.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 18 Sep. 2023
• But still, in 2024, profanity does not fly over the actual airwaves — not even in primetime.
  — Tony Maglio, IndieWire, 16 Sep. 2024
• In another, fans directed profanities and one-finger salutes to Padres outfielder Fernando Tatis Jr., who blew kisses to the stands and seemed to strut after making a wild catch in the fourth inning.
  — Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024