How to Use sacrilege in a Sentence

sacrilege

noun

• They accused him of sacrilege.
• They accused him of committing a sacrilege.
• Still, to call Swift a cynic might as well be sacrilege.
  — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 28 Oct. 2022
• The leather sold at Zara or H&M or other mass-market places is kind of a sacrilege.
  — Sarah Moroz, The Cut, 23 Oct. 2017
• And for many years, the Kalash have been wary about the threat from Islamist militants who see their faith as sacrilege.
  — New York Times, 27 Dec. 2020
• Some consider this sacrilege, the chile masking the flavor of the fish.
  — Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2018
• The only thing that’s not allowed in the chili is greens or vegetables of any kind — that would be sacrilege.
  — cleveland, 1 July 2020
• The man was beaten to death for allegedly trying to commit an act of sacrilege at the holiest shrine of the Sikh faith.
  — NBC News, 20 Dec. 2021
• Coming from somebody who writes about craft beer for the Free Press, this might sound like sacrilege, but there are a couple of reasons for this.
  — Brian Manzullo, Detroit Free Press, 18 Jan. 2023
• From the minute the trailer dropped, the Austenite gatekeepers were crying sacrilege, and sure, this will rankle lovers of the novel.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 July 2022
• The approach is designed to keep anyone from drinking warm beer, sacrilege in Brazil.
  — Jack Nicas, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Dec. 2021
• That sounds like sacrilege, to say that all the impressive achievements of deep learning amount to just fitting a curve to data.
  — Kevin Hartnett, The Atlantic, 19 May 2018
• The Ninth is one of the closest things the classical canon has to a holy text; tinkering with it no doubt amounts to sacrilege for some listeners.
  — Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 16 July 2023
• Those who think it’s sacrilege to have anything but turkey as the main attraction.
  — Dawn Davis, Bon Appétit, 30 Oct. 2021
• But the fact that it’s become almost synonymous with tech is a sacrilege.
  — Anthony Coppers, Rolling Stone, 21 June 2023
• At the climax, the priest destroys the altar in an act of horrifying sacrilege.
  — Aja Romano, Vox, 25 Aug. 2018
• Some like it sweet, others think adding sugar is sacrilege.
  — Nicole Hvidsten, Star Tribune, 20 Jan. 2021
• The way the presence of cameras breaks up the comfortable rhythm of live performance is almost sacrilege.
  — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 May 2022
• As some of us see it, this is the political equivalent of sacrilege.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 13 Feb. 2023
• Turning it into a marketing tool to be packaged and sold is a sacrilege.
  — Jim Stiles, The Denver Post, 8 Apr. 2017
• No mentions for any of these is bordering on sacrilege.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Jan. 2023
• In contrarian fashion, Ramsay offers two hot dogs on the menu, each with ketchup on it: fast-food sacrilege in these parts.
  — chicagotribune.com, 23 Mar. 2022
• Traditionalists might gasp at the idea of painting your floors, saying it’s sacrilege to cover the wood.
  — Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2021
• Described that way, naturally the project sounds like a sacrilege.
  — James Fallows, The Atlantic, 5 May 2015
• In football-crazy Texas, the sight of Rangers pitchers playing quarterback in the outfield before games was nothing short of sacrilege.
  — New York Times, 9 May 2022
• To belittle or assault God's creatures is thus to be guilty of blasphemy and sacrilege.
  — Shai Held, CNN, 29 May 2017
• The first evening reservations were for 7:30 — to dine out any earlier in Mumbai is sacrilege — and parties were staggered, as a meal could last three hours, which meant tables were rarely turned.
  — Ligaya Mishan Anu Kumar, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2022
• For Turgenev, who as a student had twice caught glimpses of Pushkin in St. Petersburg before the poet’s death, this was borderline sacrilege.
  — Keith Gessen, The New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2022
• For those who follow in Pesce’s bright shadow, his cheerful sacrilege is an invitation to go wild.
  — Matthew Schneier, Curbed, 14 Sep. 2021
• To fans of Bad Bunny, the near-instantaneous unavailability of the new Crocs felt like sacrilege.
  — Star Tribune, 30 Oct. 2020

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024