desecration

Example Sentences

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Certain hardline sections of the ultra-Orthodox community disagree with autopsies, saying any interference with a dead body is a desecration according to the Torah.

From Barron's • Jan. 20, 2026

Indigenous residents protest the potential desecration of their ancestral land.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025

Local authorities say four suspects have been arrested over the desecration, but their identities have not been made public.

From BBC • Nov. 20, 2024

Native Hawaiians have strongly objected to adding an enormous telescope to the many on Manua Kea, the TMT’s preferred site, regarding it as a further desecration of a sacred place.

From Science Magazine • May 24, 2024

It was a nightmare, of course, and a desecration of the highest mountain in the northeast, but I was delighted it existed in one place.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson