defiling

Example Sentences

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Let’s start with the users defiling the site with parodies of Musk and prominent corporations.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 16, 2022

That meant a lot to all of us in this community who were dismayed to see hateful messages defiling a shared space where our kids play.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 30, 2022

The country's blasphemy law prohibits disturbing a religious assembly, trespassing on burial grounds, insulting religious beliefs or intentionally destroying or defiling a place or an object of worship.

From BBC • Apr. 18, 2022

"I don't want to reinforce that defiling the Capitol was OK. I don't want to do anything that would make this more likely in the future," he told CBS.

From Reuters • Jan. 31, 2022

We are all our beautiful bodies and so must never be prostrate before barbarians, must never submit our original self, our one of one, to defiling and plunder.

From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates