defiling

Example Sentences

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Coming to grips with the experience of that landscape was a major turning point in my understanding about the degree to which we as a species are capable of defiling our planet.

From BBC • Mar. 7, 2023

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

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 16, 2022

"This is a defiling a classic," said another.

From Reuters • Feb. 13, 2022

Others see the mining as defiling the land on the reserve by polluting the waters, stripping bare the land, as well as upending centuries-old cultural traditions.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 17, 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