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

West Virginia, Massachusetts, South Dakota, Louisiana, Iowa, Illinois—these isolated local stories are combining to mark a nationwide desecration of the dead.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 14, 2026

She said she wanted to "unleash the spirit of Lincolnshire" against "the planned desecration of our countryside".

From BBC • Jul. 30, 2025

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