sacrilege

Example Sentences

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As if that weren’t sacrilege enough, the authors offer a series of additionally shocking revelations.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

“It would be a sacrilege merely to redecorate it — a word I hate. It must be restored, and that has nothing to do with decoration. That is a question of scholarship.”

From Salon • Jan. 4, 2026

And while it may be sacrilege to call Isabella Rossellini and Hope Davis superfluous, as an anthropology professor and a flamboyant mother, respectively, they are.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 6, 2023

There was only a dot of cream cheese left, so I had to supplement it with butter — sacrilege to New Yorkers.

From Washington Times • Jul. 19, 2023

When Dad wasn’t around, I’d heard her say things that he—or at least this new incarnation of him—would have called sacrilege, things like, “Herbs are supplements. For something serious, you should go to a doctor.”

From "Educated" by Tara Westover