How to Use desecrate in a Sentence

desecrate

verb
Definition of desecratenext
Synonyms for desecratenext
  • The vandals were accused of desecrating graves.
  • Hundreds of Muslim men knocked down the walls, desecrated the nave, burned copies of the Bible, and set fire to the furniture.
    — Hasan Ali, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Leave it to Trump to desecrate the nominating process for the Nobel Peace Prize on his way out.
    — Sarah Midkiff, refinery29.com, 9 Sep. 2020
  • In the wake of the furore, Ho’s office was ransacked and his parents’ graves desecrated.
    — Time Staff, Time, 6 Nov. 2019
  • In the run-up to the 1929 riots, Arab leaders claimed (falsely) that the Jews intended to desecrate al-Aqsa.
    — Douglas J. Feith, National Review, 27 Aug. 2019
  • No highways, please, to desecrate a War of 1812 site and the birthplace of the National Anthem.
    — Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 1 Oct. 2022
  • In ’87, his tomb was desecrated; his hands were stolen and held for a ransom that was never paid.
    — Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2019
  • Robb's body was desecrated by the Freys after the Red Wedding.
    — Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 8 Mar. 2019
  • Issac tried not to do anything that would desecrate Shabbos for the rest of the family.
    — Larissa MacFarquhar, The New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2020
  • Goddess of fire, Pele, is believed to live on Kilauea volcano, and the plant itself is thought to desecrate her name.
    — Stephen Sorace, Fox News, 23 May 2018
  • For those who aren't aware, November is Movember: that special time of the year when men desecrate their pretty faces in the name of men's health.
    — Christie Wilcox, Discover Magazine, 14 Nov. 2012
  • The bodies of the protesters that Caesar saw that day had been desecrated by soldiers, though the dead did have names.
    — Susie Linfield, The New York Review of Books, 9 Feb. 2019
  • The Maccabees then sought to cleanse the temple the Syrians had desecrated.
    — The Editorial Board, Orange County Register, 23 Dec. 2019
  • The plan to keep the site a secret is based on concerns about relic hunters and others who might desecrate a war grave, officials said.
    — al, 23 Aug. 2021
  • Jacob Laskey, who spent more than a decade in prison for desecrating Eugene’s largest synagogue, took to YouTube to praise her.
    — OregonLive.com, 29 Dec. 2017
  • Sometime after burial, the grave was desecrated and all the bones removed except those of the lower legs.
    — Franz Lidz, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2023
  • The pipeline is taking that away from us, taking away from our [rice] beds that have already been desecrated.
    — Rosalie Chan, Teen Vogue, 18 Sep. 2017
  • One stone in one cemetery being desecrated is one stone too many.
    — Newsweek, 28 Apr. 2017
  • Many of its windows had been shattered and its treasures ripped out or desecrated.
    — National Geographic, 15 Apr. 2019
  • Steer people who may be enraged away from actions that could desecrate the memory of the deceased.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Oct. 2019
  • Some Native Hawaiians say the project will desecrate sacred land.
    — Washington Post, 16 July 2019
  • Some of the vignettes are creepy and comical, like one with two pig demons guarding a church door while cat demons go about their business of desecrating the altar.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 11 Oct. 2019
  • To think that 80 years later, Russian forces would strike the area of the Babyn Yar memorial site and desecrate the memories of the Jews who were murdered there, is sickening.
    — Liora Rez, CNN, 2 Mar. 2022
  • Later Christian writers saw this as a bid to desecrate the site and erase the memory of Jesus, but scholars dispute that claim.
    — National Geographic, 28 Nov. 2017
  • Angry Muslims were urged to go back to their homes, allegedly with promises that the man who desecrated the Quran would soon be arrested.
    — Asim Tanveer and Munir Ahmed, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Former Marine Corps reservist Yonathan Melaku is sentenced to 25 years in prison for attempting to desecrate graves at the cemetery.
    — Cnn Editorial Research, CNN, 16 June 2021
  • Southern Nevada also dissolved – in a trail of debt and desecrated body parts.
    — Author: Brian Grow, John Shiffman, Alaska Dispatch News, 24 Oct. 2017
  • The homage had people, well, hot, as if Choppa had just desecrated someone’s headstone.
    — Alex Suskind, Vulture, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Since the tombstones — and sometimes even the contents of the graves — had been desecrated, damaged or removed, Mr. Izzo has made restoring both graveyards his life’s work.
    — Robin Pogrebin, New York Times, 30 May 2017
  • The tech world spent the following days trying to read the tea leaves, to game out Musk’s plans and motives for overhauling — some would say desecrating — one of the most recognizable names in tech.
    — Brian Merchant, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2023

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