How To Use Desecrate In A Sentence
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(Not to be confused with what we call cookies)To serve Devon, or Cornwall clotted cream would desecrate a good southern biscuit (and be a waste of the cream really, I prefer it on saffron buns)a bit of plain cream, fresh butter, and cane syrup poured over a hot biscuit is ambrosia.
Scones, Cream and Jam - a West Country cream tea
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Yes, well that's to protect against intruders who want to desecrate this holy room.
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I'm a light heavyweight, but this guy looked well over heavyweight and his tattoos made him look like a statue desecrated by graffiti.
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We pollute, litter and desecrate our own country because we live in hermetic air-conditioned vinyl castles.
Police Continue Serial Rapist DNA Hunt at cvillenews.com
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To desecrate a holy spring is considered profanity.
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Over the years I have become more and more aggravated by the way Americans butcher the English language, by the way members of the media misuse terms, by the charlatanical ways in which corrupt persons in power desecrate noble words such as "democracy" which, coming from their mouths, is the equivalent of the word "love" emanating from the mouth of a whore.
Award Winning author, journalist and humorist, Burton H. Wolfe is Interviewed
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In some anterior time, the burial mound had been desecrated, its jeweled contents taken away.
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Who can possibly consider that they have the right to desecrate our countryside in such a way?
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The Carrizoso plateau had been sacred ground, and it was unsupposable that it could ever be desecrated by the trampling hoofs and scissor noses of these woolly abominations.
Heart's Desire
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She claimed that ‘sacred, hallowed turf’ had been violated and desecrated with no concern for those who lost friends and colleagues in a war in the defence of their country.
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On either side of this desecrated apartment, stretched, to the right, the old lararium, stripped of its ancient images of ancestor and god; to the left, what had been the gynoecium (women's apartment).
Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 01
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In April, over 40 graves were desecrated and headstone overturned.
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A two-minute silence was held and each member of the congregation was invited to lay flowers on those graves desecrated by the yobs.
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To "desecrate" something it has to be sacred in the first place.
Palin hits back at 'malicious' photo
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It's a crime to desecrate the country's flag.
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Also, I think it's interesting that they should use the term "desecrate" in reference to their proposed amendment.
Archive 2005-06-01
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According to the head of the Greek Orthodox parish for Bethlehem, Father Speridon, the mass was a reconsecration since the church marking the spot where Jesus was born had been desecrated during the siege.
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While most of the graves are lovingly tended, many others are overgrown, unkempt and desecrated.
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He was sickened when, just months later, vandals desecrated the memorial, built to commemorate villagers who fought in the First World War.
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There are many Israeli companies that "desecrate" the Sabbath already.
IAGblog
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There is nothing holy which is not desecrated, which is not degraded to a mean end among this people.
Uncollected Prose
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She shouldn't have desecrated the picture of a religious leader.
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Without exception, the children were incensed at the idea of Scottish battle sites being desecrated by building development.
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If we buried our dead in the sand, the wild animals would desecrate their memory and dishonor their body.
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I don't believe our youths would stoop so low as to desecrate the graves or vandalise the cemetery.
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On the eastern front in WW II enemy dead were disposed of without ceremony and enemy cemeteries desecrated.
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Mindless vandals have desecrated the grave of a stillborn baby for the fourth time in less than five months.
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many desecrated shrines and cemeteries
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Desecrated by bombings and ravaged by war, Dubrovnik has been lovingly restored and is once again one of the most charming and delightful cities in Europe
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Vandals desecrated a 17th century graveyard when they sprayed white and gold graffiti on two ancient gravestones.
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But in relation to the new cemetery, I don't believe our youths would stoop so low as to desecrate the graves or vandalise the cemetery.
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Good stuff except for one major thing: Right or wrong, believing in a 9/11 conspiracy does not "desecrate" the memory of those who died.
Tom Matzzie: Memo to Right-Wing Donors -- This is Who You're Getting in Bed With
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Not just the desecrated bodies of the dead, but the shattered lives of those who knew and loved them are thrust into the merciless gaze of the public eye.
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They dwelt with pathos upon those sacred rites desecrated by these "unsanctified" "young men" in their "miserable pamphlet.
The Emancipation of Massachusetts
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The shrines of St. Cuthbert and the Venerable Bede were desecrated and further iconoclasm would take place during the reign of Edward VI.
The Last Divine Office
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A tombstone standing over a grave for over 100 years was desecrated and pieces of the headstone were scattered over the area.
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The American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and Their Descendants, which represents about 80,000 families, said Iott's "failure to apologize is particularly shameful and desecrates the memory of all victims of the Nazis, Jew and non-Jew.
Democrats criticize GOP over House nominee who dressed as Nazi during battle reenactments
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A multi-million dollar gold mine with an estimated yield of $1.2 billion threatens to desecrate a sacred site of the Wiradjuri people.
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During the Atlanta campaign we were supplied by our regular commissaries with all sorts of patent compounds, such as desiccated vegetables, and concentrated milk, meat-biscuit, and sausages, but somehow the men preferred the simpler and more familiar forms of food, and usually styled these "desecrated vegetables and consecrated milk.
Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals
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Even its cemetery was desecrated, its 400 graves dug up.
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And I'm supposed to care that a copy of the Koran was "desecrated
Archive 2007-06-01
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How dare you desecrate this holy ground with foolish intentions.
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Five months after a church was desecrated by vandals, defiant parishioners have rebuilt their place of worship.
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A police spokesman said: ‘We are hoping that this offence will be detected and people will come forward with the name of the offender or offenders who have desecrated this grave.’
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I cannot fathom how an organisation empowered to preserve national heritage sites could desecrate natural resources in this manner.
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Instead of being apotheosized, it must be desecrated.
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The book was for many days snubbed, buffeted, browbeaten; and the care fully-woven tapestry was torn into shreds and trampled upon; and it seemed that the patiently sculptured shrine was overtured and despised and desecrated.
St. Elmo
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Who are these lazy, careless citizens who chose to pollute and desecrate this beautiful area - they cannot all be visitors!
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She shouldn't have desecrated the picture of a religious leader.
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And after the New World, would not the Old in its turn, be desecrated by the mad career of this remarkable automobilist?
The Master of the World
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We have been annoyed at finding his lofty name desecrated to base uses.
Moon Lore
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He said the people in the caravans had desecrated every area and they would just have to take strong action so that it would not happen again.
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Wouldn't the Damarian's be ticked that she "desecrated" their temple?
HH Com 205 (201)
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We're here in the West to revel in wide open spaces, not desecrate them.
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A distressed son is calling for greater security at a cemetery after three gravestones were desecrated by vandals.
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Grimly I dig up the turfs To remove the corrupted stiffs Trying to contain my excitement As I desecrate graveolent crypts ...
WN.com - Articles related to In memory of Mother: Eat your vegetables part four
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It is depressing for teachers and pupils alike to see their working environment desecrated by the moronic minority.
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A hooligan claiming to be a member of an anti-Scientology group was arrested Wednesday for attempting to "desecrate" the Church of Scientology with a wacky weapon -
Religion News Blog
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desecrate a cemetery
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While most of the graves are lovingly tended, many others are overgrown, unkempt, and desecrated.
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And she, knowing that the shrine has been desecrated, is filled with righteous indignation, though generally as blind as he is to the true cause of what has occurred.
Married Love: or, Love in Marriage
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A tombstone standing over a grave for over 100 years was desecrated and pieces of the headstone were scattered over the area.
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But there are some who pray the Sabbath prayers and recite the Kiddush and then go desecrate the Sabbath by doing work that is forbidden by the Torah and by rabbinic enactment.
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They've ruined our economy, apparently seized our oil and desecrated our sacred sites and our museums.
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There's plenty of narcissism triggers in his background - the highly respected, distant father, whose values he gleefully desecrates even as he treats him with an almost somber respect.
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However, a Council spokesman said the roots of the trees that had been felled were damaged, and it was not correct to state that they had set out to desecrate the area.
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And yeah, there's folks that this is the "very word of a deity" spoken to a guy in Arabia long ago, but if freedom speech and religion means anything, it means the freedom to ridicule, insult, and yes, "desecrate" whatever others think is "holy.
Notes in Samsara
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It is depressing for teachers and pupils alike to see their working environment desecrated by the moronic minority.
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But to claim this blogger "desecrated" the photo is ridiculous.
Palin hits back at 'malicious' photo
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Irrigate and desecrate, we can always sell telstra and call the battler - mate.
Telstra is saving the environment
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I'm sure "desecrated", if s/he is a real person, never made a joke that could hurt someone else's feelings.
Body Parts, Cadavers and Rochester Ties, Oh My!
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This has not been the case recently, as mindless youths disrespect, desecrate and defile the church and its surrounding area.
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We made little houses from reams of sailcloth and we took turns keeping the fire lest wild animals should want to desecrate the body.
Flower boat
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A standard definition for desecrate is to profane, to abuse, to violate the sacredness of.
On “Desecration”
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The resolution is aimed at condemning attempts to heroize the Nazi movement and former Waffen SS members and desecrate monuments to the fighters against Nazism.
RIA Novosti
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The dictionary won't help me on this; they all define the word desecrate as strictly a religious term that you might apply to the destruction of objects found in a church or synagogue, certainly not to a secular object like an American flag.
Archive 2006-06-01
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Well, it's hurtful to us that someone would desecrate her grave.
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About 20 headstones were desecrated at the Church cemetery between Monday, February 2, and Friday, February 6.
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The definitions for "desecrate" revolve around things that are sacred (i.e. derive their status from religious traditions, not civic or governmental).
Archive 2005-06-01
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First, if ten Jews are present, he must give up his life rather than commit any sin, if he is being forced to sin only to desecrate the Torah.
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The invading army desecrated this holy place when they camped here.
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The mob entered the synagogue, desecrated the biggest house of worship and defiled the Scrolls of the Law.
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Other new signs posted to describe scenery have been desecrated or struck down.
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Jewish law requires every Jew to give up his life rather than desecrate the Name of Hashem in public.
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Vandals have desecrated graves at a cemetery described as having some of the finest funerary art in the North of England.
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And why, when they live in one of the most beautiful parts of the British Isles do they want to desecrate the view with this abhorrence?
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Were the images destroyed, desecrated or mutilated because they were potent or impotent?
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When someone breaks a circle or desecrates sacred space it is causing disharmony.
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If you desecrate the dead in this fashion you will know everlasting torment.
TANK OF SERPENTS
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I could not believe my eyes at seeing the American flag desecrated with symbols of the swastika.
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She shouldn't have desecrated the picture of a religious leader.
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That's the thing being "desecrated" by the implicit legal smear that's painted on gay couples by these unconstitutional laws of exclusion.
Anonymous call, a poison pen
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Prince Charles today told of his ‘deep upset’ after vandals desecrated a Bradford war memorial which he had rededicated only months before.
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If we desacralize Creation, we desacralize God; if we desecrate nature, we desecrate God.
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If you desecrate the dead in this fashion you will know everlasting torment.
TANK OF SERPENTS
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To desecrate a holy spring is considered profanity.
