How to Use desecration in a Sentence

desecration

noun
  • Ipsen was at first appalled by the desecration of the pristine desert.
    — Mark Pratt, latimes.com, 7 May 2018
  • Against desecration of our flag bill 4.
    — Gary Franks, Hartford Courant, 4 Apr. 2026
  • He was charged with murder and desecration of a human corpse.
    — Fox News, 27 Oct. 2021
  • Sending human remains there can thus be seen as an act of desecration.
    — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 5 Jan. 2024
  • The desecration of pizza seems to have no limits.
    — Inga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Simply put, their acts are a desecration of the pursuit of knowledge.
    — arkansasonline.com, 18 Mar. 2025
  • He is charged as an adult with first-degree murder and desecration of a human corpse and arson.
    — Fox News, 19 June 2021
  • All of them condemn the desecration of the Capitol and pray for a way to find common ground.
    — Star Tribune, 7 Feb. 2021
  • And growing up, our younger people, know that desecration or digging up a burial site is not the thing to do.
    — Amy Yurkanin | [email protected], al, 21 July 2023
  • For them, the desecration of the courtyard came from the desire of some to sell it, but also from her cameras.
    — Trinidad Barleycorn, Variety, 25 Apr. 2023
  • The mob kept moving, marching toward their next site of desecration.
    — Lauren Rankin, refinery29.com, 17 Jan. 2021
  • The idea was that taxing a dead person was some sort of unspeakable desecration.
    — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 18 June 2021
  • Seven months later, Cheng Chung-tai faces a charge of flag desecration and as many as three years in jail.
    — David Tweed, Bloomberg.com, 7 June 2017
  • Outrage at the desecration of the sacred space spread throughout the region.
    — Mary Christine Bader, Star Tribune, 14 May 2021
  • Cabernets, merlots and syrahs have all these blendings going on, and that’s a good thing, but to blend pinot noir would be a desecration.
    — Mike Dunne, sacbee, 20 Dec. 2017
  • The root for challah, ח–ל–ל, also bears a striking resemblance to the word chillul, which means desecration.
    — Benjamin, Longreads, 20 May 2022
  • The two can’t say whether the desecration was done purposely or because of ignorance.
    — Tyrone Beason, Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2023
  • To Michael Hirsch, the desecration of hundreds of graves was a shanda, a shame, a ghoulish crime.
    — Maria Cramer, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2025
  • The two also will face a charge of desecration of a human being for allegedly putting the baby in the dumpster.
    — Warren Kulo | [email protected], al, 10 Mar. 2023
  • The film follows a group of American men who venture into the desert to dig up the corpse of a witch and pay a price for their desecration.
    — Jd Linville, Variety, 1 Apr. 2022
  • The boy was charged as an adult this week with first-degree murder and desecration of a human corpse stemming from the March 6 killing.
    — Chris Harris, PEOPLE.com, 17 June 2021
  • Managers documented as well the sheer scale of the desecration of the building itself.
    — Peter Baker, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Feb. 2021
  • Police described the recent throwing of fireworks from inside the mosque, at least one of which caused a small fire in a carpet, as an act of desecration.
    — Andrew Carey, Abeer Salman and Hadas Gold, CNN, 21 Apr. 2022
  • With the desecration of Brasilia, the far right finally hit a modernist target.
    — Curbed, 9 Jan. 2023
  • But the desecration of Sava’s body wasn’t to be the final tumultuous moment in his story.
    — Elspeth Velten, Vogue, 1 Nov. 2017
  • It was based on a lie, fed by myth, and culminated in violence, in vandalism, and in the desecration of the people's house.
    — Jeremy Barr, Star Tribune, 7 Jan. 2021
  • In Los Angeles this past June, flag desecration was rampant.
    — Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Przybycien is now charged with first-degree murder and desecration of a human body in the death of Jchandra Brown.
    — Ruth Brown, idahostatesman, 17 May 2017
  • To be here on the frontlines and to see the desecration of our sacred sites literally erased from the record books is damaging enough to one’s soul and existence.
    — National Geographic, 23 Sep. 2016
  • Iraq’s prime minister has cut diplomatic ties with Sweden in protest over the desecration of the Quran in that country.
    — Ali Jabar and Jari Tanner, BostonGlobe.com, 22 July 2023

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