How to Use obscenity in a Sentence

obscenity

noun
  • The author uses obscenity to make a point about the culture.
  • Our clothes were drenched to the point that obscenity charges could be levied.
    — Travis M. Andrews, Washington Post, 15 July 2019
  • Arthur yells an obscenity in the streets.
    — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2025
  • One agent is heard on video shouting an obscenity as a child jumps out of the horse’s path.
    — Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2021
  • But there’s more than one kind of obscenity in the world, and more than one kind of assault.
    — Pat Beall, Orlando Sentinel, 7 July 2024
  • An obscenity or two may escape the lips of many who covet a free press these days.
    — Steven Zeitchik, latimes.com, 30 June 2017
  • Yet a whiff of pretext surrounds more than a few of the cries of obscenity.
    — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2023
  • The man responded that the deputy should pay his bill and used an obscenity.
    — Kate Brumback, Star Tribune, 27 Apr. 2021
  • Each could face six months to three years in prison if convicted of obscenity.
    — Sara Pagones, NOLA.com, 8 Oct. 2020
  • Fill the gym with choice obscenities to push through those last few minutes of misery.
    — Sarah Rense, Esquire, 15 May 2017
  • The girls wore trash bags over bikinis and wrestled on tarps with boys yelling obscenities.
    — OregonLive.com, 22 Dec. 2017
  • They were both arrested the same day on charges of obscenity.
    — Fernando Ramirez, Houston Chronicle, 13 July 2018
  • There’s an obscenity with pearls.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 6 Mar. 2026
  • One modest step would be to enforce laws against obscenity that are already on the books.
    — Nr Editors, National Review, 23 Jan. 2020
  • As the protest heated up, some members of the crowd shouted obscenities at agents.
    — Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2025
  • The obscenity is absurd, each hook sincere, and every bang well worth the buck.
    — Wesley Morris, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2017
  • The power to change this obscenity is in the hands of Israel.
    — Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 11 Aug. 2025
  • Richard howled obscenities at three officers who were talking to him through the locked door.
    — Carol Marbin Miller, Miami Herald, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Peirez used obscenities when complaining about being in the back of the plane.
    — Marwa Eltagouri, Washington Post, 18 Feb. 2018
  • At the same time, a mob of angry white people snarls, yells obscenities, and hurls glass bottles at them.
    — Ira Porter, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Feb. 2024
  • The problem with billionaires was not just the obscenity of their wealth.
    — Farhad Manjoo New York Times, Star Tribune, 12 May 2021
  • Forster didn’t publish the novel in his time because of obscenity laws.
    — Sarah Larson, New Yorker, 19 May 2017
  • The football industry is not the set of an adult film in which all obscenities are allowed.
    — SI.com, 2 Sep. 2017
  • Some of us yelled obscenities instead.
    — Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The group pushed back and went to court several times to overturn the obscenity rulings.
    — Victor Oquendo, ABC News, 14 July 2023
  • Of course, keep in mind that the definition of obscenity back then was pretty vague.
    — Josh Fischman, Scientific American, 10 May 2023
  • As the pair approached a car, a loud bang is heard, followed by an unidentified male yelling an obscenity.
    — Graham Kates, CBS News, 30 Aug. 2020
  • The man puts his arm around Sisolak, then insults him and calls him an obscenity inches from his face.
    — NBC News, 1 Mar. 2022
  • That fight spurred obscenity charges against the arts center and its director, but a jury threw out those charges.
    — Victoria Moorwood, Cincinnati Enquirer, 14 Dec. 2025
  • There have been other instances in which obscenities found their way into the Times.
    — Adrienne Lafrance, The Atlantic, 28 July 2017

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