How to Use sacrilege in a Sentence

sacrilege

noun
  • They accused him of sacrilege.
  • They accused him of committing a sacrilege.
  • This kind of thing, sacrilege when a lot of us were growing up around here, is more common nowadays.
    — Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 7 July 2024
  • And some Europeans found the riff on Dante its own species of sacrilege.
    — Nathan Heller, Vogue, 29 Aug. 2023
  • The only thing that’s not allowed in the chili is greens or vegetables of any kind — that would be sacrilege.
    — cleveland, 1 July 2020
  • Some consider this sacrilege, the chile masking the flavor of the fish.
    — Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2018
  • But sometimes movies need a little sacrilege to achieve their full potential.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 13 Sep. 2024
  • Turning it into a marketing tool to be packaged and sold is a sacrilege.
    — Jim Stiles, The Denver Post, 8 Apr. 2017
  • As some of us see it, this is the political equivalent of sacrilege.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 13 Feb. 2023
  • The approach is designed to keep anyone from drinking warm beer, sacrilege in Brazil.
    — Jack Nicas, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Dec. 2021
  • That might sound like sacrilege to those who wield patriotism like a sledgehammer.
    — Ken Makin, Christian Science Monitor, 14 Feb. 2025
  • The leather sold at Zara or H&M or other mass-market places is kind of a sacrilege.
    — Sarah Moroz, The Cut, 23 Oct. 2017
  • Described that way, naturally the project sounds like a sacrilege.
    — James Fallows, The Atlantic, 5 May 2015
  • That sounds like sacrilege, to say that all the impressive achievements of deep learning amount to just fitting a curve to data.
    — Kevin Hartnett, The Atlantic, 19 May 2018
  • And for many years, the Kalash have been wary about the threat from Islamist militants who see their faith as sacrilege.
    — New York Times, 27 Dec. 2020
  • At the climax, the priest destroys the altar in an act of horrifying sacrilege.
    — Aja Romano, Vox, 25 Aug. 2018
  • The man was beaten to death for allegedly trying to commit an act of sacrilege at the holiest shrine of the Sikh faith.
    — NBC News, 20 Dec. 2021
  • The way the presence of cameras breaks up the comfortable rhythm of live performance is almost sacrilege.
    — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 May 2022
  • For those who follow in Pesce’s bright shadow, his cheerful sacrilege is an invitation to go wild.
    — Matthew Schneier, Curbed, 14 Sep. 2021
  • To belittle or assault God's creatures is thus to be guilty of blasphemy and sacrilege.
    — Shai Held, CNN, 29 May 2017
  • Coming from somebody who writes about craft beer for the Free Press, this might sound like sacrilege, but there are a couple of reasons for this.
    — Brian Manzullo, Detroit Free Press, 18 Jan. 2023
  • On a warm March day—the kind that makes being indoors feel sacrilege—we were told to pack up for at least two weeks away and leave campus as soon as possible.
    — Grace McCarty, SELF, 9 Oct. 2024
  • The Ninth is one of the closest things the classical canon has to a holy text; tinkering with it no doubt amounts to sacrilege for some listeners.
    — Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 16 July 2023
  • Liberius severely rebuked theguardians of the holy place for not having prevented this unheard-of sacrilege.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 1 Mar. 2013
  • From the minute the trailer dropped, the Austenite gatekeepers were crying sacrilege, and sure, this will rankle lovers of the novel.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 July 2022
  • But by then, religious and political leaders from around the world condemned the image, some calling it a sacrilege.
    — Miami Herald, 23 Apr. 2026
  • When staples are scarce, to waste them is sacrilege, and figuring out how to take care of your family translates understandably into fear of change.
    — Clara Wang, refinery29.com, 2 Dec. 2020
  • Religious and political leaders from around the world condemned the image, some calling it a sacrilege.
    — Lauren Costantino, Miami Herald, 13 Apr. 2026
  • Doing anything else would be sacrilege to the faithful, as well as false to the friendship that exists at the center of this Broadway behemoth.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 18 Nov. 2025
  • How would an electric stove appear in a Nancy Meyers movie other than as a sacrilege along the order of linoleum at Versailles?
    — Ginia Bellafante, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2023

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