desecrate

How to use desecrate in a sentence

• By testing them for drugs, police “desecrated” Ta’Naja’s ashes, Barnes said in the lawsuit filed against the city of Springfield and six Springfield police officers.

  Police told a man a container in his car tested positive for drugs. It was his daughter’s ashes. | Andrea Salcedo | May 21, 2021 | Washington Post

• John Walker, when surrounded by people filming his deeds, makes a very different choice and—this cannot be emphasized enough—desecrates the symbolism of the shield by decapitating an innocent man with it.

  All Your Falcon and the Winter Soldier Finale Questions, Answered | Eliana Dockterman | April 23, 2021 | Time

• They took selfies as they smashed windows and doors, desecrated sacred objects and paraded through the Capitol rotunda.

  My Father Wrote 'Strange Fruit.' The Capitol Rioters Had a Lot in Common With the Lynch Mobs That Inspired That Song | Robert Meeropol | March 5, 2021 | Time

• Scientists suspect the mud wrap may have been used to restore the body’s shape after it was desecrated, potentially by tomb robbers.

  Unusual mud shell covers an Egyptian mummy | Maria Temming | February 26, 2021 | Science News For Students

• Leg fractures and other damage to the mummy’s body hint that the mud wrap may have been used to restore the body after it was desecrated, potentially by tomb robbers.

  An ancient Egyptian mummy was wrapped in an unusual mud shell | Maria Temming | February 3, 2021 | Science News