Example Sentences

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Netflix needs to decide whether it is cinema’s champion or its desecrator because it can’t easily be both.

From The Guardian • Oct. 29, 2019

The audience filed out denouncing the Hearstling as a "desecrator," a "barbarian," a "vandal."

From Time Magazine Archive

For a brief spell I would rule beside a man who is fit to be a king but who is a desecrator.

From Graustark by McCutcheon, George Barr

Only for this desecrator of the royal dead that morrow never came, as was discovered afterwards.

From Smith and the Pharaohs, and other Tales by Haggard, Henry Rider

The one solitary chair was of that cheap construction which is meant to creak warningly when sat upon by light people, and to resolve itself into match-wood when the desecrator is heavy.

From The Young Trawler by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)