Example Sentences

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A red-handled fly swatter reposes by his desk; few insects have profaned its orderly surface without becoming casualties of the U.S.

From Time Magazine Archive

During the two days and nights that Marshal Ferdinand Foch lay in state, last week?beneath the Emperor Napoleon's tremendous Arch of Triumph?the government suppressed and darkened every electric sign which might have profaned the scene.

From Time Magazine Archive

I have profaned all his scriptures and confounded 304 all his doctrines, until I think now the only boon he prays for is deliverance.

From The Jessica Letters: An Editor's Romance by More, Paul Elmer

Was it likely that, being there on such an errand, he should have profaned it?

From Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts by Maclaren, Alexander

I have profaned and lowered myself by taking a share in it all, and forgetting——Well, it's done now.

From Uncle's dream; And The Permanent Husband by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor