is desecrating
- present progressive of desecrate (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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It helps that the award-winning Icelandic original was in itself no masterpiece, meaning there's little sense that anyone here is desecrating a work of art.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 14, 2012
As Richard Brody, the New Yorker critic and blogger, trenchantly tweeted: “It's not as if is desecrating Herrmann's music; rather, it's wearing it, like a kid clomping around in Dad's shoes.”
From Slate ● Jan. 24, 2012
"And the party with the yellow nose, who is desecrating the front," put in the butterfly's companion.
From From a Bench in Our Square by Adams, Samuel Hopkins
Aunt Paula is broader than I. 'It's part of the truth,' she said, 'that woman is desecrating the work, but she's serving in her way.'
From The House of Mystery An Episode in the Career of Rosalie Le Grange, Clairvoyant by Irwin, Will
She will tame him down to mediocrity, never realizing what she is desecrating, what she is robbing some other better-fitted woman of.
From The Song of the Wolf by Mayer, Frank
