Example sentences for: blaspheming

How can you use “blaspheming” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The whole damn film is a scant 80 minutes, and its second half features, among other things, Satan's soulful "Up There" number (please oh please let them do this at the Academy Awards), Saddam's pleas for sex, "Kyle's Mom Is a Bitch" with a multinational chorus, Kenny's trek through the underworld, Cartman's obscenity chip, the blaspheming French resistance fighter, and the staggeringly brilliant medley on the eve of Armageddon--not to mention Winona Ryder's best performance ever (courtesy of Minnie Driver).

  • Although the NYT 's off-lead reports that any U.S.-Iran thaw is still a long way off, LAT 's front, and inside stories at all the other papers, report that Iran's president Mohammed Khatemi told reporters yesterday that the fatwa issued against Salman Rushdie for blaspheming Islam was "completely finished."

  • The other big story in Italy was the visit of President Mohammed Khatami of Iran, the first by an Iranian leader to the West since 1979, which was soured by the coincidental, simultaneous presence in the country of Salman Rushdie, the British writer condemned to death 10 years ago by Ayatollah Khomeini for allegedly blaspheming against the Muslim religion in his book The Satanic Verses . While Khatami was in Rome, Rushdie was in Turin receiving an honorary degree from the university there, to the embarrassment and anger of the Italian government, which had not been informed.


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