Example sentences for: blasphemy

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

  • In this comprehensive study, Timothy Jay, who teachers at North Adams State College, in Massachusetts, divides his subject into several subcategories: Cursing, Profanity, Blasphemy, Taboo, Obscenity, Vulgarity, Slang, Epithets, and Scatology.

  • "As you progress down the evil path, you have to do things that are more and more distasteful, from blasphemy to striking a praying angel.

  • I'm afraid this is kind of a one joke question, and the joke is cheap and easy blasphemy.

  • In some cases, murder, mayhem, and, to borrow a tasteless euphemism from social conflict, linguistic cleansing have been aroused by language—not by vituperation, cursing, and blasphemy but simply by being in the wrong place at the wrong time speaking a particular language or dialect.

  • Whereas we could get hotter and hotter under the collar about the ethics of displaying one man's collection of new art in a public institution, of public subsidy for art the public is goaded into hating, of how blasphemy has become an article of faith in an institutionalized avant garde, etc. etc.


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